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Population and settlement structure
About 2.4 million people live in the Rhine-Neckar
Metropolitan Region on a surface area of 5,637 square
kilometres. Thus the region is the seventh-largest population
centre of Germany.
More than 600,000 inhabitants live in the cities of Mannheim
(310,605 citizens), Ludwigshafen (163,541 citizens) and
Heidelberg together, forming the three largest settlement
areas of the Metropolitan region (144,766 citizens). They
compose the centre of the region. Culturally and economically
connected to this nuclear area are numerous other cities and
regional centres. Among these history-charged cities for
example are Worms (82,178 citizens), Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (54,155 citizens), Speyer (50,731
citizens), Bensheim (39,574 citizens), Viernheim (32,533 citizens), Weinheim (43,665 citizens),
Schwetzingen (22,052 citizens) and Mosbach (24,866 citizens)..
The Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region is densely populated in the catchment area of Mannheim,
Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg. More than 2,000 inhabitants per square kilometre have settled here. In
contrast less than 100 people per square kilometre inhabit the rural areas of the Odenwald and the Pfalz.
These rural areas are, however, by no means insignificant. On the contrary: they offer special
developmental conditions and a living environment which positively contributes to the quality of life in the
entire Metropolitan Region.
Area *
Agricultural area 42,3 %
Forest area 37,8 %
Settlement area ** 17,3 %
* Situation as of 2005 (collected in a 4-year rotation), in this diagram expanses of water and surface
areas designated for other uses, such as marshlands, wastelands etc., are not considered.
** Building areas, operational areas (without wasting assets), recreation areas, transport infrastructure,
cemetery
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