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Photo: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 Unemployment rate8.2% Median gross pay a month€3,936
Bottrop
A Ruhr city at its northern edge that closed the last hard-coal mine in Germany, ending an industry that had defined the whole region for generations, and has since rebranded itself around renewable energy and green urban redevelopment. Services and smaller manufacturing have taken over from mining, and the city markets its post-industrial transformation as a model for the wider Ruhr.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €2,382 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €8.57 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.30 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- +0.8%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €166,740 Closing costs on top + €19,709 To rent, cold €600 a month
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Monthly, Bundesagentur für Arbeit.
Each 31 December, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, full-time employees by workplace.
Where these numbers come from
- September 2026immoportal.com
- July 2024BBSR, Laufende Raumbeobachtung (INKAR)Datenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0
- May 2022Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, Zensus 2022Datenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0
- January 2024Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, Regionaldatenbank DeutschlandDatenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0
- December 2025Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Entgeltstatistik
- July 2025Oberer Gutachterausschuss NRW, Grundstücksmarktdaten NRW 2026
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten