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Photo: Gütsel Print und Online, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 Unemployment rate6.4% Median gross pay a month€3,954
Gütersloh
A Westphalian city that grew rich on furniture manufacturing and mail-order retail, home to one of Europe's largest furniture makers and to a media company whose television and publishing arms remain based here. The surrounding countryside is still largely agricultural, giving the city a quieter, more rural feel than its Ruhr-adjacent neighbours.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €3,025 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €9.98 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.20 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- +5%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €211,750 Closing costs on top + €25,029 To rent, cold €699 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 2025Oberer Gutachterausschuss NRW, Grundstücksmarktdaten NRW 2026
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten