Territorial Review Copenhagen - Region Hovedstaden

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(such as the former Copenhagen County and Frederiksborg County), as well
as for migration to areas now in the Sjaelland region, such as the former
Roskilde County. 36 Given lower prices in Malmö and surrounding Swedish
areas, after the construction of the Øresund Bridge, approximately 3 000
people have moved from Copenhagen to Malmö each year (Andersen,
2007). Of particular concern are the numbers of families that are leaving
Copenhagen: 55% of the couples who decide to leave the city of
Copenhagen have children. 37 Without sufficient workforce housing in
Copenhagen, the city‘s ongoing problems recruiting for jobs in the social
care sector, day care centres and primary schools are likely to increase. If
households in the middle-income group continue to move away, it will be
even more difficult to fill municipal positions in the City of Copenhagen and
to prevent social polarisation. The potential for workforce housing policies
to remedy this situation will be explored later in this Review.
Figure 1.27. Net outmigration from the city of Copenhagen to surrounding
counties, 1980-2006
Source: OECD Secretariat‘s calculations on the basis of data from Statistics Denmark
Environmental quality
Copenhagen‘s air quality is not among the best in selected OECD cities.
Copenhagen has one of the lowest sulphur concentrations, but with regards
to the concentrations of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter, many
similar-sized cities in the OECD of fewer than 2.5 million inhabitants are
doing better (Figure 1.28). Even large cities such as Paris, London and
Frankfurt have managed to achieve lower concentrations of particulate
matter (PM). In 2005, the limit for daily average value for PM10 (50 μg/m3)
was exceeded 64 times in the city of Copenhagen, 29 more than the EU
permitted threshold (Teknik og Miljøforvaltningen KK, 2007). Though