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Overall, just under 2.3 million foreigners live in Poland (5.9% of the total population), up from virtually 0 twelve years ago (in 2014).

However, they are not evenly distributed. The largest number of foreigners live in the so-called Big Five cities (Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan and Tricity). Outside of large cities, a significant percentage of foreigners can also be found in municipalities in the Lower Silesian, Lubusz, and Greater Poland voivodeships. The record holder is the town of Mikstat in Greater Poland, where just over half the residents (!) are immigrants. In 105 municipalities, the percentage of foreigners exceeded 10%, and over half of all immigrants in Poland lived there.

The lowest number of immigrants can be found in rural municipalities in eastern Poland. Not a single foreigner lived in five municipalities: Chrzanów (Lublin Voivodeship), Boguty-Pianki (Masovian Voivodeship), Jaśliska (Subcarpathian Voivodeship), Bieżuń (Masovian Voivodeship), and Bogoria (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship). In 157 other municipalities, there were fewer than 10 foreigners.

Overall, immigrants settle primarily in municipalities with large meat or fish processing plants, logistics facilities, and large factories.

The map shows how much the number of people born between 1990 and 1994 has changed between when they were born and now, per county. Rural Poland has lost hundreds of thousands of them - in many counties in the east, more than 1 in 3 young people has left.

And where did they move to? Big cities, especially the so-called Polish big5 (Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, Tricity and Poznań). Most of people in their thirties in these cities were born outside of them. Only a few smaller urban areas didn't see a youth drain: Żory and Bielsko-Biała in Silesia Koszalin in Western Pomerania and Leszno in Greater Poland.

Worth noticing that the real numbers are probably even more stark. Polish population registry is notorious for underestimating internal migration. For example, in the last election, 1.2 million Poles changed their voter registration to be able to vote in the place they actually live in, and it was mostly those five big cities that have gained new voters.

Map used is Klodzko, Poland and I have taken some inspiration from the real-life Kłodzko, especially around the market square area. If you haven't been to Kłodzko, I highly recommend it btw, truly a hidden gem of a town.

Current population is around 60k with virtually zero unemployment. Traffic was great until we've crossed 50k, after that the industrial zone keeps getting jammed for some reason. No traffic jams in residential areas. Around 25k citizens take public transit.

I'm quite pleased with the central city and now slowly working towards the suburbs. You can see empty spaces in some of the pics where I'll be expanding the city. I also plan to build out villages in the surrounding countryside.

Ubytek pracujących nie znaczy od razu, że w jakimś regionie wzrosło bezrobocie. W Polsce ubytek pracujących wynika ze starzenia się ludzi - po prostu więcej ludzi przechodzi na emeryturę niż wchodzi na rynek pracy.

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