Editing Hagen (section)

==Demographics==
Hagen became a so-called [[Großstadt]] in 1928, when the population exceeded the 100,000 mark. In 1964, the population passed the 200,000 mark. The city had its highest population after the municipal reorganisation in 1975 with 231,840 inhabitants.

Since December 2005, the city has been permanently below the 200,000 population mark (according to the city administration), while the North Rhine-Westphalia State Office for Data Processing and Statistics was already assuming a population of just 196,934 at that time. The population reached a low point in 2012 with 187,810 people, since then it has been increasing again. In 2021, the balance of inflows and outflows was +592 (-1,112 for Germans and +1,704 for foreigners).

On 31 December 2023, the population was 197,677, including 150,505 Germans and 47,172 foreigners.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bevölkerungsentwicklung Deutsche und ausländische Bevölkerung 1985 - 2023 |url=https://www.hagen.de/FIRSTspiritWeb/hagen/media/files/fb/fb_32/statistik_und_wahlen/statistik/einwohnerzahlen/2.__Entwicklung_Deutsche_und_Auslaender_1985-2023_-_neu.pdf}}</ref>

In the ranking of cities in Germany by population, Hagen is in 41st place behind [[Kassel]] and ahead of [[Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia|Hamm]].

The proportion of under 20-year-olds in Hagen in 2023 was 20.3%, while the proportion of people aged 60 and over was 28.8%. The proportion of the foreign population in Hagen in 2023 was 23.9%. In 2021, 34.1% of the Hagen population had a [[migration background]].

In March 2021, 41.7% of children in daycare centres had a migrant background and 43.2% of children in daycare centres had a mother tongue other than German.

At 12.1% (8.4% for Germans and 28.1% for foreigners), the unemployment rate in October 2022 was above the north rhine-westphalian average of 7.7%.

The following table shows the largest foreign resident groups in the city of Hagen.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistisches Jahrbuch 2013|url=https://www.derwesten.de/wp/staedte/hagen/zahl-der-auslaender-steigt-erneut-an-id9238027.html|publisher=Westfalenpost|access-date=2016-04-23|archive-date=2016-04-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426034448/http://www.derwesten.de/wp/staedte/hagen/zahl-der-auslaender-steigt-erneut-an-id9238027.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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! style="background:#efefef;"|Rank
! style="background:#efefef;"|Nationality
! style="background:#efefef;"|Population (31.12.2017)
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|1||{{flag|Turkey}}|| 7,196
|-
|2||{{flag|Italy}}|| 3,558
|-
|3||{{flag|Romania}}|| 3,175
|-
|4||{{flag|Poland}}||2,534
|-
|5||{{flag|Bulgaria}}||1,481
|-
|6||{{flag|Portugal}}||1,082
|-
|7||{{flag|Kosovo}}||928
|-

|8||{{flag|Croatia}}||876
|-
|10||{{flag|Algeria}}||710
|-
|11||{{flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}||678
|-
|12||{{flag|Morocco}}||543
|-
|}