Thanks to fresh data published by the Central Statistics Office (CSB) on August 2, it's possible to get some additional insight into the demographic make-up of the city, which had 52 thousand inhabitants in total at the beginning of this year.
A third of these seaside residents (16,821 or 32.3%) live in the Kauguri suburb. Every tenth (5,544 or 10.6%) resident of Jūrmala lives in Sloka, the second largest neighborhood in terms of population.
7.9% (4,110) of the population live in the third largest neighborhood Melluži, 7.8% (4,072) in the fourth largest neighborhood, Majori. Next comes Bulduri with 6.2% (3,210), Dubulti with 5.6% (2,901), Dzintari with 4.6% (2,393), Ķemeri with 3.9% (2,014), Asari with 3.4 % (1,752) of the population, and Lielupe closes the top ten with 3.1% (1,597) of the population.
There are more than a thousand inhabitants in two smaller neighborhoods: Valteri (1,081) and Kaugurciems (1,045). In ten neighborhoods, the number of seasiders can be written with a three-digit number: Vaivari (866), Buļľuciems (721), Jaundubulti (677), Priedaine (666), Pumpuri (659), Krastciems (535), Druvciems (295), Bražciems (202), Vārnukrogs (188) and Stirnurags (125).
Among the 26 neighborhoods of Jūrmala, the smallest numbers of inhabitants can be found in Jaunķemeri (58), Bažciems (59), Branķuciems (81) and Kūdra (85). So while these lesser-known and poorer neighborhoods might not usually be talked of as the most "exclusive" parts of Jūrmala, in a way, they are.
Interestingly, the average share of ethnic Latvians in Jūrmala is 52% – a very narrow majority. Proportionally, the least number of Latvians live in Kūdra (28%), Vārnukrogs (30%) and Jaunķemeri (31%).
Meanwhile the average share of ethnic Russians in Jūrmala is 32%. In Vārnukrogs, more than half (56%) of the population is Russian, and in Kūdra almost half (49%). The smallest populations of Russians are in Melluži (17%), Bažciems (18%), Asari and Krastciems (19% each).
The proportion of children under the age of 17 in Jūrmala is 17% on average.
