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Photo: Arnoldius, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5 Unemployment rate12.7% Median gross pay a month€4,184
Herne
A dense, compact city at the centre of the Ruhr, once thick with coal mines and now among the smallest in area of any German city its population size, which leaves it little room to reinvent itself the way its larger neighbours have. Services and small manufacturing have replaced the vanished pits, though the transition has left the city among the poorer corners of the region.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €1,726 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €7.82 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.30 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- -8.5%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €120,820 Closing costs on top + €14,281 To rent, cold €547 a month
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Monthly, Bundesagentur für Arbeit.
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 2019Oberer Gutachterausschuss NRW, Grundstücksmarktdaten NRW 2026
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten