Percentage of foreigners living here now higher than that of Zurich

According to the latest figures published by the Cantonal Office of Statistics, the percentage of foreigners in Zug is now higher than that of Zurich. They also showed that expats who come to Zug are highly qualified and many of them bring their family with them. This is in contrast to Zurich, for example, where there are more young foreign single men.
 
The statistics also showed that 43% of the foreign population in Zug over the age of 15 had a qualification from a tertiary level institute of further education, whereas this figure was only 34% in relation to Swiss people. What is more, this higher level of education among foreigners was reflected in the fact that 22% of them were in leading positions, compared with 19% of Swiss people. Simon Villiger, who was responsible for providing the figures, also mentioned that, of all the foreigners in Zug, half of them indicated that their main language was German.
 
As to figures concerning families, it was noted that children lived in one in every three of Zug households. While this amounted to 32% in the case of Swiss families, the figure for foreign families was as high as 42%. It was also noted that there were more married Swiss couples without children (33%) compared with married foreign couples without issue (24%). Interesting, too, were figures relating to age, which showed that there were more foreigners between the ages of 15 and 24 in the canton than Swiss people of this age range.
 
The figures showed that, as in other German-speaking Swiss cantons, many people from Germany had settled here, with as many as 6,419 recorded in Zug in 2013, the equivalent of one-fifth of the total foreign population of the canton. There was also a large Italian community, whose numbers made up 9% of the local population. Nationals of Portugal and the United Kingdom each made up 6% of the foreign population, with nationals from Serbia making up 5%. In fact members of these afore-mentioned nationalities made up around the half of the canton's population.
 
It is interesting to note that, in 2013, as many as 3,200 foreigners moved to Zug, most of them Germans. Furthermore, there was more immigration to Zug from the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States when compared with neighbouring cantons, though fewer Italians and Portuguese.
 
The statistics showed that, of the whole population of Zug over 15 years of age, one third had foreign roots, some 23,000 of them of the first or second generation. Just under 11,000 of them were Swiss people with a migratory background.
 
As of the end of 2013, the total population of the canton of Zug amounted to 118,118. Indeed since the Nineties the population has grown incessantly, and it has been particularly strong over the past ten years. In fact 2010 was a record year when it was up by as much as 2%, due mainly to the good economic climate. Ever since 2007 the number of foreigners has increased in the canton of Zug in particular, with numbers of those settling here reaching 30,543, or 26%, in 2013.
 
In 2011, the percentage of foreigners living in Zug was about the same as in Zurich at 25%, both higher than the Swiss national average of 23%. However, over the past two years, the percentage of foreigners in Zug is now higher than that of Zurich, as mentioned.
 
As many as 515 people in the canton of Zug were granted Swiss citizenship in 2013, most of them German.
 
Further statistics can be downloaded on www.zg.ch/behoerden/baudirektion/stastistikfachstelle/themen