N° 25 Les communes de la Nordstad
22 349 people lived in the municipalities of the Nordstad at the time of the census (1 February 2011) that is 7.2 % more than in 2001.In the four less populated and peripheral municipalities to the communes of Diekirch and Ettelbruck, the population growth exceeds the average of the Nordstad, while the increase of the number of inhabitants in Ettelbruck (6.6 %) and to Diekirch (4.1 %) is lower than the average. Globally, the increase of the population of Nordstad (7.2 %) is situated below the national average (16.6 %). 60.9 % of the inhabitants of the Nordstad are Luxembourgers and 24.1 % are Portuguese. All the other nationalities make up 15.0 % of the inhabitants. As for the educational level, significant differences exist between the Nordstad and the country in general. Less than a third of the inhabitants of the Grand-Duchy have a low educational level (34.5 %), but in the Nordstad this percentage reaches 42.1 %. On the other hand, the part of the residents having a high educational level is only 18.8 % in the Nordstad, against 27.1 % in the total population.