Inhabitants in Aarhus Municipality: 314,545
Estimated number of Inhabitants in Aarhus City Centre excl. suburbs: 249,709
Estimated number of Inhabitants in the greater Aarhus area: 1,200,000
Inhabitants of foreign origin: 45,761
Inhabitants of foreign citizenship: 23,660
Number of families: 172,488
Number of households: 148,284
Number of inhabitants within an hour drive: more than 1,200,000

Visit Aarhus has produced a small film about Aarhus.

Aarhus is a city very conscious about its roots. Aarhus may well be Denmark’s oldest city; evidence has been found which shows that there was a Viking settlement here as early as the 8th century.

The Vikings settled by the mouth of the river – at the very spot where the Cathedral stands today its steeple soaring more than 90 metres into the sky. The ’Bispetorv’ square was also the centre of the town 1250 years ago, and in the Viking Museum in the basement of the Nordea Bank you are standing right next to the ramparts which the Vikings built around Aarhus in the 10th century.

Aarhus Municipality covers an area of 468 square kilometers.
Aarhus City Centre covers an area of 91 square kilometers.
The greater Aarhus area covers an area of 1,909 square kilometers.

More information about Danes’ cost of living in Denmark is available on the Statistics Denmark website www.statbank.dk. Among other things you will find statistics about Danish households’ annual consumption by type of consumption and group of household.

Another small film from www.visitaarhus.com.

At the same time, Aarhus is Denmark’s youngest city at heart. About one in five of its inhabitants is a student at one of the city’s 25 educational and research institutions. This gives the city a youthful vibrancy of its very own; in the city centre as well as in and around the University of Aarhus and its characteristic yellow brick buildings.

Number of nurseries: 80
Number of day cares: 661
Number of kindergartens: 106

Aarhus is currently expanding dramatically. Over the next ten years the entire inner section of the Aarhus Harbour will be transformed into a new urban area with homes, businesses and educational institutions. Some 7-8,000 new residents will move into the new urban area within the next few years. In parallel with this, the Lisbjerg quarter to the north of the city will also be undergoing substantial growth and will be connected with the city centre by a new light railway, passing through Denmark’s largest hospital area at Aarhus University Hospital.

Number of municipal primary and lower secondary school: 49
Number of students: 40,000
Number of higher educational institutions: 25

Number of airports within an hour drive: 2 international airports: Billund airport - 32 international destinations (website: www.billund-airport.dk), Aarhus airport -  14 international destinations (website: www.aar.dk).
Number of companies: 32.194

The living expenses of an average Danish family can be broken down as follows:

• Accommodation and maintenance 22%

• Food, drink and tobacco 17%

• Transport and communications 17%

• Other goods and services, f.ex., child care 13%

• Equipment for leisure activities, entertainment 11%

• Heating and electricity 7%

• Furniture 6%

• Clothing and shoes 5%

• Medicines and medical expenses 2%

Source: Workindenmark