Editing Reykjavík (section)

==Demographics==
{{Main|Demographics of Iceland}}
<!--[[File:Vesturbær .jpg|alt=This residential area is located in front of the ocean.|thumb|Residential area of Reykjavík]]-->{{Historical populations
| percentages = pagr
| footnote = Source: [[Statistics Iceland]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://px.hagstofa.is/pxen/pxweb/en/Ibuar/Ibuar__mannfjoldi__2_byggdir__sveitarfelogeldra/MAN02120.px/ |title=Population by municipalities 1901-1990|date=|website=statice.is|publisher=[[Statistics Iceland]]|access-date=20 March 2025}}</ref><ref name="pop_stats" />
|1901 | 6667
|1910 | 11600
|1920 | 17679
|1930 | 28304
|1940 | 38196
|1950 | 56251
|1960 | 72407
|1970 | 81693
|1980 | 83766
|1990 | 97569
|2000 | 109887
|2010 | 118326
|2020 | 126549
|2025 | 138772
}}

Reykjavík is by far the largest and most populous settlement in Iceland. The municipality of Reykjavík had a population of 138,772 on 1 January 2025, comprising 35.6% of the country's population. The [[Capital Region (Iceland)|Capital Region]], which includes the capital and six municipalities around it, was home to 249,054 people; that is about 64% of the country's population.<ref name="pop_stats" /><ref name="pop_regions_stats" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Statistics Iceland: The largest population increase ever |url=https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/inhabitants/the-population-on-1-january-2023/ |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=Statistics Iceland}}</ref>

On 1 January 2024, of the city's population of 136,894, immigrants of the first and second generation numbered 33,731 (24.6%), increasing from 22,311 (17.8%) in 2019, 12,352 (10.4%) in 2008 and 3,106 (2.9%) in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://px.hagstofa.is/pxen/pxweb/en/Ibuar/Ibuar__mannfjoldi__3_bakgrunnur__Uppruni/MAN43005.px/?rxid=3f5eaff4-066e-4396-a173-54fcd974b67e |title=Immigrants by sex and municipality 1 January 1996-2024|date=1 January 2024|website=statice.is|publisher=[[Statistics Iceland]]|access-date=20 March 2025}}</ref> The most common foreign citizens are [[Polish people|Poles]], [[Lithuanians]], [[Ukrainians]] and [[Romanians]]. About 64.8% of the city's foreign residents originate in [[European Union]] and [[European Free Trade Association|EFTA]] member states, and around 48.9% are from the new member states of the EU, mainly former [[Eastern Bloc]] countries, [[2004 enlargement of the European Union|which joined in 2004]], [[2007 enlargement of the European Union|2007]] and [[2013 enlargement of the European Union|2013]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://px.hagstofa.is/pxen/pxweb/en/Ibuar/Ibuar__mannfjoldi__3_bakgrunnur__Rikisfang/MAN04203.px/?rxid=3f5eaff4-066e-4396-a173-54fcd974b67e |title=Population by sex, municipality and citizenship 1 January 1998-2024|date=1 January 2024|website=statice.is|publisher=[[Statistics Iceland]]|access-date=20 March 2025}}</ref>

Children of foreign origin form a more considerable minority in the city's schools: as many as a third in places.<ref name="Reykjavík">{{cite web|url=http://reykjavik.is/Portaldata/1/Resources/leikskolasvid/reykjavik_fjolmenningarborg_barna.pdf|date=18 January 2008|title=Reykjavík – fjölmenningarborg barna|access-date=7 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929190032/http://reykjavik.is/Portaldata/1/Resources/leikskolasvid/reykjavik_fjolmenningarborg_barna.pdf|archive-date=29 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The city is also visited by thousands of tourists, students, and other temporary residents, at times outnumbering natives in the city centre.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visir.is/breskir-ferdamenn-fjolmennastir-sem-fyrr/article/2011708089945 |title=Vísir – Breskir ferðamenn fjölmennastir sem fyrr |date=8 August 2011 |publisher=Visir.is |access-date=15 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117120629/http://www.visir.is/breskir-ferdamenn-fjolmennastir-sem-fyrr/article/2011708089945 |archive-date=17 January 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

