Dresden of the population was female. the mean age of the population was 43 years, which is the lowest among the urban districts in Saxony. there were 34,7277 people with a migration background (6.3% of the population, down from 8.7% in 2013), and about half, 25,224 or about 3.6% of all Dresden citizens were foreigners. This percentage is down from 4.7% in 2013. Dresden is one of Germany's 16 political centres and the capital of Saxony. It has institutions of democratic local self-administration that are independent from the capital functions. Some local affairs of Dresden receive national attention. Dresden hosted some
Dresden-Klotzsche–Dresden Airport railway opening, the line has been operated as line S2 of the Dresden S-Bahn. Trains run every 30-minute intervals towards Dresden Hauptbahnhof and on weekdays continue to Heidenau and Pirna. Under the Dresden land-use plan that has been in force since the end of 1996, routes for both a connecting curve to the north of Dresden-Klotzsche station and an extension of the line towards Dresden Industriegelände railway station to the southwest of the airport are reserved. If these plans are implemented, it would be possible, for example, for trains to continue to east Saxony without reversing at the airport. The zoning