Population of Düsseldorf in 2025 was 618 685, making it the second largest city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the seventh largest city in Germany. It is also the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia and the central city of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the largest in Germany.
Population in boroughs of Düsseldorf in 2025
Düsseldorf is subdivided into 16 boroughs (Stadtbezirke) each having between 25 000 and 120 000 inhabitants. The most populous borough is Stadtbezirk 3. The figures shown in the map below are as of 2022-12-31, and are according to estimates. Thus the combined population of all boroughs might be different than the official figure of the whole city of Düsseldorf.
Düsseldorf metropolitan area
The Düsseldorf urban area has approximately 1.3 million inhabitants. Düsseldorf is also part of the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region that has over 11 million inhabitants and is the most populous metropolitan region in Germany and of the largest in Europe.