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|+ class="nowrap" | Residents by citizenship (1 January 1998 – 2018)<ref>{{cite web
 |url= https://px.hagstofa.is/pxen/pxweb/en/Ibuar/Ibuar__mannfjoldi__3_bakgrunnur__Rikisfang/MAN04203.px/table/tableViewLayout1/?rxid=14202eb5-fbb3-434c-b7b3-358551db3e07 |title=Population by sex, municipality and citizenship 1 January 1998–2018
 |date=1 January 2018
|website=www.hagstofa.is
 |publisher=[[Statistics Iceland]]
 |access-date=13 June 2019
}}</ref>
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!rowspan="2"|Citizenship{{ref label|Citizenship|a|a}}
!colspan="3"|2018
!colspan="3"|2008
!colspan="3"|1998
|-
!Number
!% of total<br />population
!% of foreign<br />citizens
!Number
!% of total<br />population
!% of foreign<br />citizens
!Number
!% of total<br />population
!% of foreign<br />citizens
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Iceland}} || 110,445 || 87.63% || || 109,111 || 91.82% || ||  104,920  || 97.74% ||
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Poland}} || 5,526 || 4.38% || 35.43% || 3,146 || 2.65% || 32.38% || 95 || 0.09% || 3.92%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Lithuania}} || 1,733 || 1.37% || 11.11% || 811 || 0.68% || 8.35%  || 8 || 0.01% || 0.33%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Latvia}} || 595 || 0.47% || 3.82% || 217 || 0.18% || 2.23% || 1 || 0.00% || 0.04%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|United Kingdom}} || 487 || 0.39% || 3.12% || 222 || 0.19% || 2.28% || 153 || 0.14% || 6.32%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Spain}} || 482 || 0.38% || 3.09% || 87 || 0.07% || 0.90% || 41 || 0.04% || 1.69%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Germany}} || 481 || 0.38% || 3.08% || 450 || 0.38% || 4.63% || 148 || 0.14% || 6.11%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|United States}} || 420 || 0.33% || 2.69% || 331 || 0.28% || 3.41% || 313 || 0.29% || 12.93%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Romania}} || 419 || 0.33% || 2.69% || 50 || 0.04% || 0.51% || 4 || 0.00% || 0.17%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Philippines}} || 409|| 0.32% || 2.62% || 453 || 0.38% || 4.66% || 110 || 0.10% || 4.54%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Portugal}} || 393 || 0.31% || 2.52% || 278 || 0.23% || 2.86% || 31 || 0.03% || 1.28%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|France}} || 371 || 0.29% || 2.38% || 145 || 0.12% || 1.49% || 71 || 0.07% || 2.93%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Denmark}}{{ref label|Greenland and Faroe Islands|b|b}} || 354 || 0.28% || 2.27% || 419 || 0.35% || 4.31% || 358 || 0.33% || 14.79%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Vietnam}} || 243 || 0.19% || 1.56% || 207 || 0.17% || 2.13% || 43 || 0.04% || 1.78%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Italy}} || 242 || 0.19% || 1.55% || 80 || 0.07% || 0.82% || 17 || 0.02% || 0.70%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Thailand}} || 216 || 0.17% || 1.38% || 286 || 0.24% || 2.94% || 155 || 0.14% || 6.40%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Czech Republic}} || 176 || 0.14% || 1.13% || 72 || 0.06% || 0.74% || 8 || 0.01% || 0.33%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Hungary}} || 172 || 0.14% || 1.10% || 48 || 0.04% || 0.49% || 3 || 0.00% || 0.12%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|China}} || 164 || 0.13% || 1.05% || 144 || 0.12% || 1.48% || 40 || 0.04% || 1.65%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Sweden}} || 156 || 0.12% || 1.00% || 201 || 0.17% || 2.07% || 117 || 0.11% || 4.83%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Croatia}} || 153 || 0.12% || 0.98% || 18 || 0.02% || 0.19% || 8 || 0.01% || 0.33%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Slovakia}} || 127 || 0.10% || 0.81% || 91 || 0.08% || 0.94% || 3 || 0.00% || 0.12%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Norway}} || 120 || 0.10% || 0.77% || 141 || 0.12% || 1.45% || 154 || 0.14% || 6.36%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Bulgaria}} || 115 || 0.09% || 0.74% || 57 || 0.05% || 0.59% || 17 || 0.02% || 0.70%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Russia}} || 110 || 0.09% || 0.71% || 109 || 0.09% || 1.12% ||  32 || 0.03% || 1.32%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Syria}} || 109 || 0.09% || 0.70% || 7 || 0.01% || 0.07% || 3 || 0.00% || 0.12%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Netherlands}} || 100 || 0.08% || 0.64% || 75 || 0.06% || 0.77% || 28 || 0.03% || 1.16%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Ukraine}} || 81 || 0.06% || 0.52% || 89 || 0.07% || 0.92% || 9 || 0.01% || 0.37%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Canada}} || 80 || 0.06% || 0.51% || 63 || 0.05% || 0.65% || 35 || 0.03% || 1.45%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|India}} || 73 || 0.06% || 0.47% || 86 || 0.07% || 0.89% || 10 || 0.01% || 0.41%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Greece}} || 60 || 0.05% || 0.38% || 4 || 0.00% || 0.04% || 3 || 0.00% || 0.12%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Ireland}} || 60 || 0.05% || 0.38% || 25 || 0.02% || 0.26% || 13 || 0.01% || 0.54%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Finland}} || 59 || 0.05% || 0.38% || 62 || 0.05% || 0.64% || 51 || 0.05% || 2.11%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Iran}} || 56 || 0.04% || 0.36% || 16 || 0.01% || 0.16% || 5 || 0.00% || 0.21%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Morocco}} || 53|| 0.04% || 0.34% || 54 || 0.05% || 0.56% || 22 || 0.02% || 0.91%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Afghanistan}} || 50 || 0.04% || 0.32% || 1 || 0.00% || 0.01% || 0 || 0.00% || 0.00% 
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Austria}} || 49 || 0.04% || 0.31% || 45 || 0.04% || 0.46% || 17 || 0.02% || 0.70% 
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Switzerland}} || 48|| 0.04% || 0.31% || 32 || 0.03% || 0.33% || 11 || 0.01% || 0.45%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Japan}} || 45 || 0.04% || 0.29% || 34 || 0.03% || 0.35% || 14 || 0.01% || 0.58% 
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Serbia}}{{ref label|Serbia|c|c}} || 43 || 0.03% || 0.28% || 69 || 0.06% || 0.71% || || ||  
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Iraq}} || 42 || 0.03% || 0.27% || 2 || 0.00% || 0.02% || 4 || 0.00% || 0.17% 
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Mexico}} || 40 || 0.03% || 0.26% || 15 || 0.01% || 0.15% || 12 || 0.01% || 0.50%   
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Nigeria}} || 40 || 0.03% || 0.26% || 25 || 0.02% || 0.26% || 3 || 0.00% || 0.12%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Albania}} || 39 || 0.03% || 0.25% || 15 || 0.01% || 0.15% || 1 || 0.00% || 0.04% 
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Belgium}} || 38 || 0.03% || 0.24% || 26 || 0.02% || 0.27% || 8 || 0.01% || 0.33%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Australia}} || 37 || 0.03% || 0.24% || 28 || 0.02% || 0.29% || 9 || 0.01% || 0.37%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Brazil}} || 37 || 0.03% || 0.24% || 26 || 0.02% || 0.27% || 8 || 0.01% || 0.33%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Estonia}} || 34 || 0.03% || 0.22% || 40 || 0.03% || 0.41% || 5 || 0.00% || 0.21%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Colombia}} || 32 || 0.03% || 0.21% || 72 || 0.06% || 0.74% || 10 || 0.01% || 0.41%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Pakistan}} || 30 || 0.02% || 0.19% || 6 || 0.01% || 0.06% || 4 || 0.00% || 0.17%  
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Slovenia}} || 25 || 0.02% || 0.16% || 6 || 0.01% || 0.06% || 3 || 0.00% || 0.12%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Kosovo}}{{ref label|Kosovo|d|d}} || 24 || 0.02% || 0.15% ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Kenya}} || 23 || 0.02% || 0.15% || 23 || 0.02% || 0.24% || 2 || 0.00% || 0.08%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Ethiopia}} || 22 || 0.02% || 0.14% || 35 || 0.03% || 0.36% || 1 || 0.00% || 0.04%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Nepal}} || 20 || 0.02% || 0.13% || 40 || 0.03% || 0.41% || 2 || 0.00% || 0.08%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | {{flagicon|Federal Republic of Yugoslavia}} [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]{{ref label|Yugoslavia|e|e}} ||  || || ||  ||  ||  || 65 || 0.06% || 2.68%  
|-
|style="text-align:left" | ''Other Asia'' || 143 || 0.11% || 0.92% || 165 || 0.14% || 1.70% || 33 || 0.03% || 1.36%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | ''Other Africa'' || 129 || 0.10% || 0.73% || 88 || 0.07% || 0.91% || 40 || 0.04% || 1.65%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | ''Other Americas'' || 104 || 0.08% || 0.67% || 111 || 0.09% || 1.14% || 39 || 0.04% || 1.61%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | ''Other Europe''{{ref label|Other Europe|f|f}} || 41 || 0.03% || 0.26% || 223 || 0.19% || 2.29%  || 81 || 0.08% || 3.35%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | ''[[Statelessness|Stateless]]'' || 38 || 0.03% || 0.27% || 58 || 0.05% || 0.60% || 2 || 0.00% || 0.08%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | ''Other Oceania'' || 11 || 0.01% || 0.07% || 10 || 0.01% || 0.10% || 0 || 0.00% || 0.00%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | ''Other EU and EFTA'' || 8 || 0.01% || 0.08% || 5 || 0.00% || 0.05%  || 0 || 0.00% || 0.00%
