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• €4,900 in Heidelberg leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,854 would in Berlin.

	12 wins Heidelberg Baden-Württemberg · Open profile	5 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	156,092	3,913,644
People per km²	1,433	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	12	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	5.1%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,867	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	8%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	400%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Heidelberg, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€4,894	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€15.55	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	+0.4%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€14	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€10.02	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	3.4%	2%
Owner-occupiers	25.9%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	–	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	–	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€342,580	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€35,354	€43,851
With this salaryBetween cities the net changes only through the state: church tax (8% in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, 9% elsewhere, members only) and Saxony's higher employee share of care insurance. Wage tax and the other contributions are federal, so what differs here is mostly the rent.
Net payhigher is better	€3,079	€3,079
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€1,089	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,990	€2,014
Rent as a share of netlower is better	35.4%	34.6%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	10.2	11.7
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,900	€4,854