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Photo: Heidas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 Unemployment rate6.6% Median gross pay a month€5,295
Darmstadt
A Hesse city that markets itself as a science city, home to a technical university with a strong engineering reputation and to the European centre that has tracked and controlled European spacecraft for decades. IT, engineering and research institutes employ a large share of the workforce, giving it one of the more research-heavy economies of its size in Germany.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €4,440 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €15.16 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.90 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- +1.6%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €310,800 Closing costs on top + €33,349 To rent, cold €1,061 a month
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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 2024gaa-darmstadt.de
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten