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5.1.3_Ethnic diversity
of the population. Vienna’s foreign residential population is younger than the native one: about 28% of the foreign citizens are between 15 and 30 years old, whereas only 17% of the city’s Austrian nationals are in this age group. On the other hand about 16% of the city’s Austrian nationals are between 60 and 75 years old, whereas only 6% of the foreign citizens belong to this age group. More than 80% of foreigners living in Vienna originate from European states (predominantly Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey, Germany and Bosnia-Herzegovina); about 10% come from Asia; about 4% from Africa; and 2% from North and South America. Fundamentally, it is immigration into Vienna that is driving the population growth. Without immigration the population would have decreased during the last few years. In 2006, some 40,000 people from abroad migrated to Vienna, and some 28,000 emigrated, giving a total net inward migration of some 12,000 people. In 2005, the total net inward migration was 23,600.
5.2_Mobility in Vienna: current developments In the coming years, Vienna’s mobility and transport policies will face new challenges. The City of Vienna as well as the Vienna Region (including the federal provinces of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland) is growing economically as well as demographically. In addition to economic and social opportunities, this trend will have implications for the city’s mobility and transport policies, for example due to increasing through traffic. 5.2.1_Modal split Vienna shows quite a high share of sustainable modes of transport („Umweltverbund”) compared with other cities, and the share has risen further since 2003, when the Transport Master Plan was implemented. In Vienna today slightly more trips are made by public transport (35%) than by car (34%); 27% are on foot and 4% by bicycle23. Significant differences can be seen between male and female mobility patterns.
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523,000 people living in the city have a migration background22: this represents 31.4%
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to increase further, with a projected 24.6% by 2015, rising to 27.4 %. by 2030. Some
The classification „migration background“ includes residents with a foreign nationality (immigrants and migrants of the second generation) as well as naturalised migrants. Source: bmvit, Socialdata, VCÖ 2008
In 2007, 20.1% of Vienna’s population were foreign citizens. This percentage is expected