Living in Friedeburg

In Friedeburg, rents across existing tenancies average €5.24 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 5.8% (2024).

Residents of Friedeburg numbered 10,280 at the end of 2024. Regional median gross salary figures for Friedeburg showed €3,550 per month at the end of 2024. Annual PM2.5 levels for Friedeburg stood at 8 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2312 sources

Population10,280people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)3,550EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent5.24EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 10% belowOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate5.8%country median 5.1% — 14% aboveOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime3,890incidents 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 70% of German cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 66% of German cities that publish it and less recorded crime than any other German city that publishes it.

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

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Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Friedeburg?

Average net cold rent is 5.24 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): 5.24 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 citiesFriedeburg 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)	5.24 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Friedeburg a good place to live?

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Remote worker58%strong on work, weak on safety · range 48–68%

Skilled employee60%strong on work, weak on education · range 51–69%

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

Family57%strong on family, weak on education · range 46–68%

Retirement59%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 46–72%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 314 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 5.24 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 Friedeburg?

The unemployment rate is 5.8 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Friedeburg is 5.8%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Friedeburg 5.8%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	3,550 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	5.8 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Friedeburg?

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

Left over each month€1,944of €2,358 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.	€2,358
Rent, 60 m²€5.24/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €314
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	€1,944

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Friedeburg. 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 citiesFriedeburg 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	3,890 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁸Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Friedeburg's nearest major airport was 37 km away.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Distance to the nearest major airport	37 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	AGE	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official

Language courses and integration

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

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

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Climate and air quality

Monthly mean temperature moved from 1.9°C in January to 17.9°C in July.

Is the air quality good in Friedeburg?

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.

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 Friedeburg 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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Friedeburg 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
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 11.92 · Feb 14.19 · Mar 18.8 · Apr 23.41 · May 26.51 · Jun 30.31 · Jul 32.95 · Aug 33.18 · Sep 28.07 · Oct 24.54 · Nov 18.4 · Dec 12.92 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁶Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -13.64 · Feb -14.51 · Mar -10.67 · Apr -2.69 · May 1.01 · Jun 5.93 · Jul 9.57 · Aug 8.05 · Sep 4.82 · Oct -1.08 · Nov -4.85 · Dec -14.32 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁶Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by month	Jan 1.86 · Feb 2.11 · Mar 4.34 · Apr 8.42 · May 12.25 · Jun 15.63 · Jul 17.93 · Aug 17.96 · Sep 14.86 · Oct 10.56 · Nov 6.33 · Dec 3.19 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁶Official · coordinate grid

Population and city profile

How many people live in Friedeburg?

The published population was 10,280 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	10,280 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹Official

International community in Friedeburg

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	10,282	100.0%
Germany	9,662	94.0%
Poland	127	1.2%
Ukraine	66	0.6%
Syrian Arab Republic	53	0.5%
Russian Federation	48	0.5%
Romania	33	0.3%
Kazakhstan	32	0.3%
Netherlands	29	0.3%
Afghanistan	28	0.3%
Iraq	20	0.2%

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Published group	People	Share
Not stated	13	0.1%
Czech Republic	11	0.1%
United Kingdom	10	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	8	0.1%
Italy	7	0.1%
Serbia	7	0.1%
United States	7	0.1%
Greece	6	0.1%
Turkey	6	0.1%
Georgia	6	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5	0.0%
Spain	5	0.0%
Sudan	5	0.0%
Thailand	5	0.0%
Bulgaria	4	0.0%
France	4	0.0%
Lithuania	4	0.0%
Kosovo	4	0.0%
Austria	4	0.0%
Hungary	4	0.0%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	4	0.0%
Philippines	4	0.0%
Denmark	3	0.0%
Croatia	3	0.0%
Ireland	3	0.0%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	3	0.0%
Switzerland	3	0.0%
Côte D'Ivoire	3	0.0%
Nigeria	3	0.0%
Morocco	3	0.0%
Uganda	3	0.0%
Egypt	3	0.0%
Argentina	3	0.0%
Guatemala	3	0.0%
Colombia	3	0.0%
Mexico	3	0.0%
Peru	3	0.0%
Sri Lanka	3	0.0%
Viet Nam	3	0.0%
Kuwait	3	0.0%
Kyrgyzstan	3	0.0%
Lebanon	3	0.0%
Uzbekistan	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	10,282	100.0%
Germany	9,843	95.7%
Poland	73	0.7%
Ukraine	65	0.6%
Syrian Arab Republic	59	0.6%
Romania	30	0.3%
Afghanistan	28	0.3%
Netherlands	27	0.3%
Iraq	21	0.2%
Serbia	18	0.2%
Russian Federation	10	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Sudan	10	0.1%
Georgia	6	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5	0.0%
Spain	5	0.0%
Uncertain	5	0.0%
Greece	4	0.0%
Nigeria	4	0.0%
Kazakhstan	4	0.0%
Philippines	4	0.0%
Thailand	4	0.0%
France	3	0.0%
Ireland	3	0.0%
Italy	3	0.0%
Switzerland	3	0.0%
Czech Republic	3	0.0%
United Kingdom	3	0.0%
Colombia	3	0.0%
United States	3	0.0%
Viet Nam	3	0.0%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	3	0.0%
Japan	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 Friedeburg

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 Friedeburg alternative in the same country

Better on 1 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 €3,550 Friedeburg+38%
Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €5.24/m² Friedeburgno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 3,890 Friedeburgsame level

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Alternative cities in Germany

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

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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 Friedeburg?

The published population was 10,280 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Friedeburg?

Average net cold rent is 5.24 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 367 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Friedeburg?

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 Friedeburg?

The unemployment rate is 5.8 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Friedeburg?

The median gross salary is 3,550 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Friedeburg a good place to live?

Friedeburg 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 Friedeburg?

The official country of birth distribution records 9,662 people (94.0%) 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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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
NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center power.larc.nasa.gov · checked 2026-08-05
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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