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Photo: Ansgar Koreng, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 de Unemployment rate5.8% Median gross pay a month€4,755
Mainz
The capital of Rhineland-Palatinate on the Rhine opposite Wiesbaden, birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg and still a centre of publishing and broadcasting, with the public broadcaster ZDF headquartered here. Vineyards climb the hills around the city, and in recent years biotech firms spun out of the university have become a second pillar next to public administration and media.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €4,219 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €15.19 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.50 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- +0.2%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €295,330 Closing costs on top + €30,478 To rent, cold €1,063 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 2024mainz.de
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten