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Gera

A Thuringia city that grew wealthy on textile manufacturing in earlier decades, a prosperity still visible in its Art Nouveau townhouses, before industrial decline and depopulation since reunification left it with one of the emptier housing markets in eastern Germany. Services and smaller manufacturing have replaced the vanished textile mills, though recovery has been slower here than in Thuringia's larger cities.

The place

State
Thuringia
Population
95,162as of December 2025 ·
Area
152.2 km²
Density
625 people per km²
Public holidays a year
11as of January 2026 ·

Work and pay

Unemployment rate
10.5%as of September 2026 ·
Median gross pay
€3,444 a monthas of December 2025 ·

Local taxes and charges

Grunderwerbsteuer
5%
Church tax
9%
Grundsteuer B, Hebesatz
600%as of January 2024 ·
Gewerbesteuer, Hebesatz
464%as of January 2024 ·

Housing

Asking price, apartments
€1,475 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
Asking rent, apartments
€6.18 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
Hausgeld
€3.30 per m² a month
Prices, last 12 months
+6.1%
A 70 m² flat
To buy€103,250
Closing costs on top+ €10,655
To rent, cold€433 a month
Asking rent, BBSR (re-lettings)
€6 per m² a monthas of July 2024 ·
Rent in existing tenancies (Zensus 2022)
€5.13 per m² a monthas of May 2022 ·
Vacant flats
11.3%as of May 2022 ·
Owner-occupiers
23.1%as of May 2022 ·
Paid price, resold flats
€983 per m²as of July 2025 ·
Paid price, new flats
€4,080 per m²as of July 2022 ·

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Unemployment rate10.5%

Monthly, Bundesagentur für Arbeit.

Median gross pay a month€3,444

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

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