Total migration

Since about 1970 the evolution of Austria’s population has almost exclusively been shaped by migration, because the number of births and deaths has been (more or less) balanced. As both international and internal migration is distributed very unevenly within Austria, migration has regionally varying effects. Migration gains in larger towns and cities have to be seen alongside migration losses in more peripherally located areas.

Approximately one in ten inhabitants (878 000 people) in Austria changed residence in 2010. While more than three quarters (77% or approx. 677 000 people) moved their main place of residence within a given municipality or to a different municipality within Austria, 23% (approx. 201 000 people) moved across the Austrian border. The figure of 114 398 arrivals from abroad and 86 703 departures to foreign countries resulted in an international net migration of 27 695 people. In relation to Austria’s resident population in 2009, net-migration corresponded to a rate of 3.3 per 1 000 inhabitants and thus was about a third higher than in 2009. There were 677 206 cases of people migrating within Austria in 2010, down from 680 237 in 2009. The majority of these internal migrations involved relatively short distances, with around 54% of cases concerning moves within a municipality.

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Migration (total) 2010-2011 by month, federal territories (NUTS-2) and citizenship

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