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Internal migrations

Since the beginning of the 1970s Austria`s population change is determined almost exclusively by migratory movements, since births and deaths are largely balanced. Corresponding to the relation of the numbers of births and deaths, internal migration has a regionally varying influence on the evolution of the population.

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. As the figures for intraregional migrations demonstrate (disaggregated by the various NUTS levels), the majority of internal migrations involved relatively short distances.

As a result of Vienna being the single city in Austria with more than 1 million inhabitants and the resulting intensified functional linkages with surrounding regions, migration gains from internal migration occurred more frequently in the East of Austria than in other parts of the country. Most migrants are between 20 and 34 years old and are Austrian nationals, albeit the relative frequency of internal migration is higher with foreigners. Age-specific patterns of internal migration show a pronounced trend for suburbanisation, which with increasing age, also extends to further outlying areas. Only young adults aged 18 to 26 years predominantly move to central cities to benefit from their larger offer of educational and vocational opportunities.

The total internal migration rate at birth (which is the average number of changes of residence in a lifetime) in 2010 stood at 6.37 for men und 6.55 for women. Compared to 2009 there was small decrease (men: -0,01; women: -0,04), which resulted mainly from a slightly lower occurrence of migratory movements among the population under 15 years of age.

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Internal Migration 2010-2011 by month, federal territories (NUTS-2) and citizenshipHTMLPDFXLSX


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