Living in Dörverden

In Dörverden, rents across existing tenancies average €5.21 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 4.1% (2024).

Dörverden's population was 8,735 at the end of 2024. At the end of 2024, the regional median gross salary stood at €3,950 per month.

Last checked 2026-09-2312 sources

Population8,735people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)3,950EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent5.21EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 10% belowOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate4.1%country median 5.1% — 20% belowOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime5,060incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise

Cheaper rent than 71% of German cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 71% of German cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 98% of German cities that publish it.

Which Germany-wide rules apply when you move to Dörverden?

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 Dörverden?

Average net cold rent is 5.21 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): 5.21 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 citiesDörverden 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 Mbps⁴Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	49.95 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Telekom MagentaMobil M¹²Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	5.21 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Dörverden a good place to live?

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

Skilled employee65%strong on work, weak on education · range 56–74%

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

Family62%strong on family, weak on education · range 51–73%

Retirement58%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 45–71%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 313 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 5.21 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 Dörverden?

The unemployment rate is 4.1 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Dörverden is 4.1%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Dörverden 4.1%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	3,950 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	4.1 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Dörverden?

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

Left over each month€2,164of €2,575 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.	€2,575
Rent, 60 m²€5.21/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €313
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	€2,164

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Dörverden. 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 citiesDörverden 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	5,060 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁸Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Dörverden's nearest airport was BRE, 37 km away and offered 43 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	43 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁶Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	37 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	BRE	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Dörverden. 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

Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF)

For migrants needing job-related German.

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Climate and air quality

Dörverden's monthly mean temperatures were 0.7°C in January and 18.3°C in July.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 12.9 · Feb 15.23 · Mar 20.69 · Apr 25.17 · May 30.16 · Jun 31.07 · Jul 34.09 · Aug 32.89 · Sep 29.33 · Oct 25.31 · Nov 19.88 · Dec 13.45 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁵Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -20.83 · Feb -17.67 · Mar -12.92 · Apr -4.8 · May -0.91 · Jun 3.88 · Jul 7.79 · Aug 6.19 · Sep 3.28 · Oct -4.32 · Nov -8.12 · Dec -17.29 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁵Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by month	Jan 0.72 · Feb 1.36 · Mar 4.2 · Apr 8.84 · May 12.91 · Jun 16.24 · Jul 18.25 · Aug 17.92 · Sep 14.34 · Oct 9.77 · Nov 5.28 · Dec 2 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁵Official · coordinate grid

Population and city profile

How many people live in Dörverden?

The published population was 8,735 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	8,735 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹Official

International community in Dörverden

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	8,737	100.0%
Germany	7,093	81.2%
Poland	246	2.8%
Russian Federation	234	2.7%
Kazakhstan	219	2.5%
Turkey	141	1.6%
Ukraine	111	1.3%
Iraq	91	1.0%
Romania	89	1.0%
Syrian Arab Republic	69	0.8%
Not stated	38	0.4%

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Published group	People	Share
Lithuania	23	0.3%
Serbia	21	0.2%
Afghanistan	21	0.2%
Albania	20	0.2%
Moldova, Republic of	19	0.2%
Georgia	19	0.2%
Croatia	18	0.2%
Greece	18	0.2%
United States	18	0.2%
United Kingdom	17	0.2%
Kosovo	14	0.2%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	13	0.1%
France	11	0.1%
Italy	11	0.1%
Liberia	11	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	10	0.1%
Thailand	9	0.1%
Czech Republic	8	0.1%
Lebanon	8	0.1%
Philippines	8	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	6	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	6	0.1%
Netherlands	6	0.1%
Austria	6	0.1%
Côte D'Ivoire	5	0.1%
Belgium	4	0.0%
Latvia	4	0.0%
Switzerland	4	0.0%
Colombia	4	0.0%
Cuba	4	0.0%
Tajikistan	4	0.0%
Bulgaria	3	0.0%
Estonia	3	0.0%
Slovenia	3	0.0%
Iceland	3	0.0%
Luxembourg	3	0.0%
Spain	3	0.0%
Hungary	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Eritrea	3	0.0%
Mali	3	0.0%
Mauritius	3	0.0%
Guinea	3	0.0%
South Africa	3	0.0%
Sudan	3	0.0%
Uganda	3	0.0%
Mexico	3	0.0%
Nicaragua	3	0.0%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	3	0.0%
Armenia	3	0.0%
Turkmenistan	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	8,737	100.0%
Germany	7,809	89.4%
Poland	117	1.3%
Turkey	115	1.3%
Romania	97	1.1%
Iraq	94	1.1%
Ukraine	86	1.0%
Syrian Arab Republic	69	0.8%
Serbia	30	0.3%
Russian Federation	26	0.3%
Afghanistan	23	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Albania	22	0.3%
Croatia	20	0.2%
Greece	19	0.2%
Georgia	18	0.2%
Kosovo	13	0.1%
Côte D'Ivoire	11	0.1%
Lithuania	10	0.1%
United States	10	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	9	0.1%
Italy	8	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	8	0.1%
Eritrea	7	0.1%
Thailand	7	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	6	0.1%
Netherlands	6	0.1%
Switzerland	6	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	6	0.1%
Kazakhstan	6	0.1%
France	5	0.1%
Iceland	5	0.1%
Uncertain	5	0.1%
Hungary	4	0.0%
United Kingdom	4	0.0%
Liberia	4	0.0%
Colombia	4	0.0%
Bulgaria	3	0.0%
Spain	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Mauritius	3	0.0%
Guinea	3	0.0%
Sudan	3	0.0%
Uganda	3	0.0%
Mexico	3	0.0%
Sri Lanka	3	0.0%
China	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 Dörverden

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 Dörverden 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.

Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €5.21/m² Dörverdenno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €4,900 Böblingen vs €3,950 Dörverden+24%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 5,060 Dörverden−25%

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Alternative cities in Germany

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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).

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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 Dörverden?

The published population was 8,735 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Dörverden?

Average net cold rent is 5.21 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 365 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

What is the unemployment rate in Dörverden?

The unemployment rate is 4.1 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Dörverden?

The median gross salary is 3,950 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Dörverden a good place to live?

Dörverden 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 Dörverden?

The official country of birth distribution records 7,093 people (81.2%) 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 = {Dörverden, Germany: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
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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
MagentaZuhause L 100 Mbps telekom.de · checked 2026-09-15
NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center power.larc.nasa.gov · checked 2026-08-05
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

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