Territorial Review Copenhagen - Region Hovedstaden

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Under-utilisation of immigrants is a challenge especially for
Copenhagen, considering their higher proportion of the population. Within
the metropolitan area, the city of Copenhagen has the most foreign citizens
in absolute terms, although in relative terms, the surrounding municipalities
of Ishoj (14.2%) and Albertslund (11.4%) have a larger proportion of
foreigners, as against 11.3% in Copenhagen. Figures for the other large
Danish cities are much smaller, with 6.2% in Aarhus, 6.0% in Odense and
4.3% in Aalborg. Some of the municipalities surrounding the city of
Copenhagen in the west and south, such as Ishoj, Albertslund, Brøndby and
Hoje-Taastrup, have the highest share of non-Western immigrants. The city
of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg have the largest share of Western foreign
citizens, together with Gentofte and Lyngby-Taarbaek, municipalities to the
north of Copenhagen. 20
Copenhagen‘s rate of foreign-born population (13%) is modest
compared to that of other metropolitan areas in the OECD (Figure 1.18), for
example, Toronto (45%), Geneva (39%) and Amsterdam (29%). Other
Scandinavian cities, such as Stockholm and Oslo, also have more foreigners
(17% and 22%), while several cities in southern and eastern Europe have
considerably lower proportions of foreigners. The four largest
concentrations of foreigners in Copenhagen are from Turkey, Pakistan,
Yugoslavia and Iraq, but they form a relatively small part of the total foreign
population, in sharp contrast to several cities in France and the United
Kingdom, where the four largest groups can constitute from 60% to 70% of
the total foreign urban population. 21