Living in Eslohe

In Eslohe, rents across existing tenancies average €4.87 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 4.8% (2024).

Eslohe's population was 8,717 at the end of 2024. Regional median gross salary figures for Eslohe showed €3,850 per month at the end of 2024. Eslohe recorded annual PM2.5 of 8 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2317 sources

Population8,717people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)3,850EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent4.87EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 16% belowOfficial source · Destatis — Zensus 2022 Regionaltabelle Wohnungen (QMMIETE: durchschnittliche Nettokaltmiete je m²)

Unemployment rate4.8%country median 5.1% — 6% belowOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime4,707incidents 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

Cheaper rent than 83% of German cities that publish it, less recorded crime than 98% of German cities that publish it and cleaner air than 64% of German cities that publish it.

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

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 Eslohe?

Average net cold rent is 4.87 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): 4.87 EUR/m²/month · Destatis — Zensus 2022 Regionaltabelle Wohnungen (QMMIETE: durchschnittliche Nettokaltmiete je m²)³

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Mobile plan, 10 GB€50

Internet, 60 Mbps€49

Net rent across major citiesEslohe highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Munich€15.38

Hamburg€9.94

Stuttgart€9.72

Augsburg€9.10

Dortmund€6.00

Eslohe€4.87

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Mannheim€9.09

Berlin€7.71

Dresden€7.20

Bielefeld€6.72

Duisburg€6.66

Leipzig€6.27

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)	4.87 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis — Zensus 2022 Regionaltabelle Wohnungen (QMMIETE: durchschnittliche Nettokaltmiete je m²)³Official

Is Eslohe a good place to live?

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Remote worker62%strong on work, weak on safety · range 52–72%

Skilled employee63%strong on work, weak on education · range 54–72%

Student63%strong on cost, weak on education · range 52–74%

Family60%strong on family, weak on education · range 49–71%

Retirement60%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 47–73%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 292 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 4.87 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 Eslohe?

The unemployment rate is 4.8 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Eslohe is 4.8%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Eslohe 4.8%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	3,850 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	4.8 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Eslohe?

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

Left over each month€2,130of €2,521 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.	€2,521
Rent, 60 m²€4.87/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €292
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	€2,130

Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Eslohe Salary needed to live in Eslohe

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Eslohe. 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 citiesEslohe 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	4,707 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁸Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Eslohe's nearest airport was DTM, 49 km away and offered 28 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	28 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁶Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	49 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	DTM	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official

Language courses and integration

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

Country-level information

BAMF Integrationskurse — Integration course

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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

Monthly mean temperature moved from −1.9°C in January to 14.3°C in July. Eslohe's monthly precipitation totalled 136.9 mm in January and 112.6 mm in July. Average monthly sunshine totalled 47.1 hours in January and 188 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Eslohe?

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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1°-4°

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9°2°

13°6°

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18°11°

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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

137

102

103

113

106

110

113

123

141

JFMAMJJASOND

Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

113

160

181

180

188

178

130

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hours

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 Eslohe 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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3–44–55–66–77–88–99–1010–1111–1212–1313–14

Eslohe 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 0.1 · Feb 0.7 · Mar 4.2 · Apr 9.3 · May 13.4 · Jun 16.4 · Jul 18.4 · Aug 18.3 · Sep 13.9 · Oct 9 · Nov 4 · Dec 1.1 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹³Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -3.8 · Feb -3.6 · Mar -1.3 · Apr 2.1 · May 5.7 · Jun 8.6 · Jul 10.9 · Aug 10.8 · Sep 7.8 · Oct 4.1 · Nov 0.2 · Dec -2.7 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan -1.9 · Feb -1.5 · Mar 1.2 · Apr 5.4 · May 9.3 · Jun 12.2 · Jul 14.3 · Aug 14.1 · Sep 10.5 · Oct 6.2 · Nov 2 · Dec -0.8 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 136.9 · Feb 102.3 · Mar 103.1 · Apr 75 · May 86.9 · Jun 95.7 · Jul 112.6 · Aug 105.9 · Sep 110.2 · Oct 113 · Nov 122.9 · Dec 141.3 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 47.1 · Feb 67.2 · Mar 113.1 · Apr 160.3 · May 181 · Jun 180.3 · Jul 188 · Aug 178 · Sep 129.8 · Oct 89.3 · Nov 44 · Dec 38.1 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Ilmenau ±0.4 °C. Elsewhere: Jönköping (Sweden) ±1.3 °C, Gentofte (Denmark) ±3.1 °C, Lyngby-Taarbæk (Denmark) ±3.1 °C, Rudersdal (Denmark) ±3.1 °C, Bærum (Norway) ±1.2 °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 Eslohe?

