Since 2022, there has also been a trend reversal in migration between our city and the surrounding area. Since then, more people have been moving to Wolfsburg again (2024: 6,536) than from Wolfsburg to the surrounding area (2024: 6,058). This means that we have a positive net migration of 478 residents.

"Wolfsburg remains stable: the population has hardly changed in recent years. This shows that we are an attractive place to live and work - with a good balance between inward migration and existing residents," commented Lord Mayor Dennis Weilmann.

More deaths than births

However, the so-called "natural population trend" - in which births are counted against deaths - continues to show a negative trend. Although both the number of births (1,074; 2023: 1,077) and the number of deaths (1,639; 2023: 1,628) remain constant, the number of deaths has been at a high level for a few years, resulting in an increasingly negative natural population trend of -565 people (2023: -551; 2019: -158).

Wolfsburg is called Maria and Michael

The population report also includes an analysis of the top 100 first names in Wolfsburg. Wolfsburg women are called Maria, Anna, Monika, Karin and Petra; Wolfsburg men are called Michael, Andreas, Thomas, Alexander and Peter. You can read the entire population report at wolfsburg.de/statistik. It is also worth taking a look at our comprehensive statistics portal Wolfsburger Online Kommunalstatistik (WOKS) at wolfsburg.de/woks.