Living in Odenthal

In Odenthal, rents across existing tenancies average €7.47 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 5.8% (2024).

The population of Odenthal totalled 15,782 at the end of 2024. Regional median gross salary figures for Odenthal showed €4,400 per month at the end of 2024. Annual PM2.5 was 9 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2318 sources

Population15,782people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)4,400EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent7.47EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 29% aboveOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate5.8%country median 5.1% — 14% aboveOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime5,207incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise

PM2.5, annual mean9µg/m³31 Dec 2024Nearest stationOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Pricier rent than 85% of German cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 66% 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 Odenthal?

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 Odenthal?

Average net cold rent is 7.47 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): 7.47 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 citiesOdenthal 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 Mbps⁶Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	49.95 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Telekom MagentaMobil M¹³Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	7.47 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Odenthal a good place to live?

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Remote worker52%strong on work, weak on safety · range 42–62%

Skilled employee56%strong on work, weak on education · range 47–65%

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

Family52%strong on family, weak on education · range 41–63%

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

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 448 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.47 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 Odenthal?

The unemployment rate is 5.8 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Odenthal is 5.8%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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1,332

658

239

2–44–66–88–1010–1212–1414–16

Odenthal 5.8%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	4,400 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	5.8 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Odenthal?

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

Left over each month€2,267of €2,814 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.	€2,814
Rent, 60 m²€7.47/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €448
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	€2,267

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

Public employment service

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

Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesOdenthal 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	5,207 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁹Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Odenthal's nearest airport was CGN, 19 km away and offered 92 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	92 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁷Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	19 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	CGN	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Odenthal's monthly mean temperatures were 3°C in January and 19°C in July. Odenthal's monthly precipitation totalled 61.7 mm in January and 87.4 mm in July. Odenthal's average monthly sunshine was 54.3 hours in January and 207.2 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Odenthal?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 9 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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6°0°

7°0°

11°2°

16°5°

20°8°

23°11°

25°13°

24°13°

20°10°

15°7°

10°3°

6°1°

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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

125

173

199

201

207

197

150

105

JFMAMJJASOND

hours

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

PM2.59WHO 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 Odenthal is 9.0 µg/m³. Of 477 cities with data, 164 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

110

164

101

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

Odenthal 9.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	9 µg/m³	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average daytime high by month	Jan 5.9 · Feb 7.2 · Mar 11.4 · Apr 16.1 · May 19.7 · Jun 22.7 · Jul 24.9 · Aug 24.5 · Sep 20.4 · Oct 15.2 · Nov 9.8 · Dec 6.5 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan 0 · Feb 0.1 · Mar 2 · Apr 4.5 · May 8.1 · Jun 11.2 · Jul 13.3 · Aug 12.8 · Sep 9.7 · Oct 6.8 · Nov 3.5 · Dec 1 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 3 · Feb 3.6 · Mar 6.7 · Apr 10.4 · May 14.1 · Jun 17.1 · Jul 19 · Aug 18.5 · Sep 14.8 · Oct 10.8 · Nov 6.7 · Dec 3.8 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 61.7 · Feb 53.8 · Mar 55 · Apr 48.2 · May 62.1 · Jun 86.3 · Jul 87.4 · Aug 83.3 · Sep 66.9 · Oct 64.7 · Nov 63.5 · Dec 69.2 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 54.3 · Feb 74.8 · Mar 124.8 · Apr 172.6 · May 198.7 · Jun 201.3 · Jul 207.2 · Aug 196.6 · Sep 149.5 · Oct 104.6 · Nov 58.9 · Dec 45.3 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁸Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Werl ±0.4 °C. Elsewhere: Reims (France) ±0.4 °C, Nancy (France) ±0.4 °C, Saanich (Canada) ±1.4 °C, Leuven (Belgium) ±0.7 °C, Antwerp (Belgium) ±0.8 °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 Odenthal?

The published population was 15,782 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	15,782 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²Official

