Living in Mühlhausen

In Mühlhausen, rents across existing tenancies average €7.27 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 4.2% (2024).

Mühlhausen's population was 8,753 at the end of 2024. The regional median gross salary was €4,450 per month at the end of 2024. Mühlhausen recorded annual PM2.5 of 10 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2313 sources

Population8,753people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

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

Average net rent7.27EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 25% aboveOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate4.2%country median 5.1% — 18% belowOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime3,904incidents 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

Pricier rent than 82% of German cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 69% 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 Mühlhausen?

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 Mühlhausen?

Average net cold rent is 7.27 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): 7.27 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 citiesMühlhausen 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 M¹³Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	7.27 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Mühlhausen a good place to live?

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

Skilled employee61%strong on work, weak on education · range 52–70%

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

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

Retirement53%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 40–66%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 436 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.27 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 Mühlhausen?

The unemployment rate is 4.2 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Mühlhausen is 4.2%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Mühlhausen 4.2%

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	4.2 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Mühlhausen?

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

Left over each month€2,306of €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€7.27/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €436
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	€2,306

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Public employment offices in Mühlhausen

Exact offices linked to this city from official sources. Check the office page before visiting because hours and appointment rules can change.

Verified locally

Mühlhausen — Verified local office

Thomas-Müntzer-Str. 14, 99974 Mühlhausen, 99974

+49-3601-4620-0

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Only exact city-linked public offices are listed; this is not a complete directory of private recruiters or every employment provider. Sources checked through 11 Aug 2026.

Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesMühlhausen 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	3,904 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁹Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Mühlhausen's nearest airport was MHG, 29 km away and offered 1 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	1 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁷Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	29 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	MHG	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Mühlhausen's monthly mean temperatures were 0.1°C in January and 19.9°C in July.

Is the air quality good in Mühlhausen?

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.

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 Mühlhausen 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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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
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 12.44 · Feb 15.98 · Mar 21.72 · Apr 28.22 · May 29.9 · Jun 35.33 · Jul 37.26 · Aug 38.45 · Sep 32.18 · Oct 26.43 · Nov 20.44 · Dec 14.37 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁶Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -19.07 · Feb -17.95 · Mar -19.82 · Apr -5.19 · May -1.02 · Jun 3.5 · Jul 6.77 · Aug 6.6 · Sep -0.1 · Oct -6.9 · Nov -7.97 · Dec -17.64 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁶Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by month	Jan 0.09 · Feb 0.94 · Mar 4.63 · Apr 9.27 · May 13.53 · Jun 17.75 · Jul 19.9 · Aug 19.43 · Sep 14.89 · Oct 10.11 · Nov 4.82 · Dec 1.1 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁶Official · coordinate grid

Population and city profile

How many people live in Mühlhausen?

The published population was 8,753 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	8,753 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²Official

International community in Mühlhausen

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	8,702	100.0%
Germany	7,361	84.6%
Turkey	230	2.6%
Poland	105	1.2%
Romania	69	0.8%
Italy	68	0.8%
Hungary	61	0.7%
Kazakhstan	61	0.7%
Russian Federation	59	0.7%
Kosovo	57	0.7%
Czech Republic	52	0.6%

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Published group	People	Share
Ukraine	50	0.6%
Bulgaria	39	0.4%
Serbia	30	0.3%
Syrian Arab Republic	25	0.3%
India	24	0.3%
Not stated	24	0.3%
Philippines	23	0.3%
Afghanistan	22	0.3%
Gambia	21	0.2%
France	18	0.2%
Austria	18	0.2%
United States	18	0.2%
Croatia	15	0.2%
Nigeria	14	0.2%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	13	0.1%
Greece	12	0.1%
Netherlands	11	0.1%
Brazil	11	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	11	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	10	0.1%
United Kingdom	10	0.1%
China	10	0.1%
Slovenia	8	0.1%
Spain	8	0.1%
Thailand	8	0.1%
Uzbekistan	8	0.1%
Slovakia	7	0.1%
Portugal	6	0.1%
South Africa	6	0.1%
Viet Nam	6	0.1%
Iraq	6	0.1%
Pakistan	5	0.1%
Belgium	4	0.0%
Estonia	4	0.0%
Ireland	4	0.0%
Lithuania	4	0.0%
Moldova, Republic of	4	0.0%
Switzerland	4	0.0%
Belarus	4	0.0%
Tajikistan	4	0.0%
Denmark	3	0.0%
Latvia	3	0.0%
Luxembourg	3	0.0%
Malta	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Eritrea	3	0.0%
Ethiopia	3	0.0%
Guinea	3	0.0%
Cameroon	3	0.0%
Namibia	3	0.0%
Argentina	3	0.0%
Chile	3	0.0%
Haiti	3	0.0%
Cuba	3	0.0%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	3	0.0%
Azerbaijan	3	0.0%
Georgia	3	0.0%
Kyrgyzstan	3	0.0%
Taiwan, Province of China	3	0.0%
Korea, Republic of	3	0.0%
Malaysia	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	8,702	100.0%
Germany	7,729	88.8%
Turkey	205	2.4%
Italy	97	1.1%
Kosovo	55	0.6%
Ukraine	51	0.6%
Romania	48	0.6%
Bulgaria	42	0.5%
Hungary	42	0.5%
Poland	37	0.4%
Afghanistan	28	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Croatia	24	0.3%
Russian Federation	24	0.3%
Gambia	21	0.2%
India	21	0.2%
Serbia	19	0.2%
France	18	0.2%
United States	18	0.2%
Austria	16	0.2%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	15	0.2%
Netherlands	15	0.2%
Nigeria	15	0.2%
Syrian Arab Republic	15	0.2%
Greece	13	0.1%
United Kingdom	11	0.1%
Philippines	11	0.1%
Thailand	10	0.1%
Uncertain	10	0.1%
Slovakia	8	0.1%
China	8	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	7	0.1%
Slovenia	6	0.1%
Ireland	6	0.1%
Switzerland	6	0.1%
Portugal	5	0.1%
Spain	5	0.1%
Canada	5	0.1%
Czech Republic	4	0.0%
Brazil	4	0.0%
Viet Nam	4	0.0%
Iraq	4	0.0%
Albania	3	0.0%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	0.0%
Belgium	3	0.0%
Estonia	3	0.0%
Latvia	3	0.0%
Lithuania	3	0.0%
Belarus	3	0.0%
Eritrea	3	0.0%
Ghana	3	0.0%
Guinea	3	0.0%
Cameroon	3	0.0%
South Africa	3	0.0%
Korea, Republic of	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

Alternatives for people set on Mühlhausen

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 Mühlhausen 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.

Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €7.27/m² Mühlhausenno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €4,900 Böblingen vs €4,450 Mühlhausen+10%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 3,904 Mühlhausensame level

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Alternative cities in Germany

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

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Herzberg8,753 residents Waldenbuch8,750 residents Wenzenbach8,757 residents Zschopau8,760 residents Schwaig8,761 residents Neustadt an der Orla8,743 residents

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

The published population was 8,753 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Mühlhausen?

Average net cold rent is 7.27 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 509 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Mühlhausen?

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 Mühlhausen?

The unemployment rate is 4.2 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Mühlhausen?

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

Is Mühlhausen a good place to live?

Mühlhausen 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 Mühlhausen?

The official country of birth distribution records 7,361 people (84.6%) 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
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

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Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Länder, Germany country of birth distribution ergebnisse.zensus2022.de · checked 2026-08-28
Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) destatis.de · checked 2026-08-05
Telekom MagentaMobil M telekom.de · checked 2026-09-15

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