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• €4,400 in Heilbronn leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,635 would in Berlin.

	14 wins Heilbronn Baden-Württemberg · Open profile	3 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	132,516	3,913,644
People per km²	1,327	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	12	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	6.9%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,441	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	8%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	420%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Heilbronn, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€3,533	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€13.45	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-1.9%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€12	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€8.49	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	4%	2%
Owner-occupiers	43.2%	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	€247,310	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€25,522	€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	€2,819	€2,819
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€942	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,877	€1,754
Rent as a share of netlower is better	33.4%	37.8%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	8.1	12.8
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,400	€4,635