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Photo: Dirk Weishaar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 Unemployment rate11.7% Median gross pay a month€4,305
Saarbrücken
The capital of Saarland on the French border, a coal and steel city that reinvented itself as the mines closed, with close cultural and economic ties across the frontier that show in bilingual signage and a large share of French commuters. Services, public administration and a growing IT and cybersecurity cluster around the university now carry more weight than the coal that once defined it.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €2,184 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €10.12 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.30 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- -3.2%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €152,880 Closing costs on top + €18,070 To rent, cold €708 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 2023regionalverband-saarbruecken.de
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten