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Photo: Kora27, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 Unemployment rate10.1% Median gross pay a month€3,794
Chemnitz
Saxony's third city, an engineering and textile-machinery centre rebuilt in socialist style, European Capital of Culture 2025, with the lowest housing costs of any city in this list. The population is older and the market slow, which is the trade-off behind the prices.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €1,113 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €5.99 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.30 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- -1.7%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €77,910 Closing costs on top + €8,430 To rent, cold €419 a month - Paid price, resold flats
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- Paid price, new flats
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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
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten