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Stuttgart
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The City of Stuttgart is the capital of the German State of Baden-Württemberg. From a national and an international perspective, it is an outstanding economic and cultural centre, with a population of 590,000, and the core of the Stuttgart Region.
The city and the Region are renowned for their innovative capacity and high-tech industries, especially in car manufacturing and its supply industries (a. o. Daimler, Porsche, Bosch). The Stuttgart stock exchange ranks second in Germany after Frankfurt. Numerous banks and insurance companies are also located here as well as several universities and colleges.
Stuttgart is also a spa and has, after Budapest, the strongest wells of mineral water in Europe. With its neighbourhood of the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, its setting amidst vineyards, parks and woods, its hills and valleys, Stuttgart offers a high quality of life. Its natural living conditions are accompanied by a high-quality cultural life with a state theatre, music halls, galleries and museums as well as a Casino.
Stuttgart is the centre of a Larger Urban Zone (LUZ), as defined by the Urban Audit, that covers an area of 3654 km² and contains 2.7 million inhabitants. This region is, after the “Ruhrgebiet” and the Berlin region, the third largest in Germany.
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CITY AND LUZ LEVEL
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| CITY | | QUINTILES
Comparison with UA cities | | LUZ |
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| INDICATORS | YEAR | SCORE | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | CASES | | YEAR | SCORE | Ratio City:LUZ |
| DEMOGRAPHY | | |
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| Total resident population | 2004 | 590,657 |
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| 342 | | 2004 | 2,663,660 | 1:4.51 |
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| Percentage of households that are 1-person households | 2004 | 48% |
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| 152 | | 2004 | 38% | 1:0.80 |
| Percentage of households that are lone-parent households | 2004 | 6% |
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| 118 | | 2004 | 6% | 1:0.99 |
| Average size of households | 2004 | 1.93 |
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| 173 | | 2004 | 2.15 | 1:1.11 |
| SOCIAL ASPECTS | | |
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| Average price per m2 for an apartment | 2004 | €1,750 |
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| 150 | | | | |
| Average price per m2 for a house | 2004 | €2,730 |
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| 157 | | | | |
| Percentage of households living in owned dwellings | 2001 | 25% |
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| 305 | | 2001 | 43% | 1:1.74 |
| Percentage of households living in social housing | 2004 | 6% |
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| 92 | | | | |
| Average living area in m2 per person | 2001 | 39 |
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| 229 | | 2001 | 40 | 1:1.03 |
| Number of recorded crimes per 1,000 population | 2004 | 105.09 |
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| 223 | | | | |
| ECONOMIC ASPECTS | | |
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| Unemployment rate | 2004 | 8% |
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| 159 | | 2004 | 6% | 1:0.77 |
| Unemployment rate - female | 2004 | 7% |
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| 147 | | 2004 | 6% | 1:0.85 |
| Employment rate | 2004 | 65% |
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| 157 | | | | |
| Activity rate | 2004 | 71% |
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| 182 | | 2004 | 75% | 1:1.05 |
| GDP per head (€) | 2004 | €56,866 |
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| 148 | | 2004 | €35,001 | 1:0.62 |
| Median disposable annual household income(€) | 2004 | €22,000 |
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| 118 | | 2004 | €23,800 | 1:1.08 |
| Percentage of households receiving less than half of the national average household income | 2004 | 12% |
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| 71 | | 2004 | 8% | 1:0.72 |
| CIVIC INVOLVEMENT | | |
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| Percentage of registered electorate voting in city elections | 2004 | 49% |
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| 193 | | | | |
| TRAINING AND EDUCATION | | |
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| No. of children aged 0-4 in day care per 1,000 children 0-4 | 2001 | 450 |
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| 234 | | 2001 | 449 | 1:1 |
| % of working age population with only primary education | 2004 | 0% |
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| 155 | | 2004 | 0% | 1:0.94 |
| % of working age population with tertiary education | 2004 | 0% |
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| 136 | | 2004 | 0% | 1:0.91 |
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| Summer Smog: No. of days ozone (O3) exceeds 120µg/m3 | 2004 | 25 |
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| Number of days PM10 concentrations exceed 50 µg/m3 | 2004 | 14 |
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| 235 | | | | |
| Amount of solid waste collected (domestic and commercial) - tonnes per capita per annum | 2004 | 0.37 |
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| 237 | | | | |
| Percentage of solid waste processed by landfill | 2004 | 3% |
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| 213 | | | | |
| Green space to which the public has access (m2 per capita) | 2004 | 16 |
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| Population density (residents per km2) | 2004 | 2,853 |
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| 265 | | 2004 | 729 | 1:0.26 |
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| Percentage of journeys to work by car | 2004 | 51% |
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| 108 | | 2004 | 65% | 1:1.28 |
| Average time of journey to work (mins.) | 2004 | 24 |
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| 107 | | 2004 | 23 | 1:0.97 |
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SUB CITY LEVEL
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| 0 SUB-CITY DISTRICTS | | Comparison of Sub-City Districts |
| INDICATORS | YEAR | LOWEST | CITY SCORE | HIGHEST | RATIO Lowest:Highest |
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| Percentage of total population aged 0-4 | | | | | |
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