Living in Harsefeld

In Harsefeld, rents across existing tenancies average €7.43 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 5.8% (2024).

The population of Harsefeld totalled 14,782 at the end of 2024. The regional median gross salary was €4,200 per month at the end of 2024. The annual PM2.5 concentration measured 8 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2318 sources

Population14,782people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)4,200EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent7.43EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 28% aboveOfficial source · Destatis

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

Recorded crime4,879incidents 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 (EEA)

Pricier rent than 85% of German cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 66% 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 Harsefeld?

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 Harsefeld?

Average net cold rent is 7.43 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): 7.43 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 citiesHarsefeld 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 Mbps⁶Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	49.95 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Telekom MagentaMobil M¹³Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	7.43 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Harsefeld a good place to live?

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Remote worker52%strong on work, weak on safety · range 42–62%

Skilled employee56%strong on work, weak on education · range 47–65%

Student55%strong on cost, weak on education · range 44–66%

Family52%strong on family, weak on education · range 41–63%

Retirement54%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 41–67%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 446 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.43 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 Harsefeld?

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

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

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Harsefeld 5.8%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	4,200 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 Harsefeld?

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 €2,709 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.	€2,709
Rent, 60 m²€7.43/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €446
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

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

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Harsefeld. 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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Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Harsefeld. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesHarsefeld 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	4,879 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁹Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Harsefeld's nearest airport was HAM, 38 km away and offered 87 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	87 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁷Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	38 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	HAM	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Harsefeld. 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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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Harsefeld.

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Climate and air quality

Monthly mean temperatures were 2.2°C in January and 17.6°C in July. Harsefeld's monthly precipitation totalled 76.9 mm in January and 92.9 mm in July. Harsefeld's average monthly sunshine was 35.6 hours in January and 190.4 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Harsefeld?

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 (EEA)⁴

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

116

187

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152

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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 Harsefeld 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

Harsefeld 8.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	8 µg/m³	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency (EEA)⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average daytime high by month	Jan 4.6 · Feb 5 · Mar 9 · Apr 14.6 · May 18.5 · Jun 21.2 · Jul 22.7 · Aug 22.7 · Sep 19.6 · Oct 14 · Nov 8.6 · Dec 5.4 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -0.1 · Feb -0.8 · Mar 1.1 · Apr 3.5 · May 7 · Jun 10.4 · Jul 12.3 · Aug 11.9 · Sep 9.5 · Oct 6.7 · Nov 3.3 · Dec 0.8 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 2.2 · Feb 2.4 · Mar 4.8 · Apr 9.1 · May 12.9 · Jun 15.9 · Jul 17.6 · Aug 17.2 · Sep 14.3 · Oct 10.4 · Nov 6.1 · Dec 3.3 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 76.9 · Feb 51.7 · Mar 54.8 · Apr 37.2 · May 49.7 · Jun 69.8 · Jul 92.9 · Aug 75.3 · Sep 55.2 · Oct 68.6 · Nov 63.3 · Dec 74.7 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 35.6 · Feb 66 · Mar 115.6 · Apr 186.5 · May 215.2 · Jun 199.4 · Jul 190.4 · Aug 185.9 · Sep 152.4 · Oct 91.4 · Nov 47.1 · Dec 32.1 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁸Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Eutin ±0.5 °C. Elsewhere: Gentofte (Denmark) ±0.9 °C, Lyngby-Taarbæk (Denmark) ±0.9 °C, Rudersdal (Denmark) ±0.9 °C, Reims (France) ±1.3 °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 Harsefeld?

The published population was 14,782 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	14,782 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²Official

International community in Harsefeld

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	14,452	100.0%
Germany	12,473	86.3%
Poland	382	2.6%
Kazakhstan	297	2.1%
Russian Federation	288	2.0%
Syrian Arab Republic	121	0.8%
Ukraine	109	0.8%
Turkey	58	0.4%
Moldova, Republic of	48	0.3%
Romania	46	0.3%
Lithuania	38	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Netherlands	29	0.2%
Greece	23	0.2%
Iraq	21	0.1%
Lebanon	21	0.1%
Sudan	20	0.1%
Spain	18	0.1%
Brazil	18	0.1%
Jordan	17	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	17	0.1%
Uzbekistan	17	0.1%
France	16	0.1%
United Kingdom	15	0.1%
Afghanistan	15	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	14	0.1%
China	14	0.1%
Czech Republic	13	0.1%
Hungary	13	0.1%
Latvia	12	0.1%
Montenegro	11	0.1%
Austria	11	0.1%
Switzerland	11	0.1%
Belarus	11	0.1%
Colombia	11	0.1%
United States	11	0.1%
Not stated	11	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	9	0.1%
Serbia	9	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	0.1%
Finland	7	0.0%
Italy	7	0.0%
Ecuador	7	0.0%
Thailand	7	0.0%
Bulgaria	6	0.0%
Côte D'Ivoire	6	0.0%
Canada	6	0.0%
Philippines	6	0.0%
Tajikistan	6	0.0%
Albania	5	0.0%
Norway	5	0.0%
Slovakia	5	0.0%
India	5	0.0%
Estonia	4	0.0%
Slovenia	4	0.0%
Sweden	4	0.0%
South Africa	4	0.0%
Peru	4	0.0%
Armenia	4	0.0%
Israel	4	0.0%
Denmark	3	0.0%
Croatia	3	0.0%
Kosovo	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Nigeria	3	0.0%
Zimbabwe	3	0.0%
Gambia	3	0.0%
Liberia	3	0.0%
Madagascar	3	0.0%
Mali	3	0.0%
Morocco	3	0.0%
Guinea	3	0.0%
Somalia	3	0.0%
Tunisia	3	0.0%
Argentina	3	0.0%
Cuba	3	0.0%
Georgia	3	0.0%
Viet Nam	3	0.0%
Indonesia	3	0.0%
Palestinian territories	3	0.0%
Pakistan	3	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹¹

