Living in Jade

In Jade, rents across existing tenancies average €5.50 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 6.4% (2024).

The population of Jade totalled 5,843 at the end of 2024. The regional median gross salary was €4,100 per month at the end of 2024. Annual PM2.5 levels for Jade stood at 10 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2325 sources

Population5,843people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)4,100EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent5.5EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 5% belowOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate6.4%country median 5.1% — 25% aboveOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime5,232incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise

PM2.5, annual mean10µg/m³31 Dec 2024Nearest stationOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Cheaper rent than 61% of German cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 77% 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 Jade?

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 Jade?

Average net cold rent is 5.5 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): 5.5 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 citiesJade 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)	5.5 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Jade a good place to live?

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Remote worker56%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 46–66%

Skilled employee58%strong on work, weak on education · range 49–67%

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

Family55%strong on family, weak on education · range 44–66%

Retirement59%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 46–72%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 330 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 5.5 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 Jade?

The unemployment rate is 6.4 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Jade is 6.4%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Jade 6.4%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	4,100 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	6.4 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Jade?

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

Left over each month€2,227of €2,655 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.	€2,655
Rent, 60 m²€5.50/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €330
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	€2,227

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

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Jade. 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

Bundesagentur für Arbeit

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Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Jade. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesJade 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	5,232 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁸Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Jade's nearest airport was BRE, 50 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	50 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 Jade. 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.

GermanIn Person

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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 Jade.

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Climate and air quality

Jade's monthly mean temperatures were 2.4°C in January and 18.1°C in July. Jade's monthly precipitation totalled 71.1 mm in January and 88.8 mm in July. Jade's average monthly sunshine was 45.3 hours in January and 209.1 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Jade?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 10 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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14°4°

18°8°

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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

117

173

213

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209

191

144

110

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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

PM2.510WHO 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 Jade is 10.0 µg/m³. Of 477 cities with data, 164 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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101

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

Jade 10.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	10 µg/m³	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average daytime high by month	Jan 4.7 · Feb 5.4 · Mar 9.3 · Apr 14.3 · May 18.1 · Jun 20.6 · Jul 23.2 · Aug 22.8 · Sep 18.9 · Oct 13.8 · Nov 8.5 · Dec 4.7 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹³Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -0.1 · Feb -0.3 · Mar 1.6 · Apr 4.4 · May 7.9 · Jun 10.8 · Jul 13.4 · Aug 13.2 · Sep 10.2 · Oct 6.2 · Nov 3.2 · Dec 0 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 2.4 · Feb 2.6 · Mar 5.3 · Apr 9.3 · May 13.1 · Jun 15.7 · Jul 18.1 · Aug 17.8 · Sep 14.2 · Oct 9.8 · Nov 5.8 · Dec 2.5 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 71.1 · Feb 56.1 · Mar 54.1 · Apr 43 · May 56.4 · Jun 69.3 · Jul 88.8 · Aug 85.4 · Sep 75.7 · Oct 63.7 · Nov 65.1 · Dec 84.3 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 45.3 · Feb 63 · Mar 117.1 · Apr 172.8 · May 213.2 · Jun 200.5 · Jul 209.1 · Aug 191.1 · Sep 143.8 · Oct 110 · Nov 48 · Dec 40.1 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Heide ±0.6 °C. Elsewhere: Gentofte (Denmark) ±0.8 °C, Lyngby-Taarbæk (Denmark) ±0.8 °C, Rudersdal (Denmark) ±0.8 °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 Jade?

The published population was 5,843 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	5,843 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹Official

International community in Jade

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	5,849	100.0%
Germany	5,527	94.5%
Poland	49	0.8%
Netherlands	32	0.5%
Ukraine	27	0.5%
Russian Federation	23	0.4%
Kazakhstan	18	0.3%
Pakistan	16	0.3%
Viet Nam	15	0.3%
Afghanistan	12	0.2%
Syrian Arab Republic	12	0.2%

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Published group	People	Share
Not stated	10	0.2%
Romania	8	0.1%
Switzerland	8	0.1%
Lebanon	7	0.1%
Serbia	6	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5	0.1%
Czech Republic	5	0.1%
Iraq	5	0.1%
Turkey	4	0.1%
Philippines	4	0.1%
Croatia	3	0.1%
Greece	3	0.1%
Italy	3	0.1%
Lithuania	3	0.1%
Sweden	3	0.1%
United Kingdom	3	0.1%
South Africa	3	0.1%
Colombia	3	0.1%
United States	3	0.1%
India	3	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	3	0.1%
Israel	3	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	3	0.1%
Tajikistan	3	0.1%
Thailand	3	0.1%
Uzbekistan	3	0.1%

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	5,849	100.0%
Germany	5,638	96.4%
Netherlands	47	0.8%
Ukraine	29	0.5%
Poland	20	0.3%
Afghanistan	14	0.2%
Iraq	12	0.2%
Syrian Arab Republic	12	0.2%
Romania	11	0.2%
Viet Nam	11	0.2%
Pakistan	10	0.2%

Show 11 more groups

Published group	People	Share
Bosnia and Herzegovina	7	0.1%
Switzerland	5	0.1%
Lebanon	5	0.1%
Hungary	4	0.1%
United States	4	0.1%
Uncertain	4	0.1%
Italy	3	0.1%
Russian Federation	3	0.1%
Turkey	3	0.1%
India	3	0.1%
Tajikistan	3	0.1%

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

Alternatives for people set on Jade

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 Jade alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 521 km, 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 €5.50/m² Jadeno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 5,232 Jade−28%
Median gross pay, region: €4,900 Böblingen vs €4,100 Jade+20%

Full comparison More about Böblingen

Cities near Jade

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Varel 9.0 km away

Rent: 5.88 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Brake (Unterweser) 16.2 km away

Rent: 5.04 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Elsfleth 19.5 km away

Rent: 5.25 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Wilhelmshaven 22.3 km away

Rent: 5.69 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Oldenburg 22.4 km away

Rent: 7.79 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Nordenham 22.9 km away

Rent: 5.32 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Westerstede 23.9 km away

Rent: 6.31 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Alternative cities in Germany

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

All Germany cities

Bad Blankenburg5,843 residents Sinnersdorf5,842 residents Berga-Wünschendorf5,840 residents Schäftlarn5,840 residents Speichersdorf5,840 residents Waldbrunn5,847 residents

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

The published population was 5,843 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Jade?

Average net cold rent is 5.5 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 385 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Jade?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 10 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 Jade?

The unemployment rate is 6.4 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Jade?

The median gross salary is 4,100 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Jade a good place to live?

Jade 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.

Which cities are near Jade?

Varel, Brake (Unterweser), Elsfleth, Wilhelmshaven, Oldenburg are near Jade. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people born in Germany live in Jade?

The official country of birth distribution records 5,527 people (94.5%) 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 = {Jade, Germany: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {b2093d8921c1f5dc48af0e0bad00c19a},
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}

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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
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