Living in Murg

In Murg, rents across existing tenancies average €7.06 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 4.2% (2024).

Murg numbered 6,900 residents at the end of 2024. At the end of 2024, the regional median gross salary stood at €3,850 per month.

Last checked 2026-09-2314 sources

Population6,900people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)3,850EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent7.06EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 22% aboveOfficial source · Destatis

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

Recorded crime4,214incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise

Pricier rent than 79% 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 Murg?

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Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Murg?

Average net cold rent is 7.06 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): 7.06 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 citiesMurg 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 M¹⁴Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	7.06 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Murg a good place to live?

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

Skilled employee62%strong on work, weak on education · range 53–71%

Student56%strong on cost, weak on education · range 45–67%

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

Retirement54%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 41–67%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 424 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.06 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 Murg?

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

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

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Murg 4.2%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	3,850 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 Murg?

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

Left over each month€1,999of €2,521 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.	€2,521
Rent, 60 m²€7.06/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €424
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	€1,999

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

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Murg. 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 Murg. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesMurg 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	4,214 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise¹⁰Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Murg's nearest airport was FDH, 112 km away and offered 12 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	12 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁸Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	112 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁹Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	FDH	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁹Official

Language courses and integration

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

Murg's monthly mean temperatures were −0.6°C in January and 18.6°C in July. Murg's monthly precipitation totalled 54.5 mm in January and 108.3 mm in July. Murg's average monthly sunshine was 64 hours in January and 231.5 hours in July.

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

111

101

108

JFMAMJJASOND

Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

137

169

187

210

232

214

159

104

JFMAMJJASOND

hours

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 12.49 · Feb 15.51 · Mar 19.98 · Apr 25.13 · May 28.49 · Jun 32.36 · Jul 32.92 · Aug 32.3 · Sep 26.81 · Oct 24.13 · Nov 20.13 · Dec 14.39 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁵Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -15.37 · Feb -18.76 · Mar -19.29 · Apr -5.83 · May -1.62 · Jun 1.65 · Jul 6.38 · Aug 5.74 · Sep 0.44 · Oct -7.27 · Nov -10 · Dec -15.28 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁵Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by month	Jan -0.56 · Feb 0.25 · Mar 4.38 · Apr 8.93 · May 13.01 · Jun 17.09 · Jul 18.61 · Aug 18.1 · Sep 13.99 · Oct 9.72 · Nov 4.21 · Dec 0.34 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁵Official · coordinate grid
Average precipitation by month	Jan 54.5 · Feb 49.1 · Mar 58.3 · Apr 74.4 · May 111.2 · Jun 101.1 · Jul 108.3 · Aug 108.1 · Sep 82.3 · Oct 78.7 · Nov 73.4 · Dec 72.2 mm	31 Dec 1991	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 64 · Feb 85.8 · Mar 136.7 · Apr 169.2 · May 187.3 · Jun 210.3 · Jul 231.5 · Aug 213.9 · Sep 159.4 · Oct 103.6 · Nov 65.2 · Dec 55.2 hours	31 Dec 1991	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO⁷Official · nearest-station reading

Population and city profile

How many people live in Murg?

The published population was 6,900 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹³

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	6,900 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹³Official

International community in Murg

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	6,813	100.0%
Germany	5,310	77.9%
Switzerland	390	5.7%
Italy	335	4.9%
Turkey	112	1.6%
Poland	72	1.1%
Kosovo	53	0.8%
Romania	46	0.7%
Ukraine	46	0.7%
Russian Federation	34	0.5%
Syrian Arab Republic	34	0.5%

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Published group	People	Share
Kazakhstan	30	0.4%
Spain	24	0.4%
Czech Republic	24	0.4%
Serbia	23	0.3%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	18	0.3%
Austria	16	0.2%
Nigeria	15	0.2%
Hungary	14	0.2%
Afghanistan	13	0.2%
Not stated	13	0.2%
Croatia	12	0.2%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	0.1%
Netherlands	9	0.1%
United Kingdom	8	0.1%
Philippines	8	0.1%
South Africa	7	0.1%
Thailand	7	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	6	0.1%
Pakistan	6	0.1%
Sweden	5	0.1%
Algeria	5	0.1%
Mexico	5	0.1%
United States	5	0.1%
India	5	0.1%
Iraq	5	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	5	0.1%
China	5	0.1%
Albania	4	0.1%
France	4	0.1%
Slovenia	4	0.1%
Gambia	4	0.1%
Peru	4	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	4	0.1%
Bulgaria	3	0.0%
Greece	3	0.0%
Ireland	3	0.0%
Lithuania	3	0.0%
Slovakia	3	0.0%
Belarus	3	0.0%
Eritrea	3	0.0%
Morocco	3	0.0%
Cameroon	3	0.0%
Senegal	3	0.0%
Argentina	3	0.0%
Brazil	3	0.0%
Sri Lanka	3	0.0%
Jordan	3	0.0%
Cambodia	3	0.0%
Turkmenistan	3	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹²

Citizenship

Persons · 2022-05-15

Published group	People	Share
Total	6,813	100.0%
Germany	5,635	82.7%
Italy	546	8.0%
Turkey	116	1.7%
Kosovo	61	0.9%
Ukraine	47	0.7%
Romania	46	0.7%
Switzerland	45	0.7%
Syrian Arab Republic	39	0.6%
Poland	24	0.4%
Nigeria	24	0.4%

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Published group	People	Share
Spain	22	0.3%
Afghanistan	20	0.3%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	11	0.2%
Serbia	11	0.2%
Austria	10	0.1%
Czech Republic	10	0.1%
Croatia	9	0.1%
Uncertain	9	0.1%
Hungary	8	0.1%
Cameroon	8	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	7	0.1%
Netherlands	7	0.1%
Greece	6	0.1%
Pakistan	6	0.1%
Thailand	6	0.1%
China	6	0.1%
Albania	5	0.1%
Russian Federation	5	0.1%
Philippines	5	0.1%
United Kingdom	4	0.1%
Gambia	4	0.1%
India	4	0.1%
Iraq	4	0.1%
Bulgaria	3	0.0%
France	3	0.0%
Slovenia	3	0.0%
Lithuania	3	0.0%
Moldova, Republic of	3	0.0%
Portugal	3	0.0%
Belarus	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Eritrea	3	0.0%
South Africa	3	0.0%
Senegal	3	0.0%
Dominican Republic	3	0.0%
Sri Lanka	3	0.0%
Cambodia	3	0.0%

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

Alternatives for people set on Murg

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 Murg alternative in the same country

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 €3,850 Murg+27%
Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €7.06/m² Murgno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 4,214 Murg−10%

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Alternative cities in Germany

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

The published population was 6,900 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Murg?

Average net cold rent is 7.06 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 494 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

What is the unemployment rate in Murg?

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

What is the typical salary around Murg?

The median gross salary is 3,850 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Murg a good place to live?

Murg 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 Murg?

The official country of birth distribution records 5,310 people (77.9%) 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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Sources

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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
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO nodc.noaa.gov · checked 2026-08-05
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO nodc.noaa.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

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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
Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) destatis.de · checked 2026-08-05
Telekom MagentaMobil M telekom.de · checked 2026-09-15

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