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Halle (Saale)
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Halle (Saale)

A Saxony-Anhalt university city on the Saale, birthplace of the composer Handel, whose old town survived the war largely intact even as decades of chemical industry left an environmental legacy the city has since worked to clean up. The economy today mixes biotechnology, media and the university with the shrinking remnants of the old chemical works nearby.

The place

State
Saxony-Anhalt
Population
226,186as of December 2025 ·
Area
135 km²
Density
1,675 people per km²
Public holidays a year
11as of January 2026 ·

Work and pay

Unemployment rate
10%as of September 2026 ·
Median gross pay
€3,902 a monthas of December 2025 ·

Local taxes and charges

Grunderwerbsteuer
5%
Church tax
9%
Grundsteuer B, Hebesatz
500%as of January 2024 ·
Gewerbesteuer, Hebesatz
450%as of January 2024 ·

Housing

Asking price, apartments
€2,289 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
Asking rent, apartments
€7.80 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
Hausgeld
€3.30 per m² a month
Prices, last 12 months
+6.5%
A 70 m² flat
To buy€160,230
Closing costs on top+ €16,536
To rent, cold€546 a month
Asking rent, BBSR (re-lettings)
€8 per m² a monthas of July 2024 ·
Rent in existing tenancies (Zensus 2022)
€5.92 per m² a monthas of May 2022 ·
Vacant flats
7.7%as of May 2022 ·
Owner-occupiers
16.8%as of May 2022 ·
Paid price, resold flats
€2,022 per m²as of July 2025 ·
Paid price, new flats
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Unemployment rate10%

Monthly, Bundesagentur für Arbeit.

Median gross pay a month€3,902

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

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