Living in Kapfenberg

In Kapfenberg, unemployment is 7.2% (2024).

The unemployment rate was 7.2% at the end of 2024. Kapfenberg had a population of 21,907 at the start of 2025. For Kapfenberg, the foreign population count was 5,102 at the start of 2026.

Last checked 2026-09-2422 sources

Population21,907people1 Jan 2025Official source · Archived AT round-01 G01 population evidence

Median gross salary (region)3,296EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Brutto- und Nettojahreseinkommen der unselbständig Erwerbstätigen nach Bundesländern 2024

Average net rent7.4EUR/m²/month31 Dec 2025Regional figureOfficial source · Durchschnittliche Nettomiete und Betriebskosten von Hauptmietwohnungen nach Bundesland (Zeitreihe), Tabelle 3

Unemployment rate7.2%country median 4.8% — 52% aboveOfficial source · Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2024 — Key Results, municipalities

Recorded crime4,015incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2023District figureOfficial source · Sicherheitsbericht 2023 – Kriminalität, Vorbeugung und Bekämpfung, Anhang; Kriminalitätsbericht 2023, district frequency tables

PM2.5, annual mean9.99µg/m³31 Dec 2024Nearest stationOfficial source · Annual AQ statistics (AirBase & e-Reporting merged)

Which Austria-wide rules apply when you move to Kapfenberg?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

Visa and entry rulesPassport-specific entry and national residence context.BenefitsCountry-wide eligibility and official application routes.Taxes in AustriaNational rates and thresholds that apply in Kapfenberg.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€30

Mobile plan, 10 GB€10

Net rent across major citiesKapfenberg highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Vienna€7.90

Innsbruck€7.58

Salzburg€6.92

Graz€6.33

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	29.9 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	A1 Internet 100¹Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	9.9 EUR/month	30 Apr 2026	bob Flex 100GB⁵Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	7.4 EUR/m²/month	31 Dec 2025	Durchschnittliche Nettomiete und Betriebskosten von Hauptmietwohnungen nach Bundesland (Zeitreihe), Tabelle 3⁷Official · regional context
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	474.2 EUR/month	31 Dec 2025	Durchschnittliche Nettomiete und Betriebskosten von Hauptmietwohnungen nach Bundesland (Zeitreihe), Tabelle 3⁷Official · regional context

Is Kapfenberg a good place to live?

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Remote worker59%strong on work, weak on safety · range 50–68%

Skilled employee61%strong on work, weak on education · range 52–70%

Student62%strong on cost, weak on education · range 51–73%

Family54%strong on family, weak on education · range 43–65%

Retirement60%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 49–71%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Kapfenberg?

The unemployment rate is 7.2 % (2024). Source: Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2024 — Key Results, municipalities¹²

Unemployment across cities in AustriaUnemployment in Kapfenberg is 7.2%. Of 278 cities with data, 65 have unemployment of 4 to under 5%.

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Kapfenberg 7.2%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Employment rate	70.1 %	31 Dec 2024	Statistik Austria¹⁴Official
Median gross salary (regional)	3,296 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Brutto- und Nettojahreseinkommen der unselbständig Erwerbstätigen nach Bundesländern 2024⁶Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	7.2 %country median 4.8%	31 Dec 2024	Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2024 — Key Results, municipalities¹²Official

What does a salary buy in Kapfenberg?

Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.

Left over each month€1,968of €2,452 take-home

Rent
Internet
Mobile
Left over

Line-by-line breakdown and sources

Each month	€
Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions.	€2,452
Rent, 60 m²€7.40/m² · official · Durchschnittliche Nettomiete und Betriebskosten von Hauptmietwohnungen nach Bundesland (Zeitreihe), Tabelle 3 · 2025-12-31	− €444
Internet€30 · official · A1 Internet 100 · 2026-09-30	− €30
Mobile plan€10 · official · bob Flex 100GB · 2026-04-30	− €10
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	€1,968

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Kapfenberg. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information

Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich — Public employment service

Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich (AMS)

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Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Kapfenberg. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Safety

How safe is Kapfenberg?

Police recorded about 4,015 incidents per 100,000 (2023). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Sicherheitsbericht 2023 – Kriminalität, Vorbeugung und Bekämpfung, Anhang; Kriminalitätsbericht 2023, district frequency tables¹³

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	4,015 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2023	Sicherheitsbericht 2023 – Kriminalität, Vorbeugung und Bekämpfung, Anhang; Kriminalitätsbericht 2023, district frequency tables¹³Official · county

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Kapfenberg. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

ÖIF German-learning and integration centres — Welcome Program

Österreichischer Integrationsfonds (ÖIF)

For migrants and newcomers.

