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Photo: Hannibal21, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 Unemployment rate8.8% Median gross pay a month€3,991
Solingen
A hill city in the Bergisches Land above Wuppertal, known for centuries as the City of Blades for a cutlery and knife-making trade that still carries the name abroad even as the workshops have shrunk. Metalworking and toolmaking remain a larger share of the local economy than in most German cities its size, alongside a growing service sector.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €2,578 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €9.78 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.40 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- +1%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €180,460 Closing costs on top + €21,330 To rent, cold €685 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 2022Oberer Gutachterausschuss NRW, Grundstücksmarktdaten NRW 2026
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten