All cities
Düsseldorf
Photo: Kai Pilger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Düsseldorf

Capital of North Rhine-Westphalia and a centre for corporate headquarters, advertising, fashion, consulting and trade fairs, with a large Japanese community. The most expensive city in the state to buy in, though rents are close to Cologne's.

Official website Wikidata

The place

State
North Rhine-Westphalia
Population
619,444as of December 2025 ·
Area
217.4 km²
Density
2,849 people per km²
Public holidays a year
11as of January 2026 ·

Work and pay

Unemployment rate
8.2%as of September 2026 ·
Median gross pay
€5,004 a monthas of December 2025 ·

Local taxes and charges

Grunderwerbsteuer
6.5%
Church tax
9%
Grundsteuer B, Hebesatz
440%as of January 2024 ·
Gewerbesteuer, Hebesatz
440%as of January 2024 ·

Housing

Asking price, apartments
€4,775 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
Asking rent, apartments
€14.76 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
Hausgeld
€3.70 per m² a month
Prices, last 12 months
+4.1%
A 70 m² flat
To buy€334,250
Closing costs on top+ €39,508
To rent, cold€1,033 a month
Asking rent, BBSR (re-lettings)
€13 per m² a monthas of July 2024 ·
Rent in existing tenancies (Zensus 2022)
€9.24 per m² a monthas of May 2022 ·
Vacant flats
2.9%as of May 2022 ·
Owner-occupiers
22.1%as of May 2022 ·
Paid price, resold flats
€3,959 per m²as of July 2025 ·
Paid price, new flats
€7,038 per m²as of July 2025 ·

With your own numbers

The numbers above describe a stranger. The calculators take your own salary, tax class and household and work them through for this city.

Buy or rent hereYour net payCompare with another city

Over time

How these numbers have moved. Each series gains a point whenever new figures are published.

Unemployment rate8.2%

Monthly, Bundesagentur für Arbeit.

Median gross pay a month€5,004

Each 31 December, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, full-time employees by workplace.

Where these numbers come from