Living in Saal

In Saal, rents across existing tenancies average €4.42 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 9.2% (2024).

Residents of Saal numbered 1,453 at the end of 2024. At the end of 2024, the regional median gross salary stood at €4,000 per month. Annual PM2.5 was 7 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2318 sources

Population1,453people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)4,000EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent4.42EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 24% belowOfficial source · Destatis — Zensus 2022 Regionaltabelle Wohnungen (QMMIETE: durchschnittliche Nettokaltmiete je m²)

Unemployment rate9.2%country median 5.1% — 80% aboveOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime2,582incidents 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

Cheaper rent than 96% of German cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 97% 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 Saal?

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 Saal?

Average net cold rent is 4.42 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): 4.42 EUR/m²/month · Destatis — Zensus 2022 Regionaltabelle Wohnungen (QMMIETE: durchschnittliche Nettokaltmiete je m²)³

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Mobile plan, 10 GB€50

Internet, 60 Mbps€49

Net rent across major citiesSaal highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Munich€15.38

Hamburg€9.94

Stuttgart€9.72

Augsburg€9.10

Dortmund€6.00

Saal€4.42

Show the other 6 cities

Mannheim€9.09

Berlin€7.71

Dresden€7.20

Bielefeld€6.72

Duisburg€6.66

Leipzig€6.27

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)	4.42 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis — Zensus 2022 Regionaltabelle Wohnungen (QMMIETE: durchschnittliche Nettokaltmiete je m²)³Official

Is Saal a good place to live?

There is no universal answer. The profile scores below show who the available published evidence may suit; they are a decision aid, not a personal recommendation.

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

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

Student66%strong on cost, weak on education · range 55–77%

Family54%strong on safety, weak on education · range 43–65%

Retirement62%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 49–75%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 265 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 4.42 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 Saal?

The unemployment rate is 9.2 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Saal is 9.2%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Saal 9.2%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	4,000 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	9.2 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Saal?

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

Left over each month€2,238of €2,602 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.	€2,602
Rent, 60 m²€4.42/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €265
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	€2,238

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

Public employment service

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

Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesSaal 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	2,582 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁹Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Saal's nearest airport was MUC, 62 km away and offered 191 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	191 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁷Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	62 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	MUC	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Saal. 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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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Saal.

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Climate and air quality

Monthly mean temperatures were −0.4°C in January and 19.3°C in July. Saal's monthly precipitation totalled 48.3 mm in January and 76.9 mm in July. Saal's average monthly sunshine was 47.6 hours in January and 234.4 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Saal?

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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16°4°

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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

131

187

216

226

234

221

159

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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

PM2.57WHO 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 Saal 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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3–44–55–66–77–88–99–1010–1111–1212–1313–14

Saal 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 2.3 · Feb 4.7 · Mar 10.3 · Apr 16.5 · May 20.7 · Jun 24.2 · Jul 26.1 · Aug 25.8 · Sep 20.3 · Oct 13.9 · Nov 6.9 · Dec 2.9 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -2.9 · Feb -2.5 · Mar 0.5 · Apr 3.8 · May 8.1 · Jun 11.7 · Jul 13.4 · Aug 13.2 · Sep 9.2 · Oct 5.3 · Nov 1.5 · Dec -1.6 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan -0.4 · Feb 0.7 · Mar 4.9 · Apr 9.7 · May 14.2 · Jun 17.6 · Jul 19.3 · Aug 18.9 · Sep 14.1 · Oct 9 · Nov 4 · Dec 0.6 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 48.3 · Feb 37.1 · Mar 43.6 · Apr 35.9 · May 60.2 · Jun 80 · Jul 76.9 · Aug 73.3 · Sep 49.9 · Oct 49 · Nov 48.1 · Dec 54.3 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 47.6 · Feb 80.1 · Mar 131.2 · Apr 186.5 · May 215.7 · Jun 225.6 · Jul 234.4 · Aug 221.2 · Sep 158.6 · Oct 97.5 · Nov 45 · Dec 37.8 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁸Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Cottbus ±0.5 °C. Elsewhere: Gorzów Wielkopolski (Poland) ±0.8 °C, Bytom (Poland) ±0.8 °C, Chorzów (Poland) ±0.8 °C, Ruda Śląska (Poland) ±0.8 °C, Sosnowiec (Poland) ±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 Saal?

