Editing Salzgitter (section)

==Population development==
Population figures in order to the then area, i.e. until 1942 the contemporary quarter Salzgitter-Bad and from 1942 on the Independent City Watenstedt-Salzgitter and Salzgitter respectively. 76% of the population was developing near the City [[Braunschweig]] due to urbanization, closer proximity to a major city and other factors. Although a high concentration of the population lives near the larger City [[Braunschweig]], most of the area is near the Hildesheim agglomeration or in other parts 
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|colspan="2"|'''Population'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salzgitter.de/rathaus/jahrbuch.php|title=Statistisches Jahrbuch 2021|website=Salzgitter}}</ref>
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!  Year!! Population
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| 1821 || align="right" | 2,258
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| 1848 || align="right" | 2,654
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| 1871 || align="right" | 2,752
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| 1885 || align="right" | 2,681
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| 1905 || align="right" | 2,837
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| 1925 || align="right" | 2,852
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| 1933 || align="right" | 19,164
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| 1942 || align="right" | 108,480
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| 1946 || align="right" | 93,260
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| 1948 || align="right" | 110,247
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| 1950 || align="right" | 108,888
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| 6 June 1961 ¹ || align="right" | 110,200
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| 1965 || align="right" | 115,500
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| 1970 || align="right" | 119,000
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| 1975 || align="right" | 119,000
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| 1980 || align="right" | 113,500
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| 25 May 1987{{efn|Census amount}} || align="right" | 111,069
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| 1989 || align="right" | 111,676
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| 30 June 1997 || align="right" | 116,300
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| October 2003 || align="right" | 109,632
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| September 2004 || align="right" |108,614
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| February 2005 || align="right" |108,174
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| December 2015 || align="right" |101,079
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| December 2016 || align="right" |103,668
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===Immigration===

The [[foreigner-born]] population is 37,048 (32.8% of the total population) in 2023. 46.3% of [[Salzgitter]] has a [[migration background]] and majority of the nations are Middle Eastern or Eastern European [[countries]]. Salzgitter has the highest share of migrants to Germans in [[Lower Saxony]].  The areas with the highest percentage of migrants in Salzgitter are [[Steterburg]] with 57.5%, [[Seeviertel]] with 55.7%, [[Salzgitter-Lebenstedt|Lebenstedt]] with 54%, [[Lichtenberg, Salzgitter|Lichtenberg]] with 52.1%, [[Watenstedt]] with 48.4% and Bad with 46.4%. Most of the migrants live within the Braunschweig urban agglomeration. About 17% of the total population is Muslim in 2024, having the highest percentage of Muslims in the whole state and one of the highest in Germany.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://regionalheute.de/salzgitter/migration-in-salzgitter-eine-stadt-am-limit-eagiert-auf-buergerfragen-zu-salzgitter-1725460495/|title=Migration in Salzgitter: Eine Stadt am Limit?|first=Anke|last=Donner|date=4 September 2024|website=regionalHeute.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ankunftsquartiere-staerken.de/fallstudien/salzgitter|title=Salzgitter - Our latest events|website=www.ankunftsquartiere-staerken.de}}</ref>

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|colspan="2"|'''Largest groups of foreign residents'''
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!Nationality || Population (2024)
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|{{flag|Turkey}} || 10,421
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|{{flag|Syria}} || 6,632
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|{{flag|Poland}} || 6,139
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|{{flag|Kazakhstan}} || 2,591
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|{{flag|Romania}} || 2,579
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|{{flag|Russia}} || 2,259
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|{{flag|Bulgaria}}|| 1,349
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|{{flag|Lebanon}}|| 1,022
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|{{flag|Italy}}|| 815
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|{{flag|Tunisia}}|| 745
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|{{flag|India}}|| 622
|}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Präventionsketten Salzgitter |url=https://hage.de/media/projektvorstellung_dialogreihe_7-12-r_dr-_haerdrich_salzgitter.pdf |website=hage.de}}</ref>