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''Total: {{flag|EU}} and [[European Free Trade Association|EFTA]]'''{{ref label|Nordic 1|g|g}} || '''12,583''' || '''9.98%''' || '''80.68%''' || '''6,835'''{{ref label|EU 1|h|h}} || '''5.75%''' || '''70.35%''' || '''1,258'''{{ref label|EU 2|i|i}} || '''1.17%''' || '''51.96%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''Total: [[Asia]]''' || '''1,580''' || '''1.25%''' || '''10.13%''' || '''1,407''' || '''1.18%''' || '''14.48%''' || '''421''' || '''0.39%''' || '''17.39%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''Total: [[Nordic countries]]'''{{ref label|Nordic 2|j|j}} || '''689''' || '''0.55%''' || '''4.42%''' || '''823''' || '''0.69%''' || '''8.47%''' || '''680''' || '''0.63%''' || '''28.09%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''Total: [[Northern America]]''' || '''500''' || '''0.40%''' || '''3.21%''' || '''394''' || '''0.33%''' || '''4.06%''' || '''348''' || '''0.32%''' || '''14.37%'''
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|style="text-align:left" | '''Total: [[Europe]] outside of<br />[[European Union|EU]] and [[European Free Trade Association|EFTA]]''' || '''338''' || '''0.27%''' || '''2.17%''' || '''523''' || '''0.44%''' || '''5.38%''' || '''278''' || '''0.26%''' || '''11.48%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''Total: [[Africa]]''' || '''296''' || '''0.23%''' || '''1.90%'''  || '''237''' || '''0.20%''' || '''2.44%''' || '''73''' || '''0.07%''' || '''3.02%'''
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|style="text-align:left" | '''Total: [[Latin America and the Caribbean|Latin America<br />and the Caribbean]]''' || '''213''' || '''0.17%''' || '''1.37%''' || '''224''' || '''0.19%''' || '''2.31%''' || '''69''' || '''0.06%''' || '''2.85%'''
|-
|style="text-align:left" | '''Total: [[Oceania]]''' || '''48''' || '''0.04%''' || '''0.33%''' || '''38''' || '''0.03%''' || '''0.39%''' || '''9''' || '''0.01%''' || '''0.37%'''
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|style="text-align:left" | '''Total foreign citizens''' || '''15,596''' || '''12.37%''' || '''100%'''  || '''9,716''' || '''8.18%''' || '''100%''' ||| '''2,421''' || '''2.26%''' || '''100%'''
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|style="text-align:left" | '''Total population''' || '''126,041''' || '''100%''' ||  || '''118,827''' || '''100%''' || || '''107,341''' || '''100%''' ||
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|{{note label|Citizenship|a|a}} Showing only countries with 20 or more citizens in the 2018 census.
|-
|{{note label|Greenland and Faroe Islands|b|b}} Including citizens of the [[Faroe Islands]] and [[Greenland]].
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|{{note label|Serbia|c|c}} Not included in the 1998 census. See Yugoslavia.
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|{{note label|Kosovo|d|d}} Included as part of Serbia in the 2008 census, and as part of Yugoslavia in the 1998 census.
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|{{note label|Yugoslavia|e|e}} [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] (1992–2006). Some persons who were registered as Yugoslavians after 1992 may in fact have origins in any of the six original republics of the union.
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|{{note label|Other Europe|f|f}} Including citizens of unspecified countries of former [[Yugoslavia]] and the former [[Soviet Union]].
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|{{note label|Nordic 1|g|g}} Including the Nordic countries except Iceland.
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|{{note label|EU 1|h|h}} Not including the [[2013 enlargement of the European Union]].
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|{{note label|EU 2|i|i}} Not including the [[2004 enlargement of the European Union|2004]] and [[2007 enlargement of the European Union]].
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|{{note label|Nordic 2|j|j}} Excluding Iceland.
|}

[[File:Reykjavik population graph 1889-2016.svg|thumb|upright=1.5|Historical population of Reykjavík]]

===Districts===
[[File:Administrative map of Reykjavík.png|thumb|left|Districts of Reykjavík]]
Reykjavík is divided into 10 districts:
* [[Vesturbær]] (District 1)
* [[Miðborg]] (District 2, ''city centre'')
* [[Hlíðar]] (District 3)
* [[Laugardalur]] (District 4)
* [[Háaleiti og Bústaðir]] (District 5)
* [[Breiðholt]] (District 6)
* [[Árbær]] (District 7)
* [[Grafarvogur]] (District 8)
* [[Kjalarnes]] (District 9) (in the north)
* [[Grafarholt og Úlfarsárdalur]] (District 10)

In addition, there are [[hinterland]] areas (lightly shaded on the map) which are not assigned to any district.
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