GermanIn Person, Online

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ÖIF individual language-course funding and partner institutes — State Language Course

Österreichischer Integrationsfonds (ÖIF)

For eligible migrants.

GermanIn PersonSubsidised

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Climate and air quality

Annual NO₂ was 13 µg/m³ at the end of 2024. Annual PM10 was 17.4 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Is the air quality good in Kapfenberg?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 10 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³.

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

PM2.5 — annual mean: 9.99 µg/m³ · Annual AQ statistics (AirBase & e-Reporting merged)²

Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³

PM2.510WHO 5 · EU 25

PM1017.4WHO 15 · EU 40

NO₂13WHO 10 · EU 40

City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.

PM2.5 across cities in AustriaAnnual PM2.5 in Kapfenberg is 10.0 µg/m³. Of 118 cities with data, 38 have annual PM2.5 of 10 to under 11 µg/m³.

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Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
NO₂ — annual mean	12.99 µg/m³country median 14.2	31 Dec 2024	Official EEA E1a station annual stream, exact station point inside the target Gemeinde; place value is the documented unweighted mean of station means.⁹Official
NO₂ — latest reading	8 µg/m³	15 Jul 2026	Official UBA NO2 TMW capture on 2026-07-15, exact station point inside the target Gemeinde; place value is the same-day unweighted mean.¹¹Official
PM10 — annual mean	17.37 µg/m³country median 15.6	31 Dec 2024	Official EEA E1a station annual stream, exact station point inside the target Gemeinde; place value is the documented unweighted mean of station means.¹⁰Official
PM2.5 — annual mean	9.99 µg/m³	31 Dec 2024	Annual AQ statistics (AirBase & e-Reporting merged)²Official · nearest-station reading

Population and city profile

The city covered 82 km² in 2025. Population density was 267.1 people per km² in 2025.

How many people live in Kapfenberg?

The published population was 21,907 people in January 2025. Source: Archived AT round-01 G01 population evidence³

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport76.7%
Foreign residents23.3%

Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	82.03 km²	1 Jan 2025	Gemeinden 2025-01-01 WFS geometry⁸Official
Foreign-resident share	22.7 %	31 Dec 2024	Statistik Austria¹⁴Official
Foreign residents	5,102 people	1 Jan 2026	Bevölkerung am 01.01.2026 nach Staatsangehörigkeit und administrativen Gebietseinheiten⁴Official
Population density	267.1 people/km²	1 Jan 2025	Reproducible Gemeinde density from archived official population_total 2025-01-01 divided by official 2025 Gemeinde geometry area.⁸Official
Population	21,907 people	1 Jan 2025	Archived AT round-01 G01 population evidence³Official

International community in Kapfenberg

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Country of birth

Population with main residence, current territorial structure, 1 January 2026, total sex · 2026-01-01

Published group	People	Share
Population total	21,796	100.0%
Austria	16,643	76.4%
Non-Austria	5,153	23.6%
EU and EFTA states (including United Kingdom)	2,665	12.2%
EU Member States (26)	2,625	12.0%
Third countries	2,488	11.4%
EU Member States since 2004 (13)	2,218	10.2%
Europe including Türkiye	1,986	9.1%
Romania	1,308	6.0%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,089	5.0%

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Published group	People	Share
Croatia	429	2.0%
EU Member States before 2004 (13)	407	1.9%
Asia	320	1.5%
Germany	259	1.2%
Hungary	239	1.1%
Serbia	220	1.0%
Ukraine	192	0.9%
Türkiye	95	0.4%
Africa	90	0.4%
America	85	0.4%
Latin America	69	0.3%
Syria	62	0.3%
EFTA states, associated microstates and United Kingdom	40	0.2%
North America	16	0.1%
Oceania	7	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁴

Citizenship

Population with main residence, current territorial structure, 1 January 2026, total sex · 2026-01-01

Published group	People	Share
Population total	21,796	100.0%
Austria	16,694	76.6%
Non-Austria	5,102	23.4%
EU and EFTA states (including United Kingdom)	3,358	15.4%
EU Member States (26)	3,345	15.3%
EU Member States since 2004 (13)	3,060	14.0%
Third countries	1,744	8.0%
Romania	1,567	7.2%
Europe including Türkiye	1,336	6.1%
Croatia	1,044	4.8%

