In the last decade, the population of the city of Utrecht increased by roughly 70,000. In 2009, Utrecht had approximately 300,000 inhabitants. By 2023, the number of inhabitants had grown to over 368,000. This was approximately one quarter of the total population of the province of the same name, of which the city of Utrecht is the capital. In 2021, the province of Utrecht had roughly 1.37 million inhabitants, making it the fifth-largest province in the country after South and North Holland, North Brabant and Gelderland.

 Fourth-largest city in the Netherlands   

With its 360 thousand inhabitants, Utrecht is one of the largest cities in the country. The capital, Amsterdam, is the largest city in the Netherlands, with roughly 873,000 inhabitants, followed by Rotterdam and The Hague. Utrecht follows in fourth place.

Rabobank and NS headquarters  

Utrecht is home to a large number of internationally operating companies, of which Dutch bank Rabobank is just one. One of the leading banks in the country, Rabobank had nearly 450 branches nationwide in 2018. The Rabobank headquarters are in Utrecht though, as are the headquarters of the national railway organization (NS). Utrecht also has the largest railway station in the country, receiving an average of nearly 272.8 thousand passengers every working day.

Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Utrecht, Netherlands metro area from 1950 to 2025.

In 2023, around 1.39 million inhabitants lived in the Dutch province of Utrecht, of which the largest group of people was 30 to 35 years old with 100,000 citizens. There were around 1,900 people aged 95 years or older.

Historical dataset of population level and growth rate for the Utrecht, Netherlands metro area from 1950 to 2025.

In 2023, Zuid-Holland was the most populated province in the Netherlands, with over 3.8 million inhabitants. That was over 800,000 inhabitants more than runner-up Noord-Holland, the province in which also the capital Amsterdam is located. That year, Amsterdam’s population alone made up 863,000 of Noord-Holland’s nearly three million inhabitants.

 Zuid-Holland   

Zuid-Holland’s largest city is Rotterdam, home to approximately 645,000 people. The third largest city in the Netherlands, Den Haag (or The Hague, as internationals would know it) is also located in Zuid-Holland. The city, which hosts the Dutch government as well as many international organizations, reached a population of roughly 538,000 in 2019.

Utrecht and Eindhoven  

 Completing the top five of the largest cities in the Netherlands are Utrecht and Eindhoven, located in the provinces Utrecht and Noord-Brabant. The city of Utrecht had nearly 353,000 inhabitants in 2019, or roughly one quarter of the entire population of the province bearing the same name. Eindhoven’s population reached nearly 232,000 that year, but as Noord-Brabant boasts two more of the largest cities in the country, Eindhoven plays a less central role in its own province as Utrecht does, despite being home to both Philips and one of the most successful football clubs in Dutch history, PSV Eindhoven.

Population growth in The Netherlands by birth, death and migration by sex and region. In addition to national data, information is presented by group of provinces, province, COROP region and municipality. The regional totals shown concern cumulated municipal data. Where changes of municipal boundaries transect regional boundaries, the municipal classifications concerns the most recent situation. The municipality of Vianen, for example, was annexed by the province of Utrecht on 1 January 2002, and is classified under the province of Utrecht in the Table. Data available from: 1942 Status of the figures: All data recorded in this publication are final data. Up to 1977 data may differ from other published data on StatLine. This is due to differences between the data files used by Statistics Netherlands and the official data as published in 'Loop van de bevolking per gemeente'. Changes as of 25 June 2024: Final figures of 2023 have been added. When will new figures be published? In the 3rd quarter of 2025 figures of 2024 will be added in this table.

EN: The dataset is based on tables with detailed data for municipalities and boroughs of the population census and the occupational census of the Netherlands 1947. These detailed tables from the archive of Statistics Netherlands never have been published. They are written on so-called ‘transparanten’, sheets in A4-format. The set contains more than 35 table-types, some of which spread over two or more sheets, some combined on one sheet.

Image scans of the detailed tables have been made in February 2005. Those scans, 29489 in total were published on www.volkstellingen.nl, ordered by province and municipality. In a later stage the scans have been converted by data-entry to Excel worksheets. In most cases one scan has been converted to one Excel file. However, if a scan contains two or more tables, a separate Excel file is made for each table. The Excel files also have been converted to CSV-text files.

The thematic collection: 12th Population Census 31 May 1947 contains 11 datasets for the provinces plus one dataset for the Netherlands as a whole. The documentation for any dataset in the collection contains a description of the contents of all table-types and the instruction given for data-entry.

This dataset regards the files of the province Utrecht. The files are grouped by municipality. General files for the province Utrecht are contained in the dataset for the Netherlands as a whole.

The metadata per file (details) contains the table number. An overview of table numbers by file is contained in ‘Table number per scan_Utrecht.csv’. This applies for the scans as well as the Excel files and the CSV-text files. The file 'Titles of Tables' shows the table numbers with the corresponding titles of the tables.

