Territorial features of the demographic development of the Stavropol urban agglomeration

Abstract

The article is devoted to the intra-agglomeration features of the demographic development of the Stavropol urban agglomeration. The object of the study is the population of the Stavropol agglomeration. The empirical basis is the official statistics of current population accounting developed by Rosstat for the North Caucasus Federal District and data from the All-Union (1989), All-Russian (2002, 2010, 2021) population censuses, as well as data obtained through processing databases of Internet services for posting real estate listings CIAN, Avito, which the authors define as big data. Geoinformation technologies were used to implement the analytical part of the study. The materials are presented in the form of tables and cartographs reflecting the demographic aspects of the study and the dynamics of urban development in Stavropol and Mikhailovsk. Four zones have formed on the territory of the Stavropol agglomeration, within which the nature of demographic development is changing from the center to the periphery — population dynamics, the scale of housing commissioning is decreasing, and the cost of residential premises is decreasing. It is revealed that the rate of development of territories correlates with the rate of population growth. The settlements of the agglomeration are becoming a zone of preferred settlement not only for Russians, but also for Armenians, Gypsies, North Caucasian and other peoples. In Stavropol, the core of the agglomeration, the ethnic structure of the population is changing, including due to active educational migrations. These processes also have an impact on the age structure, in particular, the youngest residents of the agglomeration live in the zone of intensive population growth (Stavropol and the suburbs), when, as in the zone of intensive decline, the average age of residents is higher.