Lurup is a quarter in the Altona borough of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg in northern Germany. It was a former independent town. In 2006 the population was 33,459.
In 1927 Lurup was merged into Altona, and in 1938 it was merged with Altona into Hamburg with the Greater Hamburg Act.
In 2006 according to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the quarter Lurup has a total area of 6.4 km².
The western border is the railway tracks of the city train to the quarter Eidelstedt of the borough Eimsbüttel. In the North is the state Schleswig-Holstein and in the East the quarter Osdorf. In the South is the border to the quarter Bahrenfeld.
In 2006 in the quarter Lurup were living 33,459 people. The population density was 5,247/km2 (13,590/sq mi). 19.7% were children under the age of 18, and 19.6% were 65 years of age or older. 15.3% were resident aliens. 2,003 people were registered as unemployed and 9,997 were employees subject to social insurance contributions.