Area
Tel Aviv-Yafo 's municipal jurisdiction covers an area of 51.4 sq kms. The latest data from 2007 shows that some 19% of its total area - about 9.6 sq kms - is open, "green" area (parks, groves, and gardens).

Demographics
Population and Households
The population of Tel Aviv-Yafo totals 390,100, this figure does not include the tens of thousands of migratory workers who live in the city as well as resident students who have not changed their registered address.

For two decades, beginning in the mid 60's, the city's population decreased, in the early 90's this trend was reversed, and the population began to grow – due primarily to the wave of immigration from the former USSR. The population peaked in 1993 at 357,400, than dropped again until 1995. From then on it remained more or less stable until 1998. Since 1999 there has been a moderate growth, the population increase percentage per year fluctuates from 0.8% to 2.2%. In the last couple of years it remained around 1.5%.

At the end of 2007 the number of households in Tel Aviv-Yafo totaled 161,500. The average population per household was 2.3 as compared with the national average of 3.3. Average household population had been declining in the city since the beginning of the 60's.

An estimated 49,400 of Tel Aviv-Yafo 's residents in December 2007 (some 12.7% of the total) were new immigrants who had arrived since 1990 most of them live in the city's southern neighborhoods. In average the new immigrants are slightly older than the general population of the city with a median age of 35.2 as compared with 34.2 overall.

Age Structure and Family Status
The average age of residents is relatively advanced, with a low proportion of children (17.6% between the ages of -0-14, compared with a national average of 28.4%) and a high proportion of senior citizens (14.1% as compared with a national average of 9.8%), according to the latest data of 2007. Evidence exists of a halt in the aging trend and even of its reversal, especially in the older northern neighborhoods and the city center. Since the 80's there has been a gradual drop in the median urban age - from 35.8 in the census of 1983 to 34.2 in 2007. By comparison, in 2007 the national median age was 28.7.

The proportion of single-parent families in Tel Aviv-Yafo is high - 21.4% of all families with children in December 2007, as compared with a national average of only 12.5%. In fact, since the beginning of the '90, the number of single parent families in the city has doubled.

In comparison with other Israeli cities, Tel Aviv-Yafo is home to a large population of unmarried men and women: 40.8% of the men and 34.6% of the women in 2006, as compared with a national average of 34.3% and 26.9% respectively.

Tel Aviv-Yafo as an Employment Center
The number of employed persons in Tel Aviv-Yafo reached 366,200 in 2007. The city is a national employment center, where 14% of all those employed throughout Israel in 2007 worked, as compared with 9% (240,700) in Jerusalem, and 6% )162,700) in Haifa.

Relatively high concentrations of workers in Tel Aviv-Yafo are employed in the following economic branches: business services – 25%; wholesale and retail trade – 13%; industry – 9%; banking, insurance and finances – 6%. As compared with Jerusalem, Haifa and Israel in general, employment in Tel Aviv-Yafo focuses to a larger degree on the financial-economic sector. In fact, the employment data clearly highlight the status of the city as a national financial-economic center 36% of all those employed nationally in the banking, insurance and financial sector work in Tel Aviv-Yafo, as do 24% of all those employed in business services. No fewer than 17% of Israel's banking offices are situated in the city, and 54% of the country's bank employees work here.

In 2007 37% of those employed in Tel Aviv – Yafo were Tel Aviv residents, 54% lived elsewhere in the greater metropolitan area and 9% commuted from beyond. The city residents worked mainly in sales and services (22% of all those employed), clerical positions (14%) and the academic professions (21%). As compared with the national average, a high proportion of Tel Aviv-Yafo residents work in these fields, whereas the proportion of city residents employed as blue-collar workers is relatively low.