Living in Rodenbach

In Rodenbach, rents across existing tenancies average €7.14 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 5.6% (2024).

Rodenbach's population was 11,074 at the end of 2024. At the end of 2024, the regional median gross salary stood at €4,150 per month. At the end of 2024, annual PM2.5 reached 7 µg/m³.

Last checked 2026-09-2317 sources

Population11,074people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)4,150EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent7.14EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 23% aboveOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate5.6%country median 5.1% — 10% aboveOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime4,131incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise

PM2.5, annual mean7µg/m³31 Dec 2024Nearest stationOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Pricier rent than 80% of German cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 62% 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 Rodenbach?

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 Rodenbach?

Average net cold rent is 7.14 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): 7.14 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 citiesRodenbach 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 M¹⁴Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	7.14 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Rodenbach a good place to live?

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Remote worker53%strong on work, weak on safety · range 43–63%

Skilled employee57%strong on work, weak on education · range 48–66%

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

Family53%strong on family, weak on education · range 42–64%

Retirement55%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 42–68%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 428 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.14 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 Rodenbach?

The unemployment rate is 5.6 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Rodenbach is 5.6%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Rodenbach 5.6%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	4,150 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	5.6 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Rodenbach?

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

Left over each month€2,155of €2,682 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.	€2,682
Rent, 60 m²€7.14/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €428
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	€2,155

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Rodenbach. 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 citiesRodenbach 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	4,131 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise¹⁰Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Rodenbach's nearest airport was FRA, 37 km away and offered 239 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	239 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁸Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	37 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁹Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	FRA	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁹Official

Language courses and integration

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

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For migrants needing job-related German.

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Climate and air quality

Monthly mean temperatures were 0.3°C in January and 20.9°C in July. Monthly precipitation was 47.5 mm in January and 67.6 mm in July.

Is the air quality good in Rodenbach?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 7 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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5°-1°

7°0°

11°1°

17°5°

20°9°

24°12°

27°14°

25°14°

21°10°

15°6°

10°3°

6°1°

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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

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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

PM2.57WHO 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 Rodenbach is 7.0 µg/m³. Of 477 cities with data, 164 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Rodenbach 7.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	7 µg/m³	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average daytime high by month	Jan 5 · Feb 6.7 · Mar 11.3 · Apr 17.3 · May 20.5 · Jun 24.1 · Jul 26.6 · Aug 25.4 · Sep 21.2 · Oct 15.3 · Nov 9.5 · Dec 5.9 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -0.6 · Feb -0.4 · Mar 1.4 · Apr 4.9 · May 8.6 · Jun 12.5 · Jul 14.3 · Aug 13.7 · Sep 10 · Oct 6.4 · Nov 3.3 · Dec 0.7 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 0.29 · Feb 1.35 · Mar 5.02 · Apr 9.9 · May 14.31 · Jun 18.62 · Jul 20.91 · Aug 20.27 · Sep 15.6 · Oct 10.29 · Nov 5.06 · Dec 1.33 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁷Official · coordinate grid
Average precipitation by month	Jan 47.5 · Feb 43.6 · Mar 43.9 · Apr 35.6 · May 75.1 · Jun 70 · Jul 67.6 · Aug 72.9 · Sep 46.4 · Oct 46.9 · Nov 46.4 · Dec 63.4 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Werl ±0.9 °C. Elsewhere: Reims (France) ±0.9 °C, Mulhouse (France) ±0.4 °C, Metz (France) ±0.6 °C, Nancy (France) ±0.4 °C, Gentofte (Denmark) ±1.8 °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 Rodenbach?

The published population was 11,074 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹³

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	11,074 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹³Official

International community in Rodenbach

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	10,834	100.0%
Germany	8,829	81.5%
Poland	309	2.9%
Turkey	191	1.8%
Czech Republic	133	1.2%
Syrian Arab Republic	90	0.8%
Romania	89	0.8%
Italy	71	0.7%
Afghanistan	69	0.6%
Not stated	60	0.6%
Bulgaria	51	0.5%

