Living in Pleinfeld

In Pleinfeld, rents across existing tenancies average €5.80 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 3.6% (2024).

Residents of Pleinfeld numbered 7,350 at the end of 2024. At the end of 2024, the regional median gross salary stood at €3,800 per month.

Last checked 2026-09-2316 sources

Population7,350people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)3,800EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent5.8EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — about the sameOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate3.6%country median 5.1% — 29% belowOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime3,019incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise

Lower unemployment than 84% 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 Pleinfeld?

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 Pleinfeld?

Average net cold rent is 5.8 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): 5.8 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 citiesPleinfeld 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 M¹¹Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	5.8 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — about the same	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Pleinfeld a good place to live?

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Remote worker63%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 53–73%

Skilled employee66%strong on work, weak on education · range 57–75%

Student59%strong on cost, weak on education · range 48–70%

Family62%strong on family, weak on education · range 51–73%

Retirement56%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 43–69%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 348 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 5.8 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 Pleinfeld?

The unemployment rate is 3.6 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Pleinfeld is 3.6%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Pleinfeld 3.6%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	3,800 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	3.6 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Pleinfeld?

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

Left over each month€2,047of €2,494 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.	€2,494
Rent, 60 m²€5.80/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €348
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	€2,047

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Pleinfeld. 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 citiesPleinfeld 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	3,019 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁷Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Pleinfeld's nearest airport was NUE, 44 km away and offered 32 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	32 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁵Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	44 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁶Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	NUE	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁶Official

Language courses and integration

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

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 0.3°C in January to 19°C in July. Pleinfeld's monthly precipitation totalled 44.3 mm in January and 83.9 mm in July. Pleinfeld's average monthly sunshine was 57.2 hours in January and 239.6 hours in July.

Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C

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3°-2°

5°-2°

10°0°

15°4°

19°8°

23°11°

25°13°

20°9°

14°6°

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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

135

189

219

229

240

228

166

110

JFMAMJJASOND

hours

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average daytime high by month	Jan 3.1 · Feb 5 · Mar 9.8 · Apr 15.1 · May 19.4 · Jun 22.9 · Jul 24.9 · Aug 24.8 · Sep 19.7 · Oct 13.9 · Nov 7.5 · Dec 3.8 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹²Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -2.5 · Feb -2.4 · Mar 0.4 · Apr 3.5 · May 7.8 · Jun 11.2 · Jul 13 · Aug 12.8 · Sep 8.9 · Oct 5.5 · Nov 1.7 · Dec -1.2 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹³Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 0.3 · Feb 1.1 · Mar 4.9 · Apr 9.4 · May 13.8 · Jun 17.2 · Jul 19 · Aug 18.7 · Sep 14 · Oct 9.4 · Nov 4.5 · Dec 1.3 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 44.3 · Feb 37.3 · Mar 44.5 · Apr 38.1 · May 69 · Jun 75.9 · Jul 83.9 · Aug 71.7 · Sep 49.2 · Oct 51.3 · Nov 48.8 · Dec 52.5 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 57.2 · Feb 85.7 · Mar 135.2 · Apr 188.5 · May 219.4 · Jun 229.1 · Jul 239.6 · Aug 228.2 · Sep 165.9 · Oct 109.9 · Nov 54 · Dec 45.4 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Hoyerswerda ±0.3 °C. Elsewhere: Bytom (Poland) ±0.6 °C, Chorzów (Poland) ±0.6 °C, Ruda Śląska (Poland) ±0.6 °C, Sosnowiec (Poland) ±0.6 °C, Tychy (Poland) ±0.6 °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 Pleinfeld?

The published population was 7,350 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹⁰

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	7,350 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹⁰Official

International community in Pleinfeld

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	7,457	100.0%
Germany	6,556	87.9%
Romania	151	2.0%
Poland	125	1.7%
Ukraine	103	1.4%
Czech Republic	79	1.1%
Hungary	41	0.5%
Kosovo	39	0.5%
Russian Federation	32	0.4%
Kazakhstan	30	0.4%
Turkey	27	0.4%

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Published group	People	Share
Syrian Arab Republic	27	0.4%
Not stated	22	0.3%
Italy	21	0.3%
Austria	20	0.3%
Albania	14	0.2%
Serbia	12	0.2%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	10	0.1%
Iraq	10	0.1%
Thailand	10	0.1%
Croatia	9	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	9	0.1%
Spain	8	0.1%
United States	8	0.1%
Greece	7	0.1%
France	5	0.1%
Afghanistan	5	0.1%
Uzbekistan	5	0.1%
China	5	0.1%
Bulgaria	4	0.1%
United Kingdom	4	0.1%
Nigeria	4	0.1%
Pakistan	4	0.1%
Philippines	4	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	0.0%
Denmark	3	0.0%
Finland	3	0.0%
Slovenia	3	0.0%
Netherlands	3	0.0%
Slovakia	3	0.0%
Switzerland	3	0.0%
Kenya	3	0.0%
Brazil	3	0.0%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	3	0.0%
Azerbaijan	3	0.0%
India	3	0.0%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	3	0.0%
Cambodia	3	0.0%
Tajikistan	3	0.0%
Turkmenistan	3	0.0%
Saudi Arabia	3	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁹

Citizenship

Persons · 2022-05-15

Published group	People	Share
Total	7,457	100.0%
Germany	6,826	91.5%
Romania	134	1.8%
Ukraine	106	1.4%
Poland	66	0.9%
Kosovo	47	0.6%
Hungary	45	0.6%
Syrian Arab Republic	31	0.4%
Italy	21	0.3%
Turkey	18	0.2%
Austria	17	0.2%

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Published group	People	Share
Greece	15	0.2%
Albania	13	0.2%
Russian Federation	13	0.2%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	12	0.2%
Czech Republic	12	0.2%
France	6	0.1%
Croatia	6	0.1%
Lithuania	6	0.1%
Spain	5	0.1%
Serbia	5	0.1%
Iraq	5	0.1%
Thailand	5	0.1%
Bulgaria	4	0.1%
United Kingdom	4	0.1%
Pakistan	4	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	0.0%
Denmark	3	0.0%
Finland	3	0.0%
Slovenia	3	0.0%
Netherlands	3	0.0%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	3	0.0%
United States	3	0.0%
Afghanistan	3	0.0%
Azerbaijan	3	0.0%
India	3	0.0%
Cambodia	3	0.0%
Philippines	3	0.0%
Taiwan, Province of China	3	0.0%
Uncertain	3	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁸

Alternatives for people set on Pleinfeld

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 Pleinfeld alternative in the same country

Better on 1 of 2 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Median gross pay, region: €4,900 Böblingen vs €3,800 Pleinfeld+29%
Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €5.80/m² Pleinfeldno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 3,019 Pleinfeld+26%

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Alternative cities in Germany

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

The published population was 7,350 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Pleinfeld?

Average net cold rent is 5.8 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 406 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

What is the unemployment rate in Pleinfeld?

The unemployment rate is 3.6 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Pleinfeld?

The median gross salary is 3,800 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Pleinfeld a good place to live?

Pleinfeld 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 Pleinfeld?

The official country of birth distribution records 6,556 people (87.9%) 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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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
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
Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) destatis.de · checked 2026-08-05

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Telekom MagentaMobil M telekom.de · checked 2026-09-15
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