NL: De dataset is gebaseerd op gedetailleerde tabellen op plaatselijk en wijkniveau van de Volks- en Beroepstellingen 1947. Deze gedetailleerde tabellen uit het CBS-archief zijn nooit gepubliceerd. Zij stonden op perkamentachtig papier (‘transparanten’) in A4-formaat. Het betreft meer dan 35 tabeltypen, waarvan sommige per tabel op één transparant, sommige per tabel gespreid over twee of meer transparanten (afhankelijk van de grootte van de gemeente) en enkele met twee of drie tabellen op één transparant.

Van deze gedetailleerde tabellen zijn in februari 2005 tijdens de Landelijke Contactdag Document Management image scans gemaakt in JPEG-formaat. De in totaal 29489 scans zijn in eerste instantie opgenomen op de website www.volkstellingen.nl, geordend per provincie en gemeente. Later zijn de scans met data-entry overgenomen in Excelbestanden. In principe is van elke scan één Excelbestand gemaakt. Alleen als een scan twee of meer tabellen bevat, is van elke tabel een afzonderlijk Excelbestand gemaakt. De Excelbestanden zijn ook geconverteerd naar CSV-tekstbestanden.

De collectie datasets ‘Volks- en Beroepentellingen 1947’ bestaat uit 11 datasets voor de provincies plus een dataset voor Nederland als geheel. De documentatie voor alle datasets in deze collectie omvat onder meer een beschrijving van de inhoud van elk tabeltype en de instructies die zijn gegeven voor de data-entry.

Deze dataset betreft de bestanden van de provincie Utrecht. De bestanden zijn ingedeeld per gemeente. Algemene bestanden over de provincie Utrecht bevinden zich in de dataset voor Nederland als geheel.

De metadata per bestand (details) bevat het tabelnummer. Een overzicht met het tabelnummer per bestand staat in ‘Table number per scan_Utrecht.csv’. Dat is ook van toepassing op de bijbehorende Excelbestanden en CSV-tekstbestanden. Het bestand 'Titles of Tables' geeft een overzicht van de tabelnummers met de bijbehorende tabelnamen. Dit bestand is beschikbaar gesteld als pdf-document en als CSV-tekstbestand.

12de volkstelling 31 mei 1947 - Utrecht

Description Utrecht in Figures is the online database of the municipality of Utrecht. Here the Research & Advice department publishes figures about the city of Utrecht and the Utrecht districts and neighbourhoods. With Utrecht in Figures we want to show everyone interested in Utrecht how things are actually going in Utrecht. Utrecht in Figures is divided into themes. Within the theme 'Households (Population)' you will find information about the following 4 'indicators': - % households by composition - average size households - households by composition - total number of households #### Number of indicators Number of indicators under this theme: 4 #### Source household statistics municipality of Utrecht (BRP, BAG) #### Related datasets Other datasets that fall within this theme: - Indicators Population - Indicators Population-development (Population) - Indicators Population-prognosis (Population) - Indicators Refugees and asylum seekers (Population)

Not surprisingly, the capital of the Netherlands is also its largest city. At around *******, Amsterdam has over ******* inhabitants more than the second-largest city in the country, Rotterdam. The Hague and Utrecht, the third and fourth-largest cities in the Netherlands, together have approximately as many inhabitants as Amsterdam alone. Amsterdam and the pressure on the housing market A rapidly growing city, Amsterdam’s population increased from roughly ***** thousand to around ***** thousand in the last decade. This has created pressure on the real estate market, where average rent and housing prices have skyrocketed. In the first quarter of 2010, the average rent of residential property amounted to roughly ***** euros per square meter. In the first quarter of 2021, this had increased to over ***** euros per square meter.  2030 Outlook  In the nearby future, Amsterdam is set to remain the Netherlands’ largest city. According to a recent forecast, by 2030 Amsterdam will have broken the barrier of one million inhabitants. Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht are forecast to grow too, albeit at a much lower pace. In 2030, Rotterdam is expected to reach just under ******* inhabitants.

1.295.484 (Persons) in 2018.

Description Utrecht in Figures is the online database of the municipality of Utrecht. Here the Research & Advice department publishes figures about the city of Utrecht and the Utrecht districts and neighbourhoods. With Utrecht in Figures we want to show everyone interested in Utrecht how things are actually going in Utrecht. Utrecht in Figures is divided into themes. Within the theme 'Population development (Population)' you will find information about the following 27 'indicators': - population development (births, deaths, relocations) - population development per 1000 inhabitants - births per 1000 women (15 to 44 years) - average length of stay by address in years - marriages and divorces - migration 0 to 3 years old - migration 0 to 17 years old - migration 4 to 11 years old - migration 12 to 17 years old - migration 18 to 24 years old - migration 25 to 34 years - migration 35 to 54 years inclusive - migration 55 years and older - migration men - migration total - migration women - migration; Moroccan background - migration; Dutch background - migration; non-Dutch background - migration; other non-western background - migration; Sur./Antilles/Arub. background - migration; Turkish background - migration; western background (not Dutch) - length of stay at address by age - length of stay at address by migration background and age - settling in and leaving Utrecht by age - settling in and leaving Utrecht by migration background #### Number of indicators Number of indicators under this theme: 27 #### Source BRP, municipality of Utrecht #### Update frequency Annual #### Related datasets Other datasets that fall within this theme: - Indicators Population - Indicators Population-forecast (Population) - Indicators Households (Population) - Indicators Refugees and asylum seekers (Population)