International community in Odenthal

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	15,616	100.0%
Germany	13,813	88.5%
Poland	471	3.0%
Ukraine	108	0.7%
Turkey	97	0.6%
Russian Federation	80	0.5%
Romania	73	0.5%
Kazakhstan	63	0.4%
Syrian Arab Republic	62	0.4%
Italy	57	0.4%
Czech Republic	41	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
United States	32	0.2%
United Kingdom	31	0.2%
Iraq	31	0.2%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	30	0.2%
Croatia	29	0.2%
China	28	0.2%
Greece	27	0.2%
Austria	27	0.2%
Afghanistan	26	0.2%
France	23	0.1%
Netherlands	20	0.1%
Portugal	20	0.1%
Hungary	20	0.1%
Bulgaria	19	0.1%
Serbia	18	0.1%
Not stated	18	0.1%
Albania	17	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	16	0.1%
Switzerland	15	0.1%
Philippines	15	0.1%
Spain	12	0.1%
Thailand	12	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	10	0.1%
Brazil	10	0.1%
Latvia	9	0.1%
India	9	0.1%
Japan	9	0.1%
Finland	8	0.1%
Kosovo	8	0.1%
South Africa	8	0.1%
Belgium	7	0.0%
Nigeria	7	0.0%
Argentina	7	0.0%
Tajikistan	7	0.0%
Uzbekistan	7	0.0%
Canada	6	0.0%
Korea, Republic of	6	0.0%
Lithuania	5	0.0%
Luxembourg	5	0.0%
Guinea	5	0.0%
Cameroon	5	0.0%
Myanmar	5	0.0%
Slovenia	4	0.0%
Slovakia	4	0.0%
Eritrea	4	0.0%
Morocco	4	0.0%
Somalia	4	0.0%
Mexico	4	0.0%
Peru	4	0.0%
Georgia	4	0.0%
Viet Nam	4	0.0%
Lebanon	4	0.0%
Pakistan	4	0.0%
Singapore	4	0.0%
Denmark	3	0.0%
Ireland	3	0.0%
Moldova, Republic of	3	0.0%
Sweden	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Ethiopia	3	0.0%
Libya	3	0.0%
Egypt	3	0.0%
Bolivia, Plurinational State of	3	0.0%
Colombia	3	0.0%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	3	0.0%
Sri Lanka	3	0.0%
Indonesia	3	0.0%
Israel	3	0.0%
Kyrgyzstan	3	0.0%
Bangladesh	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	15,616	100.0%
Germany	14,686	94.0%
Ukraine	104	0.7%
Poland	85	0.5%
Italy	79	0.5%
Syrian Arab Republic	66	0.4%
Turkey	49	0.3%
Croatia	43	0.3%
Romania	40	0.3%
Afghanistan	29	0.2%
Iraq	29	0.2%

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Published group	People	Share
Greece	26	0.2%
Netherlands	24	0.2%
Austria	23	0.1%
China	21	0.1%
Spain	18	0.1%
Bulgaria	17	0.1%
Portugal	17	0.1%
Russian Federation	16	0.1%
Albania	13	0.1%
Serbia	13	0.1%
France	11	0.1%
Switzerland	11	0.1%
Nigeria	11	0.1%
United Kingdom	10	0.1%
Myanmar	9	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	0.1%
Eritrea	8	0.1%
Japan	8	0.1%
Uncertain	8	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	7	0.0%
United States	7	0.0%
Slovenia	6	0.0%
Kosovo	6	0.0%
Hungary	6	0.0%
Ireland	5	0.0%
Czech Republic	5	0.0%
Guinea	5	0.0%
Somalia	5	0.0%
Kazakhstan	5	0.0%
Morocco	4	0.0%
Armenia	4	0.0%
Singapore	4	0.0%
Thailand	4	0.0%
Australia	4	0.0%
Belgium	3	0.0%
Denmark	3	0.0%
Finland	3	0.0%
Latvia	3	0.0%
Slovakia	3	0.0%
Sweden	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Mali	3	0.0%
Egypt	3	0.0%
Brazil	3	0.0%
Canada	3	0.0%
Colombia	3	0.0%
Peru	3	0.0%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	3	0.0%
Israel	3	0.0%
Kyrgyzstan	3	0.0%
Bangladesh	3	0.0%
Philippines	3	0.0%
Korea, Republic of	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 Odenthal

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 an Odenthal 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.

Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €7.47/m² Odenthalno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 5,207 Odenthal−27%
Median gross pay, region: €4,900 Böblingen vs €4,400 Odenthal+11%

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Alternative cities in Germany

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

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Lübbenau/Spreewald / Lubnjow/Błota15,778 residents Boppard15,771 residents Guben15,794 residents Dieburg15,798 residents Schiffweiler15,805 residents Ascheberg15,831 residents

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Yes — migrants receive medical care in Odenthal 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; Odenthal's school authority applies it locally.

Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.

Is Odenthal part of Leverkusen?

Odenthal is in the published commuting zone of Leverkusen; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub. Leverkusen city profile

Relationship type: Commuting Zone Of. Source⁵

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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 Odenthal?

The published population was 15,782 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Odenthal?

Average net cold rent is 7.47 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 523 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Odenthal?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 9 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 Odenthal?

The unemployment rate is 5.8 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Odenthal?

The median gross salary is 4,400 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Odenthal a good place to live?

Odenthal 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.

Is Odenthal part of Leverkusen?

Odenthal is in the published commuting zone of Leverkusen; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub.

How many people born in Germany live in Odenthal?

The official country of birth distribution records 13,813 people (88.5%) 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 = {Odenthal, Germany: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
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Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Länder, Germany citizenship distribution ergebnisse.zensus2022.de · checked 2026-08-28

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