The
People of Krakow
Officially,
the citizenry of the city of Krakow is is put at some 760,000
but the figure leaves out thousands of actual residents who
don't bother to register as such, illegal immigrants, and
about 100,000 students. At the same time the
population
of entire metropolitan
area, i.e. the Krakow proper together with its outer suburbs
and satellite towns, totals some 1,5 million people. And the headcount within
the 100-km (62-mile) radius approaches nine
million.
The city’s
residents are solidly Polish; nevertheless
several thousand foreigners live more or less
permanently here. In Poland the denizens of Krakow enjoy
a reputation of meticulous and frugal folk, a bit
reserved but life-loving.
Krakow's population is swollen,
notably in summer, by over four millions visitors
a year on tourist or business trips.
Sex
and age
in Krakow
In
Krakow there are slightly more women,
400,000-plus among the registered citizens, than men.
The average age of the city dwellers’ is 37.5
years, with over 60 percent of the population being
under 45, whereas the number of elders of 65 or
more amounts to 14.9 percent. Currently the city has
negative birth rate of –0.04 percent.
On
average a male resident of Krakow lives 73.5 years compared to
80.6 years for a female.
Education
and labor market in Krakow
About
twenty percent of
Krakow residents can boast an academic degree of MA or an
equivalent, while 180,000-plus students attend the city’s
21 institutions of higher education.
The unemployment
rate in Krakow ranks among the lowest in Poland and it has
slipped below three percent in 2007.
Satisfaction
factor.
Residents
of Krakow generally enjoy living in the city. The Urban Audit
Perception Survey, conducted in November 2006 within the
Flash-Eurobarometer project of the European Union, has found
that 97 percent of the Krakow’s population are satisfied to
live here. Only residents of Groningen in The Netherlands
voiced such high level of satisfaction with their place /by
comparison the ratio of contented citizens was 60 percent or
so in Athens and Naples, nearly 80 percent in London, and some
85 percent in Lisbon – to name just few of the 75 surveyed
cities in the EU, Croatia, and Turkey/.
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