This article is about the city of Saue. Saue is also a rural municipality around the city.

Saue is a little city near Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, in the Harju County, constituting a separate municipality.

The territory of Saue is 350 ha and population about 5000. Closest centres are Tallinn - 18 km, Keila - 7 km, Saku - 7 km and Laagri - 7 km.

Table of contents
1 Timeline
2 Location
3 People
4 Usage of land

Timeline

  • 1920 - Garden suburb started to arise,
  • 1960 - Saue garden suburb was united with Tallinn,
  • 1973 - Saue garden suburb was renamed to Saue village,
  • 1993 - Saue village was renamed to Saue town,
  • 1994 - Saue was separated from Tallinn.

Location

Saue is on a very favourable position because of its location near
Tallinn. It lures a lot of medium rich people, who like to live in a small town close to the nature and at the same close to all kinds of entertainment, jobs etc. that Tallinn has to offer.

People

93 % of the people living in Saue are ethnic Estonians. Average age of people is 35. Over the years cencus of the population has shown, that the population is slowly growing - 1959 there was 1088 people living in Saue, 1970 it was 1979, in year 1979 it was 3293, in 1989 the population was 4395, in 1995 it was 4492 and 2000 it was 4996.

Usage of land

In Saue there is 130 ha of private plots (average size of a plot is about 700 squaremeters) - 1015 plots, about 35 ha of communal buildigs, garages etc., 25 ha of industrial areas, Streets and roads about 30 ha (there is 62 streets in Saue - about 21 kilometers), about 112 ha of forests, parks etc. and about 15 ha of fields.