Dit deel betreft de bestanden van de provincie Utrecht.De bestanden zijn geordend in de mappenstructuur Bedrijfsklasse\Bedrijfsgroep.De metadata per bestand (File properties) bevat informatie over het Economisch Geografisch Gebied (EGG) alsmede het bandnummer. Het bestand Inventaris.pdf geeft een overzicht van Gemeenten per bandnummer.

Description

Utrecht in Cijfers is the online database of the municipality of Utrecht. Here, the Research & Advice department publishes figures on the city of Utrecht and the Utrecht neighbourhoods. With Utrecht in Figures we want to show all interested parties in Utrecht how things are actually going with Utrecht.Utrecht in Figures is divided into themes.

Within the theme 'State of public space (Public space & greenery)' you will find information about the following 11 'indicators': - residents' reports public space, roads and playgrounds - residents' reports on public spaces, roads and playgrounds, per 1000 inhabitants - resident reports parks and green areas - resident reports parks and green areas, per 1000 inhabitants - nuisance dog poop - nuisance clutter and waste - report rate collection of waste in the neighbourhood - report figure beauty streets nearby - report figure state public space nearby - score general neighbourhood judgement - score cleanliness

Number of indicators

Number of indicators under this theme: 11

Source

Research & Advice, Municipality of Utrecht, Population Survey

Related datasets

Other datasets that fall within this theme: - Indicators Public space offer (Public space & green)

Dit deel betreft de bestanden van de provincie Utrecht. De bestanden zijn ingedeeld per gemeente.De metadata per bestand (details) bevat het tabelnummer. Het bestand 'tabelnamen' geeft een overzicht van de tabelnummers met de bijbehorende tabelnamen. Dit bestand is beschikbaar gesteld als PDF document en als CSV tekstbestand.

Population of the Netherlands as of 1 January by gender, age, ethnic group, generation and region. The regions included in the table are parts of the country, provinces, COROP areas and municipalities. The regional totals presented are aggregates of municipalities. In case of border changes that cross several regional borders, the classification of the municipalities is grouped according to the most recent situation. For example: for the municipality of Vianen, which was transferred from the province of South Holland to the province of Utrecht on 01-01-2002, it is grouped in the table in the province of Utrecht. Data available from: 1996 Status of the figures: All figures included in the table are final. Changes as of October 15, 2021: None, this table has been discontinued. This table is followed by table 'Population; migration background, generation, age, region, 1 January'. See the link in paragraph 3. When will new figures be available? Does not apply.

Dit deel betreft de bestanden van de provincie Utrecht. De bestanden zijn ingedeeld per gemeente. Algemene bestanden betreffende de provincie Utrecht bevinden zich in de folder '_Utrecht Algemeen'De metadata per bestand (details) bevat het tabelnummer. Het bestand 'tabelnamen' geeft een overzicht van de tabelnummers met de bijbehorende tabelnamen. Dit bestand is beschikbaar gesteld als PDF document en als CSV tekstbestand. Date Submitted: 2013-12-16

Description Survey data of Utrecht children (groups 7 and 8 of regular primary education) from 2008 to the present on health and related topics (including: perceived health, physical complaints, lifestyle, situation at home, school experience, bullying, gaming and media use) #### Source Self-collected survey data #### Goal Monitoring the health of children in Utrecht. #### Quality The data is a good representation of the Utrecht population of primary school students from groups 7 and 8. In addition, the number of records is high enough to allow reliable statements about smaller geographical areas (neighborhoods) and specific groups (gender, age, family wealth, family composition and migration background). #### Origin Public Health Act

Between 2009 and 2023, the population of Maastricht increased, from just over 118,000 to roughly 123,000 inhabitants. This was just over ten percent of the total number of people living in the Limburg province, of which Maastricht is the capital. In 2023, Limburg’s population amounted to roughly 1.12 million inhabitants, making it the seventh province in the country based on population size.

 Largest cities in the Netherlands   

Although a sizable city for Dutch standards, Maastricht was not among the ten largest cities in the Netherlands in 2022. The capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, is the largest city in the country, with roughly 883,000 inhabitants, followed by Rotterdam and The Hague. Utrecht, Eindhoven, Tilburg, Almere, Groningen, Breda and Nijmegen are all larger than Maastricht as well.

Leading university for international students  

Outside of the Netherlands, Maastricht is well-known for its research university, which attracts students from all over the world. Maastricht University has the largest number of international students of all institutes in the Netherlands, numbering roughly 10.9 thousand in 2020/21. According to the most recent figures, over 55 percent of Maastricht University’s students had roots outside the Netherlands – more than any other university in the country.