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Photo: DiAuras, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 Unemployment rate8.1% Median gross pay a month€4,809
Leverkusen
A Rhineland city between Cologne and Düsseldorf built almost entirely by one company, the pharmaceutical and chemical group Bayer, whose main works and headquarters still anchor the local economy and give the city its name recognition abroad, not least through its football club. Beyond Bayer the economy stays close to chemicals and life sciences, with comparatively little else to diversify it.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €2,848 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €11.52 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.20 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- -6.1%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €199,360 Closing costs on top + €23,564 To rent, cold €806 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 2025Oberer Gutachterausschuss NRW, Grundstücksmarktdaten NRW 2026
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten