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• €4,100 in Villingen-Schwenningen leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,703 would in Berlin.

	16 wins Villingen-Schwenningen Baden-Württemberg · Open profile	1 win Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	89,766	3,913,644
People per km²	542	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	12	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	6.3%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,126	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	8%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	390%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Villingen-Schwenningen, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€2,617	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€10.67	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-4.2%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€9	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€7.12	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	3.9%	2%
Owner-occupiers	46.9%	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	€183,190	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€18,905	€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	€2,659	€2,659
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€747	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,912	€1,594
Rent as a share of netlower is better	28.1%	40%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	6.3	13.5
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,100	€4,703