The published population was 8,717 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	8,717 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹Official

International community in Eslohe

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	8,782	100.0%
Germany	7,876	89.7%
Poland	143	1.6%
Syrian Arab Republic	107	1.2%
Russian Federation	86	1.0%
Turkey	70	0.8%
Ukraine	49	0.6%
Romania	44	0.5%
Kazakhstan	43	0.5%
Not stated	33	0.4%
Croatia	32	0.4%

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Published group	People	Share
Kosovo	25	0.3%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	20	0.2%
Serbia	20	0.2%
Afghanistan	19	0.2%
Italy	18	0.2%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	17	0.2%
Netherlands	15	0.2%
Sri Lanka	15	0.2%
Bulgaria	10	0.1%
Philippines	10	0.1%
Thailand	10	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	9	0.1%
Portugal	8	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	6	0.1%
Iraq	6	0.1%
Albania	5	0.1%
Belgium	5	0.1%
France	5	0.1%
Austria	5	0.1%
Armenia	5	0.1%
Azerbaijan	5	0.1%
United Kingdom	4	0.0%
Nigeria	4	0.0%
United States	4	0.0%
Uzbekistan	4	0.0%
Lithuania	3	0.0%
Norway	3	0.0%
Hungary	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Eritrea	3	0.0%
Guinea	3	0.0%
Brazil	3	0.0%
Indonesia	3	0.0%
Japan	3	0.0%
Jordan	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	8,782	100.0%
Germany	8,124	92.5%
Syrian Arab Republic	121	1.4%
Turkey	98	1.1%
Croatia	61	0.7%
Romania	51	0.6%
Poland	50	0.6%
Ukraine	49	0.6%
Afghanistan	26	0.3%
Kosovo	18	0.2%
Italy	16	0.2%

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Published group	People	Share
Netherlands	15	0.2%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	14	0.2%
Bulgaria	11	0.1%
Serbia	10	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	9	0.1%
Greece	9	0.1%
Albania	8	0.1%
Nigeria	8	0.1%
Portugal	7	0.1%
Russian Federation	7	0.1%
Ghana	6	0.1%
Kazakhstan	6	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	6	0.1%
Lithuania	5	0.1%
Guinea	5	0.1%
Brazil	5	0.1%
Azerbaijan	5	0.1%
Sri Lanka	5	0.1%
Iraq	5	0.1%
Hungary	4	0.0%
United Kingdom	4	0.0%
Philippines	4	0.0%
France	3	0.0%
Montenegro	3	0.0%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	3	0.0%
Austria	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Eritrea	3	0.0%
United States	3	0.0%
Armenia	3	0.0%
Indonesia	3	0.0%
Japan	3	0.0%
Thailand	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 Eslohe

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Yes — migrants receive medical care in Eslohe 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; Eslohe'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 Eslohe?

The published population was 8,717 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Eslohe?

Average net cold rent is 4.87 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 341 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis — Zensus 2022 Regionaltabelle Wohnungen (QMMIETE: durchschnittliche Nettokaltmiete je m²).

Is the air quality good in Eslohe?

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 Eslohe?

The unemployment rate is 4.8 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Eslohe?

The median gross salary is 3,850 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Eslohe a good place to live?

Eslohe 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 Eslohe?

The official country of birth distribution records 7,876 people (89.7%) 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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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Eslohe, Germany: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {a1526d54f0024ea18adb83d678011b46},
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  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) statistik.arbeitsagentur.de · checked 2026-08-06
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Destatis — Zensus 2022 Regionaltabelle Wohnungen (QMMIETE: durchschnittliche Nettokaltmiete je m²) Destatis · destatis.de · checked 2026-09-18
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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