According to the data of the Population Manager of the Ministry of the Interior, as of November 2022, the number of residents living in Afula has crossed to 66,005 residents.
After the last year, 2,769 new residents joined the city (as of November 22) and it is possible that it will cross the threshold of 3,000 new residents at the end of December.
According to the data, it can be seen that the percentage of growth from November 2018 to November 2022 stands at a positive growth rate of 19.07%, with all the city's neighborhoods, without exception, enjoying positive growth in the last year, led by the green Afula neighborhood, which grew this year by 127 %, Lev Hamemek (C1) which grew by 23.62%, Jezreel district 8.73%, Givat Hamorah 1.27%, Afula Lower 1.96% and Afula Ilit by 3.32%. The average annual growth rate of Afula is about 4.38% per year, thus placing it The country is in the top ten with positive immigration after cities such as Yavneh, Harish, Beer Ya'akov and more.
Positive immigration to Afula - will open the year 2023 with 66,005 residents (photo: official website, photo: Afula municipality spokesperson)
The old residents of the city surely remember that in the 1980s and 1990s, Afula had around 20,000 inhabitants and suffered from negative immigration, mainly of the young people of the city who were looking for their way in the center of the country.
With the decision of Avi Alkabatz to "connect the disparities" massive construction began throughout the city and especially in the Jezreel quarter neighborhood which attracted thousands of new young families to the city, along with a construction boom in other neighborhoods throughout the city, and urban renewal in the old areas, which led to the positive growth of the last few years.
Mayor Avi Elkabatz: "Afula, the capital of the valley, has been considered in recent years to be the leading city in the north in a variety of areas such as education, culture and leisure, thriving commerce and growing employment, quality housing and convenient access and transportation including a central train station. In light of all this, it is no wonder that many families choose Determine their home in Afula."
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