 Over 80% of the district's apartments have been built before 1960, and a little over 10% in the 1980s, when production of new apartments was being directed towards Katajanokka.The education level of the inhabitants of the district is the highest of all main districts in the city - 36.4% of the inhabitants have a university degree.10.6% of the district's inhabitants are native Swedish-speaking (as of 1 January 2005), which is clearly higher than the city average.