Citizenship

Persons · 2022-05-15

Published group	People	Share
Total	14,452	100.0%
Germany	13,360	92.4%
Poland	236	1.6%
Syrian Arab Republic	128	0.9%
Ukraine	88	0.6%
Romania	66	0.5%
Turkey	47	0.3%
Greece	42	0.3%
Russian Federation	37	0.3%
Lithuania	36	0.2%
Netherlands	26	0.2%

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Published group	People	Share
Sudan	22	0.2%
Afghanistan	20	0.1%
Iraq	18	0.1%
Montenegro	17	0.1%
Latvia	16	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	14	0.1%
Hungary	14	0.1%
Lebanon	14	0.1%
Italy	13	0.1%
Spain	12	0.1%
Colombia	12	0.1%
Kazakhstan	11	0.1%
France	8	0.1%
Austria	8	0.1%
Switzerland	8	0.1%
United Kingdom	8	0.1%
Côte D'Ivoire	8	0.1%
Brazil	7	0.0%
Bulgaria	6	0.0%
Palestinian territories	6	0.0%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5	0.0%
Finland	5	0.0%
Norway	5	0.0%
Canada	5	0.0%
United States	5	0.0%
Azerbaijan	5	0.0%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	5	0.0%
China	5	0.0%
Albania	4	0.0%
Denmark	4	0.0%
Estonia	4	0.0%
Slovenia	4	0.0%
Slovakia	4	0.0%
Czech Republic	4	0.0%
Belarus	4	0.0%
Georgia	4	0.0%
Jordan	4	0.0%
Thailand	4	0.0%
Stateless	4	0.0%
Uncertain	4	0.0%
Croatia	3	0.0%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	3	0.0%
Sweden	3	0.0%
Serbia	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Nigeria	3	0.0%
Gambia	3	0.0%
Mali	3	0.0%
Morocco	3	0.0%
Somalia	3	0.0%
Tunisia	3	0.0%
Ecuador	3	0.0%
Armenia	3	0.0%
Cambodia	3	0.0%

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

Alternatives for people set on Harsefeld

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 Harsefeld alternative in the same country

Better on 2 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €7.43/m² Harsefeldno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 4,879 Harsefeld−22%
Median gross pay, region: €4,900 Böblingen vs €4,200 Harsefeld+17%
Annual PM2.5: 10.0 µg/m³ Böblingen vs 8.0 µg/m³ Harsefeld+25%

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Alternative cities in Germany

Other cities in Germany to compare with Harsefeld, nearest in population first.

All Germany cities

Neustadt a.d.Donau14,778 residents Landau an der Isar14,776 residents Jever14,774 residents Landsberg14,772 residents Münsingen14,772 residents Landau a.d.Isar14,801 residents

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Yes — migrants receive medical care in Harsefeld 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; Harsefeld's school authority applies it locally.

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

Is Harsefeld part of Hamburg?

Harsefeld is in the published commuting zone of Hamburg; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub. Hamburg city profile

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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 Harsefeld?

The published population was 14,782 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Harsefeld?

Average net cold rent is 7.43 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 520 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Harsefeld?

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 (EEA).

What is the unemployment rate in Harsefeld?

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

What is the typical salary around Harsefeld?

The median gross salary is 4,200 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Harsefeld a good place to live?

Harsefeld 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.

Is Harsefeld part of Hamburg?

Harsefeld is in the published commuting zone of Hamburg; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub.

How many people born in Germany live in Harsefeld?

The official country of birth distribution records 12,473 people (86.3%) 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 = {Harsefeld, Germany: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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}

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GISCO Urban Audit 2021 — Functional Urban Areas (URAU_RG_100K_2021_4326_FUA) GISCO Urban Audit 2021 · gisco-services.ec.europa.eu · checked 2026-09-19
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OurAirports davidmegginson.github.io · checked 2026-08-03
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Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Länder, Germany citizenship distribution ergebnisse.zensus2022.de · checked 2026-08-28

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