The published population was 1,453 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	1,453 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²Official

International community in Saal

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	5,470	100.0%
Germany	4,690	85.7%
Romania	90	1.6%
Poland	70	1.3%
Syrian Arab Republic	67	1.2%
Turkey	61	1.1%
Czech Republic	45	0.8%
Kazakhstan	43	0.8%
Kosovo	41	0.7%
Russian Federation	37	0.7%
Serbia	29	0.5%

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Published group	People	Share
Hungary	22	0.4%
Italy	21	0.4%
Iraq	20	0.4%
Not stated	18	0.3%
Bulgaria	15	0.3%
Croatia	15	0.3%
Afghanistan	14	0.3%
Greece	13	0.2%
Austria	13	0.2%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	11	0.2%
Slovakia	9	0.2%
Nigeria	9	0.2%
France	8	0.1%
Ukraine	8	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	7	0.1%
Uzbekistan	6	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	5	0.1%
India	5	0.1%
China	5	0.1%
Switzerland	4	0.1%
Sierra Leone	4	0.1%
Tunisia	4	0.1%
United States	4	0.1%
Azerbaijan	4	0.1%
Israel	4	0.1%
Thailand	4	0.1%
Slovenia	3	0.1%
Latvia	3	0.1%
Algeria	3	0.1%
Eritrea	3	0.1%
Libya	3	0.1%
South Africa	3	0.1%
Senegal	3	0.1%
Viet Nam	3	0.1%
Lao People'S Democratic Republic	3	0.1%
Philippines	3	0.1%

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	5,470	100.0%
Germany	4,928	90.1%
Syrian Arab Republic	81	1.5%
Romania	63	1.2%
Turkey	54	1.0%
Kosovo	43	0.8%
Poland	35	0.6%
Hungary	31	0.6%
Iraq	26	0.5%
Italy	24	0.4%
Nigeria	19	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Afghanistan	15	0.3%
Croatia	14	0.3%
Ukraine	14	0.3%
Bulgaria	11	0.2%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	9	0.2%
Greece	9	0.2%
Czech Republic	9	0.2%
Sierra Leone	9	0.2%
Serbia	8	0.1%
Austria	6	0.1%
Uncertain	5	0.1%
Thailand	4	0.1%
China	4	0.1%
Latvia	3	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	3	0.1%
Russian Federation	3	0.1%
Eritrea	3	0.1%
Tunisia	3	0.1%
United States	3	0.1%
Viet Nam	3	0.1%
India	3	0.1%
Lao People'S Democratic Republic	3	0.1%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹⁰

Alternatives for people set on Saal

Nothing here reaches an argued comparison yet: no other published city shares enough metrics with Saal from the same source, period and grain. What is collected is below.

Alternative cities in Germany

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

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

Is Saal part of Regensburg?

Saal is in the published commuting zone of Regensburg; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub. Regensburg 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 Saal?

The published population was 1,453 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Saal?

Average net cold rent is 4.42 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 309 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis — Zensus 2022 Regionaltabelle Wohnungen (QMMIETE: durchschnittliche Nettokaltmiete je m²).

Is the air quality good in Saal?

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 Saal?

The unemployment rate is 9.2 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Saal?

The median gross salary is 4,000 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Saal a good place to live?

Saal 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 Saal part of Regensburg?

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

How many people born in Germany live in Saal?

The official country of birth distribution records 4,690 people (85.7%) 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 = {Saal, 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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Destatis — Zensus 2022 Regionaltabelle Wohnungen (QMMIETE: durchschnittliche Nettokaltmiete je m²) Destatis · destatis.de · checked 2026-09-18
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
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
World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI nodc.noaa.gov · checked 2026-08-05
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