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Photo: Dr.G.Schmitz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 Unemployment rate8.9% Median gross pay a month€4,097
Witten
A Ruhr city on the Ruhr river itself, on the region's greener southern edge, once built on coal and steel like its neighbours but with an unusually large share of its area left as forest and parkland. A private university and smaller manufacturing firms have taken over from the closed mines, leaving an economy more modest and less industrial than the Ruhr cities further north.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €2,551 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €8.47 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.30 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- +4.2%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €178,570 Closing costs on top + €21,107 To rent, cold €593 a month
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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 2025Oberer Gutachterausschuss NRW, Grundstücksmarktdaten NRW 2026
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten