Living in Bad Laer

In Bad Laer, rents across existing tenancies average €5.65 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 3.6% (2024).

Bad Laer had a population of 8,895 at the end of 2024. At the end of 2024, the regional median gross salary stood at €3,700 per month. Annual PM2.5 in the air was 8 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2317 sources

Population8,895people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)3,700EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent5.65EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 3% belowOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate3.6%country median 5.1% — 29% belowOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime4,248incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise

PM2.5, annual mean8µg/m³31 Dec 2024Nearest stationOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Lower unemployment than 84% of German cities that publish it, less recorded crime than any other German city that publishes it and cleaner air than 64% of German cities that publish it.

Which Germany-wide rules apply when you move to Bad Laer?

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

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Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Bad Laer?

Average net cold rent is 5.65 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges.

Published average over existing tenancies; a specific flat can sit either side of it. Asking-rent series, where present, are separate rows in the table.

Average net rent (nettokalt): 5.65 EUR/m²/month · Destatis³

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Mobile plan, 10 GB€50

Internet, 60 Mbps€49

Net rent across major citiesBad Laer highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Munich€15.38

Hamburg€9.94

Stuttgart€9.72

Augsburg€9.10

Leipzig€6.27

Dortmund€6.00

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Mannheim€9.09

Berlin€7.71

Dresden€7.20

Brunswick€6.79

Bielefeld€6.72

Duisburg€6.66

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	48.95 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	MagentaZuhause L 100 Mbps⁵Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	49.95 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Telekom MagentaMobil M¹²Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	5.65 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Bad Laer a good place to live?

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Remote worker63%strong on work, weak on safety · range 53–73%

Skilled employee67%strong on work, weak on education · range 58–76%

Student60%strong on cost, weak on education · range 49–71%

Family63%strong on family, weak on education · range 52–74%

Retirement56%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 43–69%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 339 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 5.65 EUR/m² per month, before heating and operating charges.

Heating, water and operating charges come on top, and a specific flat can sit either side of an average.

Source period: May 2022

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Bad Laer?

The unemployment rate is 3.6 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Bad Laer is 3.6%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Bad Laer 3.6%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	3,700 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	3.6 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Bad Laer?

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

Left over each month€2,002of €2,440 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.	€2,440
Rent, 60 m²€5.65/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €339
Internet€49 · official · MagentaZuhause L 100 Mbps · 2026-09-30	− €49
Mobile plan€50 · official · Telekom MagentaMobil M · 2026-09-30	− €50
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	€2,002

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Public employment service

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

Country-level information

Bundesagentur für Arbeit — Public employment service

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Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesBad Laer highlighted among comparable cities

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Bremen15,424

Frankfurt14,600

Berlin13,900

Hanover13,192

Cologne12,343

Dortmund12,283

Dusseldorf12,172

Leipzig11,129

Essen9,619

Dresden8,853

Stuttgart8,552

Munich6,214

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	4,248 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁸Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Bad Laer's nearest airport was FMO, 27 km away and offered 11 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	11 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁶Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	27 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	FMO	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official

Language courses and integration

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

Country-level information

BAMF Integrationskurse — Integration course

Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF)

For eligible migrants.

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BAMF job-related German courses — Job-related language course

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For migrants needing job-related German.

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Climate and air quality

Bad Laer's monthly mean temperatures were 2.3°C in January and 18.5°C in July. Monthly precipitation was 83.3 mm in January and 85.3 mm in July. Average monthly sunshine totalled 51.1 hours in January and 211 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Bad Laer?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 8 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency⁴

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

Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C

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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

JFMAMJJASOND

Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

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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

PM2.58WHO 5 · EU 25

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

PM2.5 across cities in GermanyAnnual PM2.5 in Bad Laer is 8.0 µg/m³. Of 477 cities with data, 164 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Bad Laer 8.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	8 µg/m³	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average daytime high by month	Jan 4.5 · Feb 5.6 · Mar 9.4 · Apr 14.4 · May 18.3 · Jun 21.2 · Jul 23.7 · Aug 23.3 · Sep 18.8 · Oct 13.8 · Nov 8.3 · Dec 4.8 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹³Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -0.3 · Feb 0 · Mar 2.2 · Apr 4.8 · May 8.3 · Jun 11.1 · Jul 13.6 · Aug 13.3 · Sep 10.2 · Oct 6.7 · Nov 3.4 · Dec 0.4 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 2.3 · Feb 2.8 · Mar 5.7 · Apr 9.6 · May 13.4 · Jun 16.2 · Jul 18.5 · Aug 18.1 · Sep 14.2 · Oct 9.9 · Nov 6 · Dec 2.7 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 83.3 · Feb 62.7 · Mar 66.6 · Apr 46.7 · May 62.8 · Jun 64.7 · Jul 85.3 · Aug 88.7 · Sep 73.2 · Oct 70.2 · Nov 78.2 · Dec 82.7 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 51.1 · Feb 65 · Mar 111.6 · Apr 169.6 · May 199.2 · Jun 195.7 · Jul 211 · Aug 190.4 · Sep 137.2 · Oct 104.1 · Nov 47.1 · Dec 42.4 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Werl ±0.6 °C. Elsewhere: Gentofte (Denmark) ±0.8 °C, Lyngby-Taarbæk (Denmark) ±0.8 °C, Rudersdal (Denmark) ±0.8 °C, Reims (France) ±1.2 °C, Saanich (Canada) ±1.5 °C. Twenty closest, compared month by month

Monthly highs and lows against the 1991–2020 station normals of the nearest station; ± is the average monthly difference.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Bad Laer?

The published population was 8,895 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	8,895 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹Official

International community in Bad Laer

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

Country of birth

Persons · 2022-05-15

Published group	People	Share
Total	8,945	100.0%
Germany	7,542	84.3%
Kazakhstan	245	2.7%
Russian Federation	226	2.5%
Poland	215	2.4%
Ukraine	100	1.1%
Turkey	72	0.8%
Romania	68	0.8%
Syrian Arab Republic	48	0.5%
Moldova, Republic of	30	0.3%
Not stated	27	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Lithuania	26	0.3%
Spain	23	0.3%
Bulgaria	21	0.2%
Netherlands	18	0.2%
Viet Nam	17	0.2%
Kyrgyzstan	17	0.2%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	16	0.2%
Kosovo	16	0.2%
Uzbekistan	15	0.2%
Croatia	11	0.1%
Czech Republic	11	0.1%
Serbia	11	0.1%
Italy	10	0.1%
Greece	9	0.1%
Indonesia	9	0.1%
Somalia	7	0.1%
Afghanistan	7	0.1%
Latvia	6	0.1%
Switzerland	6	0.1%
Georgia	6	0.1%
Portugal	5	0.1%
Slovakia	5	0.1%
Zimbabwe	5	0.1%
Egypt	5	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	5	0.1%
Philippines	5	0.1%
Thailand	5	0.1%
Slovenia	4	0.0%
Austria	4	0.0%
United Kingdom	4	0.0%
Gambia	4	0.0%
Dominican Republic	4	0.0%
United States	4	0.0%
France	3	0.0%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	3	0.0%
Hungary	3	0.0%
Angola	3	0.0%
Nigeria	3	0.0%
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	3	0.0%
South Africa	3	0.0%
Namibia	3	0.0%
Ecuador	3	0.0%
Panama	3	0.0%
Sri Lanka	3	0.0%
India	3	0.0%
Israel	3	0.0%
Lebanon	3	0.0%
China	3	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹⁰

Citizenship

Persons · 2022-05-15

Published group	People	Share
Total	8,945	100.0%
Germany	8,181	91.5%
Poland	124	1.4%
Romania	91	1.0%
Turkey	75	0.8%
Ukraine	62	0.7%
Syrian Arab Republic	54	0.6%
Lithuania	32	0.4%
Croatia	29	0.3%
Spain	29	0.3%
Bulgaria	28	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Netherlands	21	0.2%
Russian Federation	17	0.2%
Greece	16	0.2%
Kosovo	14	0.2%
Viet Nam	14	0.2%
Italy	13	0.1%
Serbia	13	0.1%
Indonesia	11	0.1%
Kazakhstan	9	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	8	0.1%
United Kingdom	8	0.1%
Somalia	6	0.1%
Portugal	5	0.1%
Slovakia	5	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	5	0.1%
Latvia	4	0.0%
Ghana	4	0.0%
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	4	0.0%
China	4	0.0%
France	3	0.0%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	3	0.0%
Austria	3	0.0%
Hungary	3	0.0%
Angola	3	0.0%
Zimbabwe	3	0.0%
Brazil	3	0.0%
Dominican Republic	3	0.0%
Panama	3	0.0%
India	3	0.0%
Kyrgyzstan	3	0.0%
Lebanon	3	0.0%
Philippines	3	0.0%
Thailand	3	0.0%
Uzbekistan	3	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁹

Alternatives for people set on Bad Laer

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.

Böblingen as a Bad Laer alternative in the same country

Better on 2 of 2 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Median gross pay, region: €4,900 Böblingen vs €3,700 Bad Laer+32%
Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €5.65/m² Bad Laerno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 4,248 Bad Laer−11%

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Alternative cities in Germany

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Yes — migrants receive medical care in Bad Laer through valid health insurance.

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, and public school is free. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: Länder Sprachförderung (e.g. Sprachlernklassen BW/Berlin; vorklassen); Starting Opportunities Programme. How to enrol a child (kmk.org).

A country-wide rule for Germany; Bad Laer'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 Bad Laer?

The published population was 8,895 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Bad Laer?

Average net cold rent is 5.65 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 396 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Bad Laer?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 8 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency.

What is the unemployment rate in Bad Laer?

The unemployment rate is 3.6 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Bad Laer?

The median gross salary is 3,700 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Bad Laer a good place to live?

Bad Laer 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.

How many people born in Germany live in Bad Laer?

The official country of birth distribution records 7,542 people (84.3%) in the source-defined population for 2022-05-15. This is a country of birth measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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  title = {Bad Laer, Germany: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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Sources

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Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) statistik.arbeitsagentur.de · checked 2026-08-06
Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik statistik.arbeitsagentur.de · checked 2026-08-20
Destatis destatis.de · checked 2026-08-10
European Environment Agency air.discomap.eea.europa.eu · checked 2026-08-05
MagentaZuhause L 100 Mbps telekom.de · checked 2026-09-15
OpenFlights raw.githubusercontent.com · checked 2026-08-03
OurAirports davidmegginson.github.io · checked 2026-08-03
Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise bka.de · checked 2026-09-23
Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Länder, Germany citizenship distribution ergebnisse.zensus2022.de · checked 2026-08-28
Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Länder, Germany country of birth distribution ergebnisse.zensus2022.de · checked 2026-08-28

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Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) destatis.de · checked 2026-08-05
Telekom MagentaMobil M telekom.de · checked 2026-09-15
World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI nodc.noaa.gov · checked 2026-08-05
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