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Published group	People	Share
Bosnia and Herzegovina	448	2.1%
EU Member States before 2004 (13)	285	1.3%
Asia	281	1.3%
Hungary	272	1.2%
Ukraine	193	0.9%
Serbia	185	0.8%
Germany	161	0.7%
Türkiye	91	0.4%
Africa	70	0.3%
Syria	67	0.3%
America	56	0.3%
Latin America	44	0.2%
EFTA states, associated microstates and United Kingdom	13	0.1%
North America	12	0.1%
Unknown / unsettled / stateless	1	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁴

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Households	10,543 households	31 Dec 2024	Statistik Austria¹⁴Official

Alternatives for people set on Kapfenberg

Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.

Trofaiach as a Kapfenberg alternative in the same region

21 km away, better on 1 of 7 metrics measured the same way, worse on 2.

Unemployment: 3.9% Trofaiach vs 7.2% Kapfenberg−46%
Foreign residents: 8.3% Trofaiach vs 22.7% Kapfenberg−63%
Residents: 11,030 Trofaiach vs 21,907 Kapfenberg−50%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,257 Trofaiach vs 4,015 Kapfenberg+6%
Rent: €7.40/m² Trofaiach vs €7.40/m² Kapfenbergsame level
Median gross pay, region: €3,296 Trofaiach vs €3,296 Kapfenbergsame level
Annual PM2.5: 10.0 µg/m³ Trofaiach vs 10.0 µg/m³ Kapfenbergsame level

Full comparison More about Trofaiach

Villach as a Kapfenberg alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 143 km, better on 2 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 65,749 Villach vs 21,907 Kapfenberg+200%
Rent: €5.90/m² Villach vs €7.40/m² Kapfenberg−20%
Unemployment: 8.4% Villach vs 7.2% Kapfenberg+17%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 6,321 Villach vs 4,015 Kapfenbergno percentage
Foreign residents: 24.2% Villach vs 22.7% Kapfenberg+7%
Median gross pay, region: €3,268 Villach vs €3,296 Kapfenbergsame level

Full comparison More about Villach

Cities near Kapfenberg

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Alternative cities in Austria

Other cities in Austria to compare with Kapfenberg, nearest in population first.

All Austria cities

Hallein21,654 residents Schwechat21,243 residents Mödling20,662 residents Kufstein20,212 residents Amstetten24,008 residents Leoben24,561 residents

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Kapfenberg in rankings

#13 of 29 in Cities with cleanest air in Austria #14 of 28 in Most international cities in Austria #17 of 28 in Cities with lowest unemployment in Austria #25 of 29 in Largest cities in Austria

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Kapfenberg when the national insurance or residence conditions are met.

Healthcare access follows the country-wide insurance rules; local capacity facts remain city data and are not used as proof of eligibility.

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Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

School for children who move here. School is compulsory from age 6 to 15. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: Übergangsstufen (transition classes for pupils with insufficient German). How to enrol a child (bmbwf.gv.at).

A country-wide rule for Austria; Kapfenberg's school authority applies it locally.

Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.

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Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Kapfenberg?

The published population was 21,907 people in January 2025. Source: Archived AT round-01 G01 population evidence.

Is the air quality good in Kapfenberg?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 10 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: Annual AQ statistics (AirBase & e-Reporting merged).

How safe is Kapfenberg?

What is the unemployment rate in Kapfenberg?

The unemployment rate is 7.2 % (2024). Source: Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2024 — Key Results, municipalities.

What is the typical salary around Kapfenberg?

The median gross salary is 3,296 EUR/month. Source: Brutto- und Nettojahreseinkommen der unselbständig Erwerbstätigen nach Bundesländern 2024.

Is Kapfenberg a good place to live?

Kapfenberg may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.

Which cities are near Kapfenberg?

Bruck an der Mur, Kindberg, Leoben, Frohnleiten, Trofaiach are near Kapfenberg. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people born in Population total live in Kapfenberg?

The official country of birth distribution records 21,796 people (100.0%) in the source-defined population for 2026-01-01. This is a country of birth measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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  title = {Kapfenberg, Austria: population, rent, salary, jobs, safety},
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  year = {2026},
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