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Jena in figures

Insight into the world of statistical data and facts

Various sources are used. In addition to data from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics, numerous data from municipal registers can also be found. We start with a brief overview of the development of the population in Jena since the beginning of the year.

Current

Since the beginning of 2024, 5,879 residents have registered their main residence in Jena and 5,446 have deregistered. Jena has thus gained 433 inhabitants. The current population is 108,274 inhabitants with their main residence.

Source: Registration register of the city of Jena; as of 09.12.2024

  • 50°55'34.9" north latitude, 11°35'3.3" east longitude, altitude 155 m above sea level. (Observatory Schillergäßchen)
  • largest extension north-south: 14.7 km, east-west: 12.2 km
  • Total cadastral area: 11 476.6 ha

Official population "2011 census update" as at 31.12.2023 from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics (TLS)

  • 110,791 (TLS), of which 55,060 men, 55,731 women
  • latest available number of inhabitants from the TLS: 110 791 (TLS, 31.12.2023)

Population according to population register

  • 108 008 (as of 30.6.2024)
  • of which 53,111 men, 54,897 women
  • of which 93 986 Germans, 14 022 foreigners
  • plus 6 607 residents with secondary residence
  • Statistical private households: 61,502 (31.12.2023, estimate)
  • Apartments: 60,135 ( 31.12.2023)

Further small-scale data can be found in the borough statistics.

  • IHK member companies: 5,464 (as of December 2023)
  • Manufacturing industry: * 65 companies with 9,511 employees
  • Main construction industry: ** 4 companies with 629 employees

* Status: end of September 2022
** TLS monthly average 2022
*/** Companies with 20 and more employees

Further information can be found at the Jena Economic Development Agency.

  • Employees subject to social security contributions who live in Jena: 43 492
  • Employees subject to social security contributions who work in Jena: 60,955
  • Commuters: 28 886, commuters: 11 444 (source: TLS, 30.06.2023)
  • Unemployed: 3,228, including 1,803 men and 1,425 women (November 2024)
  • Unemployment rate (in relation to all civilian labor force): 5.6%
  • General housing benefit (excluding sub-households entitled to housing benefit) received 2,380 households (TLS , 31.12.2023)
  • Social assistance* received 200 recipients (TLS, 31.12.2023)
  • Asylum seeker benefits received by 560 people (TLS, 31.12.2023)

* Current assistance for living expenses

  • General education schools: 32, with 12,383 pupils (TLS, 6.9.2023)
  • Vocational schools: 6, with 3,655 pupils (TLS, 8.11.2023)
  • Friedrich Schiller University with 16,631 students
  • Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena with 4,486 students ( winter semester 2023/24, preliminary)

Visitor numbers of selected facilities in 2023:

  • Planetarium 173 113,
  • Volkshaus 29,481,
  • Botanical Garden 56,210,
  • Philharmonie 37,629,
  • Göhre City Museum 27,358,
  • Phyletic Museum 14,346,
  • Theaterhaus 17,426

Tourism - from 2023 including camping

  • Overnight stays in 2023: 385 113 (TLS)
  • Arrivals in 2023: 215 156 (TLS)

Location

Data management and statistics team

Am Anger 28
07745 Jena
Germany

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