Living in Karstädt

In Karstädt, rents across existing tenancies average €4.33 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 8.2% (2024).

Karstädt numbered 5,803 residents at the end of 2024. At the end of 2024, the regional median gross salary stood at €3,200 per month. The annual PM2.5 concentration measured 8 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2325 sources

Population5,803people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)3,200EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent4.33EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 25% belowOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate8.2%country median 5.1% — 61% aboveOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime6,478incidents 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 97% of German cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 92% of German cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 95% of German cities that publish it.

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

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 Karstädt?

Average net cold rent is 4.33 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): 4.33 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 citiesKarstädt 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)	4.33 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Karstädt a good place to live?

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Remote worker57%strong on work, weak on safety · range 47–67%

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

Student65%strong on cost, weak on education · range 54–76%

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

Retirement62%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 49–75%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 260 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 4.33 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 Karstädt?

The unemployment rate is 8.2 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Karstädt is 8.2%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Karstädt 8.2%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	3,200 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	8.2 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Karstädt?

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

Left over each month€1,805of €2,164 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.	€2,164
Rent, 60 m²€4.33/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €260
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	€1,805

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Karstädt. 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 citiesKarstädt 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	6,478 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁸Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Karstädt's nearest airport was RLG, 91 km away and offered 5 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	5 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁶Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	91 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	RLG	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official

Language courses and integration

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

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For migrants needing job-related German.

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Climate and air quality

Monthly mean temperature moved from 0.9°C in January to 18.4°C in July. Karstädt's monthly precipitation totalled 59.5 mm in January and 72 mm in July. Average monthly sunshine totalled 43.2 hours in January and 216.9 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Karstädt?

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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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

JFMAMJJASOND

Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

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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 Karstädt 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

Karstädt 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 3 · Feb 4.5 · Mar 8.2 · Apr 14.3 · May 18.8 · Jun 21.8 · Jul 23.9 · Aug 23.8 · Sep 19.1 · Oct 13.4 · Nov 7.5 · Dec 3.9 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹³Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -1.6 · Feb -1.2 · Mar 0.4 · Apr 3.5 · May 7.2 · Jun 10.6 · Jul 12.9 · Aug 12.9 · Sep 9.6 · Oct 6 · Nov 2.5 · Dec -0.3 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 0.9 · Feb 1.6 · Mar 4.2 · Apr 8.9 · May 13.2 · Jun 16.3 · Jul 18.4 · Aug 18.1 · Sep 14 · Oct 9.4 · Nov 4.9 · Dec 2 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 59.5 · Feb 46.7 · Mar 47.6 · Apr 35.8 · May 50.9 · Jun 60.3 · Jul 72 · Aug 61.3 · Sep 51 · Oct 55.3 · Nov 47.8 · Dec 56.6 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 43.2 · Feb 71.5 · Mar 122.1 · Apr 189.1 · May 231.2 · Jun 228.1 · Jul 216.9 · Aug 204.3 · Sep 167 · Oct 103.2 · Nov 50.7 · Dec 35.8 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Bad Arolsen ±0.5 °C. Elsewhere: Gentofte (Denmark) ±0.9 °C, Lyngby-Taarbæk (Denmark) ±0.9 °C, Rudersdal (Denmark) ±0.9 °C, Gorzów Wielkopolski (Poland) ±0.7 °C, Reims (France) ±1.6 °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 Karstädt?

The published population was 5,803 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	5,803 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹Official

International community in Karstädt

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	5,962	100.0%
Germany	5,481	91.9%
Poland	130	2.2%
Ukraine	104	1.7%
Romania	60	1.0%
Syrian Arab Republic	40	0.7%
Not stated	26	0.4%
Afghanistan	24	0.4%
Russian Federation	16	0.3%
Czech Republic	12	0.2%
Netherlands	6	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Iran, Islamic Republic of	6	0.1%
Lebanon	5	0.1%
Bulgaria	4	0.1%
France	4	0.1%
India	4	0.1%
Latvia	3	0.1%
Turkey	3	0.1%
Hungary	3	0.1%
United Kingdom	3	0.1%
Libya	3	0.1%
Canada	3	0.1%
Peru	3	0.1%
Tajikistan	3	0.1%
Thailand	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	5,962	100.0%
Germany	5,615	94.2%
Ukraine	100	1.7%
Romania	57	1.0%
Syrian Arab Republic	55	0.9%
Poland	42	0.7%
Afghanistan	28	0.5%
Russian Federation	14	0.2%
Austria	5	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	5	0.1%
Bulgaria	4	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Netherlands	4	0.1%
Hungary	4	0.1%
Uncertain	4	0.1%
Greece	3	0.1%
Czech Republic	3	0.1%
Tajikistan	3	0.1%
Thailand	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 Karstädt

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.

Grabow as a Karstädt alternative in the same region

18 km away, better on 3 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Rent: €5.22/m² Grabow vs €4.33/m² Karstädtno percentage
Unemployment: 6.3% Grabow vs 8.2% Karstädt−23%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 5,060 Grabow vs 6,478 Karstädt−22%
Median gross pay, region: €3,300 Grabow vs €3,200 Karstädt+3%

Full comparison More about Grabow

Böblingen as a Karstädt alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 533 km, better on 2 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 €3,200 Karstädt+53%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 6,478 Karstädt−41%
Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €4.33/m² Karstädtno percentage

Full comparison More about Böblingen

Cities near Karstädt

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

Perleberg 13.4 km away

Rent: 4.79 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Grabow 17.6 km away

Rent: 5.22 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Schnackenburg 17.9 km away

Rent: 3.82 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Wittenberge 18.1 km away

Rent: 5.07 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Lenzen (Elbe) 19.4 km away

Rent: 4.77 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Putlitz 22.9 km away

Rent: 4.54 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Ludwigslust 24.9 km away

Rent: 5.4 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Alternative cities in Germany

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

The published population was 5,803 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Karstädt?

Average net cold rent is 4.33 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 303 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Karstädt?

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 Karstädt?

The unemployment rate is 8.2 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Karstädt?

The median gross salary is 3,200 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Karstädt a good place to live?

Karstädt 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 Karstädt?

Perleberg, Grabow, Schnackenburg, Wittenberge, Lenzen (Elbe) are near Karstädt. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people born in Germany live in Karstädt?

The official country of birth distribution records 5,481 people (91.9%) 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 = {Karstädt, Germany: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {310c7a4813c65e2823122b6715bb0fa4},
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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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