Living in Kaufering

In Kaufering, rents across existing tenancies average €8.50 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 2.9% (2024).

Kaufering had a population of 9,957 at the end of 2024. Regional median gross salary figures for Kaufering showed €4,450 per month at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2312 sources

Population9,957people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)4,450EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent8.5EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 46% aboveOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate2.9%country median 5.1% — 43% belowOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime2,676incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise

Pricier rent than 94% of German cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 94% 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 Kaufering?

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 Kaufering?

Average net cold rent is 8.5 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): 8.5 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 citiesKaufering 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 Mbps⁴Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	49.95 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Telekom MagentaMobil M¹²Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	8.5 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Kaufering a good place to live?

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Remote worker59%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 49–69%

Skilled employee65%strong on work, weak on education · range 56–74%

Student52%strong on legal route, weak on education · range 41–63%

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

Retirement50%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 37–63%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 510 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 8.5 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 Kaufering?

The unemployment rate is 2.9 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Kaufering is 2.9%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Kaufering 2.9%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	4,450 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	2.9 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Kaufering?

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

Left over each month€2,232of €2,841 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.	€2,841
Rent, 60 m²€8.50/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €510
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	€2,232

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Kaufering. 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

Job Search

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

Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesKaufering 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	2,676 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁸Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Kaufering's nearest airport was FMM, 49 km away and offered 21 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	21 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁶Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	49 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	FMM	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Kaufering. 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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Climate and air quality

Monthly mean temperature moved from −1.4°C in January to 17.9°C in July.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 12.57 · Feb 15.12 · Mar 20.47 · Apr 27.1 · May 29.35 · Jun 31.71 · Jul 32.41 · Aug 32.38 · Sep 27.36 · Oct 25.66 · Nov 18.56 · Dec 13.33 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁵Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -18.84 · Feb -19.63 · Mar -22.3 · Apr -6.05 · May -1.83 · Jun 2.47 · Jul 5.92 · Aug 4.86 · Sep -0.32 · Oct -6.68 · Nov -11.78 · Dec -17.03 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁵Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by month	Jan -1.45 · Feb -0.69 · Mar 3.44 · Apr 8.14 · May 12.37 · Jun 16.35 · Jul 17.91 · Aug 17.46 · Sep 13.14 · Oct 8.99 · Nov 3.67 · Dec -0.3 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁵Official · coordinate grid

Population and city profile

How many people live in Kaufering?

The published population was 9,957 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	9,957 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹Official

International community in Kaufering

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	9,848	100.0%
Germany	7,848	79.7%
Romania	346	3.5%
Kazakhstan	194	2.0%
Poland	153	1.6%
Czech Republic	137	1.4%
Russian Federation	111	1.1%
Ukraine	75	0.8%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	71	0.7%
Syrian Arab Republic	59	0.6%
Austria	55	0.6%

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Published group	People	Share
Turkey	53	0.5%
Kosovo	41	0.4%
Bulgaria	40	0.4%
Italy	40	0.4%
China	31	0.3%
Afghanistan	30	0.3%
Hungary	29	0.3%
Croatia	28	0.3%
India	28	0.3%
Serbia	26	0.3%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	26	0.3%
Uzbekistan	21	0.2%
Nigeria	20	0.2%
United States	20	0.2%
Iraq	20	0.2%
Switzerland	18	0.2%
Eritrea	17	0.2%
Spain	15	0.2%
United Kingdom	14	0.1%
Morocco	12	0.1%
Greece	11	0.1%
Brazil	11	0.1%
Albania	10	0.1%
Somalia	9	0.1%
Thailand	9	0.1%
France	8	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	8	0.1%
Not stated	8	0.1%
Slovenia	7	0.1%
Belarus	6	0.1%
Tunisia	6	0.1%
Colombia	6	0.1%
Philippines	6	0.1%
Korea, Republic of	6	0.1%
Belgium	5	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	5	0.1%
Netherlands	5	0.1%
Slovakia	5	0.1%
Kenya	5	0.1%
Chile	5	0.1%
Pakistan	5	0.1%
Saudi Arabia	5	0.1%
Australia	5	0.1%
Lithuania	4	0.0%
Togo	4	0.0%
Argentina	4	0.0%
Mexico	4	0.0%
Armenia	4	0.0%
Azerbaijan	4	0.0%
Japan	4	0.0%
Kyrgyzstan	4	0.0%
Tajikistan	4	0.0%
Latvia	3	0.0%
Portugal	3	0.0%
Sweden	3	0.0%
Gambia	3	0.0%
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	3	0.0%
South Africa	3	0.0%
Senegal	3	0.0%
Sierra Leone	3	0.0%
Uganda	3	0.0%
Egypt	3	0.0%
Bolivia, Plurinational State of	3	0.0%
Canada	3	0.0%
Cuba	3	0.0%
Jamaica	3	0.0%
Peru	3	0.0%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	3	0.0%
Yemen	3	0.0%
Georgia	3	0.0%
Israel	3	0.0%
Lebanon	3	0.0%
Mongolia	3	0.0%
Malaysia	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	9,848	100.0%
Germany	8,803	89.4%
Croatia	72	0.7%
Turkey	71	0.7%
Romania	69	0.7%
Syrian Arab Republic	63	0.6%
Poland	55	0.6%
Austria	51	0.5%
Ukraine	47	0.5%
Kosovo	46	0.5%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	42	0.4%

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Published group	People	Share
Bulgaria	42	0.4%
Italy	40	0.4%
Nigeria	35	0.4%
Afghanistan	35	0.4%
Iraq	25	0.3%
India	21	0.2%
Eritrea	20	0.2%
China	16	0.2%
Somalia	15	0.2%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	13	0.1%
Russian Federation	12	0.1%
Hungary	12	0.1%
United States	11	0.1%
Slovenia	10	0.1%
Greece	10	0.1%
Switzerland	10	0.1%
Morocco	10	0.1%
Saudi Arabia	9	0.1%
France	8	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	8	0.1%
Serbia	8	0.1%
Armenia	8	0.1%
Spain	7	0.1%
Czech Republic	7	0.1%
Senegal	7	0.1%
United Kingdom	6	0.1%
Pakistan	6	0.1%
Thailand	6	0.1%
Stateless	6	0.1%
Netherlands	5	0.1%
Portugal	5	0.1%
Slovakia	5	0.1%
Tunisia	5	0.1%
Kazakhstan	5	0.1%
Norway	4	0.0%
Argentina	4	0.0%
Mexico	4	0.0%
Albania	3	0.0%
Latvia	3	0.0%
Lithuania	3	0.0%
Sweden	3	0.0%
Gambia	3	0.0%
Sierra Leone	3	0.0%
Uganda	3	0.0%
Brazil	3	0.0%
Chile	3	0.0%
Colombia	3	0.0%
Cuba	3	0.0%
Jamaica	3	0.0%
Peru	3	0.0%
Yemen	3	0.0%
Viet Nam	3	0.0%
Korea, Democratic People'S Republic of	3	0.0%
Indonesia	3	0.0%
Mongolia	3	0.0%
Philippines	3	0.0%
Taiwan, Province of China	3	0.0%
Korea, Republic of	3	0.0%
Tajikistan	3	0.0%
Australia	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 Kaufering

Nothing here reaches an argued comparison yet: no other published city shares enough metrics with Kaufering from the same source, period and grain. What is collected is below.

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

The published population was 9,957 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Kaufering?

Average net cold rent is 8.5 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 595 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

What is the unemployment rate in Kaufering?

The unemployment rate is 2.9 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Kaufering?

The median gross salary is 4,450 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Kaufering a good place to live?

Kaufering 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 Kaufering?

The official country of birth distribution records 7,848 people (79.7%) 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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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
MagentaZuhause L 100 Mbps telekom.de · checked 2026-09-15
NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center power.larc.nasa.gov · checked 2026-08-05
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
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