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Photo: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 Unemployment rate11.6% Median gross pay a month€4,057
Oberhausen
A Ruhr city built almost entirely on coal and steel until both collapsed in the late twentieth century, leaving behind a landscape the city has since turned into parks, museums and a landmark gasometer used as an exhibition hall. The old steelworks site is now one of Europe's largest shopping and leisure complexes, and services have largely replaced the vanished heavy industry.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €2,171 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €8.50 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.30 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- +3.4%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €151,970 Closing costs on top + €17,963 To rent, cold €595 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