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Regional Strategy South-West-Styria
The core region of the project YURA in Styria is South-West Styria. However, in order to secure
the project’s wide effect, there were also other Styrian regions included in the pilot actions and
dissemination activities from the beginning on.
Therefore, the demographic analysis provides a statistical overview of all Styrian provinces.
This facilitates the classification and evaluation of the statistical results of the province South-
West-Styria. At the same time, it is a first step to develop and implement a youth strategy
based on the work in South-West Styria also in other regions.
The analysis itself particularly focuses on those statistical data available also in other partner
regions and which therefore enable an international comparison in the framework of the overall
strategy. Besides the statistical analysis, the demographic part of the strategy also builds on
further, diverse data and surveys, which are stated elsewhere and will not be gone into again
here.
1. Demographic overview 1
The region South-West Styria is a rural area with a population of 138.207 inhabitants and a
population density of 89,36 inhabitants per km². It is the fourth largest of seven Styrian regions
(referring to number of inhabitants) and the second most densely populated region after the
Styrian central region.
On average, there live 7,23% foreigners all over Styria, with the majority of 11,14% living in
the Styrian central region. The number of foreign people in the region South-West Styria
amounts only to 3,93%, which is slightly more than in the neighbour regions South-East Styria
with 3,42% and East-Styria with 3,38%.
The number of foreign people is currently still low, however, developments show that the
number of foreigners in Styrian regions and thus also in South-West Styria has continually
increased over the last years.
1 Source: Landesstatistik Steiermark and own calculations
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This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co -financed by the ERDF