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Pomerelia wasn't part of the HRE and didn't have such strong economic ties with states in it, so germanisation wasn't as strong in the XII, XIII centuries as in eg. Silesia or polish Western/german Hinter (Back) Pomerania. When the Teutons took over, they already encountered a "developed" local feudal society (unlike the prussians, who were still functioning as tribes), so the Ostsiedlung on their part wasn't as intense.
Prussia's original population had been slowly exterminated/assimilated since the Teutons took over (five prussian uprisings decimated martial and economic resistance) and over time the north coastal flat regions and the western Vistula bordering lands were dominated by germanic settlers (who dominated also most urban settlements too), the south-east was settled by refugees from Mazovia (they became the Mazurs later, the protestant poles of Prussia) and in the east there remained mainly indegenous baltic communities (who also motted the rest of Prussia, comprising at the beginning of the XV century some 50% of the total population).
In Pomerelia (east Pomerania) germanisation hadn't proceeded as much - the very cities that were founded on Mageburg law were germanic, as the settlers were invited from modern day Germany (but so was the majority of Krakow, the capital of Poland, in the XIV century and pretty much each city east of the Elbe river that was founded on Magedburg rights). Ubranisation at that time was low in general, 10-20 percent lived in cities in Poland (in Prussia it was around 20-30), the rest of the population that was relatively indigenous lived in the countryside.