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Published group	People	Share
Croatia	48	0.4%
Russian Federation	48	0.4%
Ukraine	44	0.4%
Kazakhstan	44	0.4%
United States	42	0.4%
Serbia	40	0.4%
Morocco	35	0.3%
Austria	32	0.3%
Pakistan	32	0.3%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	30	0.3%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	29	0.3%
Moldova, Republic of	27	0.2%
Hungary	26	0.2%
France	25	0.2%
Lithuania	25	0.2%
Slovakia	23	0.2%
Kosovo	22	0.2%
Spain	22	0.2%
Iraq	20	0.2%
Slovenia	19	0.2%
United Kingdom	19	0.2%
India	17	0.2%
Philippines	16	0.1%
Thailand	15	0.1%
Lebanon	14	0.1%
China	12	0.1%
Portugal	11	0.1%
Brazil	10	0.1%
Eritrea	9	0.1%
Cameroon	9	0.1%
Greece	8	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	8	0.1%
Viet Nam	8	0.1%
Switzerland	7	0.1%
South Africa	7	0.1%
Armenia	7	0.1%
Dominican Republic	6	0.1%
Colombia	6	0.1%
Peru	6	0.1%
Albania	5	0.0%
Belgium	5	0.0%
Montenegro	5	0.0%
Tunisia	5	0.0%
Sri Lanka	5	0.0%
Korea, Republic of	5	0.0%
Ireland	4	0.0%
Latvia	4	0.0%
Kenya	4	0.0%
Egypt	4	0.0%
Japan	4	0.0%
Uzbekistan	4	0.0%
Luxembourg	3	0.0%
Sweden	3	0.0%
Belarus	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Angola	3	0.0%
Nigeria	3	0.0%
Congo	3	0.0%
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	3	0.0%
Namibia	3	0.0%
Sudan	3	0.0%
Argentina	3	0.0%
Chile	3	0.0%
Mexico	3	0.0%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	3	0.0%
Trinidad and Tobago	3	0.0%
Azerbaijan	3	0.0%
Georgia	3	0.0%
Indonesia	3	0.0%
Israel	3	0.0%
Kyrgyzstan	3	0.0%
Tajikistan	3	0.0%
Saudi Arabia	3	0.0%
Malaysia	3	0.0%
Australia	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	10,834	100.0%
Germany	9,494	87.6%
Turkey	194	1.8%
Syrian Arab Republic	117	1.1%
Poland	99	0.9%
Italy	98	0.9%
Romania	72	0.7%
Croatia	62	0.6%
Afghanistan	62	0.6%
Bulgaria	60	0.6%
Uncertain	49	0.5%

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Published group	People	Share
Serbia	33	0.3%
United States	28	0.3%
Ukraine	27	0.2%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	26	0.2%
Austria	25	0.2%
Czech Republic	25	0.2%
Iraq	21	0.2%
Spain	20	0.2%
Lithuania	19	0.2%
Portugal	16	0.1%
Slovakia	16	0.1%
France	15	0.1%
Hungary	15	0.1%
Lebanon	15	0.1%
Morocco	14	0.1%
Kosovo	13	0.1%
China	12	0.1%
Pakistan	11	0.1%
Thailand	11	0.1%
Russian Federation	10	0.1%
India	10	0.1%
Montenegro	9	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	9	0.1%
Slovenia	8	0.1%
Greece	8	0.1%
Tunisia	8	0.1%
Philippines	7	0.1%
Eritrea	5	0.0%
Somalia	5	0.0%
Brazil	5	0.0%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	4	0.0%
United Kingdom	4	0.0%
Cameroon	4	0.0%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	4	0.0%
Albania	3	0.0%
Belgium	3	0.0%
Ireland	3	0.0%
Switzerland	3	0.0%
Belarus	3	0.0%
Ethiopia	3	0.0%
Kenya	3	0.0%
Congo	3	0.0%
Mexico	3	0.0%
Peru	3	0.0%
Trinidad and Tobago	3	0.0%
Azerbaijan	3	0.0%
Sri Lanka	3	0.0%
Israel	3	0.0%
Japan	3	0.0%
Kazakhstan	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

Alternatives for people set on Rodenbach

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 Rodenbach 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 €7.14/m² Rodenbachno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €4,900 Böblingen vs €4,150 Rodenbach+18%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 4,131 Rodenbach−8%

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Alternative cities in Germany

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Schöningen11,078 residents Gengenbach11,081 residents Denkendorf11,092 residents Werther (Westf.)11,051 residents Herrsching am Ammersee11,099 residents Boizenburg/ Elbe11,048 residents

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

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

Is Rodenbach part of Frankfurt?

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

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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 Rodenbach?

The published population was 11,074 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Rodenbach?

Average net cold rent is 7.14 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 500 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Rodenbach?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 7 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 Rodenbach?

The unemployment rate is 5.6 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Rodenbach?

The median gross salary is 4,150 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Rodenbach a good place to live?

Rodenbach 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 Rodenbach part of Frankfurt?

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

How many people born in Germany live in Rodenbach?

The official country of birth distribution records 8,829 people (81.5%) 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 = {Rodenbach, Germany: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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}

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European Environment Agency air.discomap.eea.europa.eu · checked 2026-08-05
GISCO Urban Audit 2021 — Functional Urban Areas (URAU_RG_100K_2021_4326_FUA) GISCO Urban Audit 2021 · gisco-services.ec.europa.eu · checked 2026-09-19
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

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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
World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI nodc.noaa.gov · checked 2026-08-05
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