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Krefeld

A Lower Rhine city long known as Germany's centre for silk and velvet weaving, a trade whose grand merchant villas still line parts of the centre. Today the economy is steel, chemicals and machinery, and the textile heritage survives more in the name than in the factories.

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The place

State
North Rhine-Westphalia
Population
230,738as of December 2025 ·
Area
137.8 km²
Density
1,675 people per km²
Public holidays a year
11as of January 2026 ·

Work and pay

Unemployment rate
10.8%as of September 2026 ·
Median gross pay
€4,449 a monthas of December 2025 ·

Local taxes and charges

Grunderwerbsteuer
6.5%
Church tax
9%
Grundsteuer B, Hebesatz
533%as of January 2024 ·
Gewerbesteuer, Hebesatz
480%as of January 2024 ·

Housing

Asking price, apartments
€2,387 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
Asking rent, apartments
€9.95 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
Hausgeld
€3.30 per m² a month
Prices, last 12 months
-4.6%
A 70 m² flat
To buy€167,090
Closing costs on top+ €19,750
To rent, cold€697 a month
Asking rent, BBSR (re-lettings)
€9 per m² a monthas of July 2024 ·
Rent in existing tenancies (Zensus 2022)
€6.66 per m² a monthas of May 2022 ·
Vacant flats
4%as of May 2022 ·
Owner-occupiers
36%as of May 2022 ·
Paid price, resold flats
€2,258 per m²as of July 2025 ·
Paid price, new flats
€3,920 per m²as of July 2021 ·

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Unemployment rate10.8%

Monthly, Bundesagentur für Arbeit.

Median gross pay a month€4,449

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