Bnei Brak: densely populated city in the country - even more crowded

Number of residents of Bnei Brak stands, according to the CBS Ministry of the Interior on about 186,748, in the year 2015, compared with 182,916 in 2014, an increase of about four thousand people.

Avraham Tennenbaum, municipal secretary and spokesman, said that contrary to various statistics and the latest figure most reliable is the Bureau of Ministry of the Interior. The latest statistics Bnei Brak is from 28.12.14.

He added that according to data of the Ministry of Interior dimension, proportion of city residents is steadily increasing and in a continuous manner, and despite land hardship, as Bnei Brak was built 90 years ago and was planned for 10,000 residents.

At the same time, several programs recently approved construction of residential buildings, including the plan for 560 units on Levinsky complex on Rabbi Kahneman Street and more.

Distribution by age is: from 0 to 5: 33,886; from 12-6: 30 796; from 17-13: 18 612; from 21-18: 14 130; from 40-22: 44 860; from 60-41: 25 162; Over 60-19302. According to the data of the Central Bureau of Statistics, the average number of persons per family in Bnei Brak is 4.2, and is the highest among large and medium cities in the country.

Bnei Brak is the most congested city in Israel and among the most crowded in the world. It includes 23 490 persons per square kilometer. In comparison, the to city of Gaza has 8153 people per square kilometer.


The increase in the number of city residents deriving from birth and residents of other cities, and many apartments as well as acquisition by young couples in the old neighborhoods such as Shikun Gimmel, Shikun Hei and Pardes Katz.

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