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Flensburg

A Schleswig-Holstein city on a fjord right at the Danish border, with a mixed German-Danish population and a harbour that once carried a busy rum trade with the Caribbean, leaving a still-active rum bottling industry behind. The federal vehicle registration authority is headquartered here, giving public administration an outsized role in the local economy.

The place

State
Schleswig-Holstein
Population
95,568as of December 2025 ·
Area
56.7 km²
Density
1,685 people per km²
Public holidays a year
10as of January 2026 ·

Work and pay

Unemployment rate
8.1%as of September 2026 ·
Median gross pay
€3,971 a monthas of December 2025 ·

Local taxes and charges

Grunderwerbsteuer
6.5%
Church tax
9%
Grundsteuer B, Hebesatz
690%as of January 2024 ·
Gewerbesteuer, Hebesatz
410%as of January 2024 ·

Housing

Asking price, apartments
€2,618 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
Asking rent, apartments
€9.51 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
Hausgeld
€3.40 per m² a month
Prices, last 12 months
-4.1%
A 70 m² flat
To buy€183,260
Closing costs on top+ €21,661
To rent, cold€666 a month
Asking rent, BBSR (re-lettings)
€9 per m² a monthas of July 2024 ·
Rent in existing tenancies (Zensus 2022)
€6.96 per m² a monthas of May 2022 ·
Vacant flats
2.8%as of May 2022 ·
Owner-occupiers
24.9%as of May 2022 ·
Paid price, resold flats
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Paid price, new flats
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Unemployment rate8.1%

Monthly, Bundesagentur für Arbeit.

Median gross pay a month€3,971

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

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