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Photo: Daniel Schwen, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5 Unemployment rate8.1% Median gross pay a month€4,099
Göttingen
A Lower Saxony university city whose faculty roll has included a striking number of Nobel laureates, still shaping an economy built on research, publishing and precision instruments rather than heavy industry. The old town around the market square survived the war and keeps much of its half-timbered character.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €2,897 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €12.02 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.20 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- -3.9%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €202,790 Closing costs on top + €20,928 To rent, cold €841 a month - Paid price, resold flats
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- Paid price, new flats
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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
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten