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• €5,900 in Ingolstadt leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €6,079 would in Berlin.

	18 wins Ingolstadt Bavaria · Open profile	1 win Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	140,799	3,913,644
People per km²	1,056	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	13	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	5.2%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€5,937	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	3.5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	8%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	400%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Ingolstadt, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€4,608	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€13.79	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	+1.2%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€13	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€9.16	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	3.8%	2%
Owner-occupiers	37.9%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	€4,000	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	€6,100	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€322,560	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€28,450	€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	€3,586	€3,586
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€965	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€2,621	€2,521
Rent as a share of netlower is better	26.9%	29.7%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	8.2	10
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€5,900	€6,079