Cities/Berlin

Who lives where in Berlin

3,913,644 residents by migration background, 31 December 2025. One dot ≈ 15 people, placed at random inside each of 540 LOR planning areas (Planungsräume). The No migration background group starts hidden so the minorities stand out — click any group to show or hide it, and hover an area for its official counts.

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What the colours mean

Migration background. Register-based migration background: foreigners, Germans born abroad who moved in after 1949, naturalised Germans, and children under 18 with a parent in one of those groups. Adults born in Berlin to migrant parents count as having no migration background in the register.

  • No migration background2,258,451 · 57.7%

    Germans without a migration background.

  • France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Austria135,949 · 3.5%

    Migration background from these five EU states (the ones Berlin's table names).

  • Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia201,485 · 5.1%

    Migration background from these four EU states.

  • Other EU75,282 · 1.9%

    The rest of the EU-27, which the table does not split by country.

  • Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan184,356 · 4.7%

    Migration background from Russia, Ukraine or Kazakhstan.

  • Türkiye202,279 · 5.2%

    Migration background from Türkiye.

  • Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan176,926 · 4.5%

    Migration background from these five countries.

  • China, India, Vietnam118,199 · 3.0%

    Migration background from China, India or Vietnam.

  • UK & USA60,381 · 1.5%

    Migration background from the United Kingdom or the United States.

  • Other & not assignable500,336 · 12.8%

    Every other country, plus people whose origin the register cannot assign.

What is exact and what is not

  • Exact: how many people of each group live in each of the 540 LOR planning areas (Planungsräume), as published by the source below. The Exact areas view and the hover numbers show these figures directly.
  • Not exact: where a dot sits inside its Planungsraum. Dots are scattered at random within the area's boundary — including over parks, railways or water inside it — so a dot never marks a real home, and a pattern smaller than one Planungsraum is not in the data.
  • Rounded: each count becomes count ÷ 15 dots, rounded up or down at random, so very small groups in an area can show one dot more or fewer than the exact figure would give.

Source and method

Counts: Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg — Statistischer Bericht A I 16 – hj 2/25, tables 1 and 4 (Einwohnerregisterstatistik).

Boundaries: Lebensweltlich orientierte Räume (LOR) 2021, Planungsräume (Geoportal Berlin).

Method: The table names 23 origins inside each area's migration-background total; 'Other EU' and 'Other' are what is left after subtracting the named countries. Each area's count for each group becomes count ÷ 15 dots (rounded up or down at random, so totals are right on average), scattered uniformly inside the area — a dot's exact position means nothing, only the area does. 260,935 dots in all. Map style after Karim Douïeb's Brussels. A lovely Melting-Pot.

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