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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs together with several Expat Centres in The Netherlands issued a report looking into the amount of expats in the south of Holland in 2015.<\/p>\n
Income<\/b> Eindhoven, expat-champion of the South.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Also, the report refers to employees. Foreign entrepeneurs are not expats. However, definitions of the term differ.\u00a0The Dutch dictionary\u00a0describes the expat as ‘someone who temporarily lives abroad for work’. For E52’s\u00a0onze expat top-10<\/a>\u00a0both candidates who wanted to remain in the Netherlands as well as foreign entrepeneurs were mixed in.<\/p>\n According to the\u00a0CBS the expat is someone who was born abroad and makes more money than the average Dutch employee (31 percent\u00a0of all expats in The Netherlands make\u00a0over a\u00a0100 thousand\u00a0dollars per year, a percentage that’s below average in comparison to other countries percentage: 56).<\/p>\n Furthermore, the CBS describes the expat as someone that is highly qualified, does not want to live in the Netherlands for the rest of his or her life and ‘barely feels connected to Dutch values’.<\/p>\n Living in Eindhoven<\/strong> Which is the same as the definition the city of Eindhoven and the expat center generally use, according to Ed Heerschap, co\u00f6rdinator Living-in for\u00a0city of\u00a0Eindhoven. Although Heerschap is trying to resist the last two points mentioned by the CBS.<\/p>\n Heerschap: “My job is to focus on connecting the expat with our Dutch values and culture. This way, the international talent will remain here for as long as possible.”<\/p>\n Numbers<\/strong> Out of the total group of\u00a09.747 foreign employees, approximately about 8.900\u00a0are living in Eindhoven. \u00a0How that group is divided between expats and working migrants, has not been researched.<\/p>\n The Eindhoven-expats are mostly made up of Germans (10%), Belgians (10%) and\u00a0Brits\u00a0(9%), followed by Indians (7%) and Poles (5%).<\/p>\n Those numbers make Eindhoven the champions of the South when it comes to employing foreignors. The cities of Venlo and Venray, both with around 7.000 international employees make up the top three.<\/p>\n The number of international workers who are actually living in those cities however is much lower. Venray: 850 and Venlo: 2.200. Eindhoven is\u00a0the only city in Brabant in the top three.<\/p>\n Read all <\/a>stories that have been made following a question filed by our readers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our reader\u00a0Linda van de Ven was interested in knowing how many expats were living in Eindhoven. 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\nThe report seperates migrant workers from expats, based on the amount of money they make. An expat, younger than 30 years has to make over 27.109 euro per year. Once the expat turns 30, that amount increases to 36.407 euro. If the yearly income is less, the expat becomes a working migrant.<\/p>\n
\nTo try and answer the question our reader asked, we stick to a combination of the\u00a0definition given by the report issued by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the CBS-report.<\/p>\n
\nPerhaps that attitude towards the expats is part of what makes the result of the report issued by the Dutch governmens. Which states that\u00a0in 2013, there were precisely\u00a09.747 economically-active, international\u00a0employees\u00a0in Eindhoven.\u00a0 Within that number, there is a group of 3.392 expats, the rest are working migrants.<\/p>\n