Most Common Foreign Citizenship In Each German District -

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The map above shows the country of citizenship for the largest group of foreigners by German district. However, it doesn’t show the absolute or even relative numbers. So even districts with very few foriegners will still have one group that’s the largest.

In total, Germany had 6,180,013 people with non-German citizenship living there in 2011, according to zensus2011.de.

In terms of numbers, Turks make up by far the largest group with over 1.5 million living in Germany. The district with the fewest foreign citizens is Nordvorpommern at just 0.62%, whereas Offenbach am Main has the largest number at 28.59%.

Reddit user Szwab, who created the map, explains that:

Turks, Italians, Portuguese, Greeks (who are not the biggest minority in any district) and others originally immigrated in large numbers to West Germany as Gastarbeiter (guest workers) to provide additional workforce to the then growing economy.

Vietnamese have been living in fellow socialist East Germany in somewhat larger numbers since the 1970s.

Russians are not ethnic Germans from Russia. These people were given citizenship when they arrived and are therefore not foreign citizens.

About the Dutch, I can tell at least for East Frisia (in the northwest), that they move there because of lower real estate prices. This probably applies to the other Dutch and Luxembourgish districts, too.

As you can see, most West German districts have Turks as largest group of foreigners. As they tend to live in urban areas, they are often outnumbered in more rural districts on the borders. In the east, the number of foreigners are generally lower, in many rural eastern districts, the percentage is under 2%, or even under 1%. Thus, the map is more colourful, as relatively small numbers are enough to be the largest group.

https://brilliantmaps.com/german-foreign-citizenship/