Living in Schönkirchen

In Schönkirchen, rents across existing tenancies average €7.63 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 4.4% (2024).

At the end of 2024, Schönkirchen had a population of 6,794. The regional median gross salary was €4,000 per month at the end of 2024. Annual PM2.5 in the air was 8 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2318 sources

Population6,794people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

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

Average net rent7.63EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 31% aboveOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate4.4%country median 5.1% — 14% belowOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime3,507incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise

PM2.5, annual mean8µg/m³31 Dec 2024Nearest stationOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Pricier rent than 87% of German cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 65% 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 Schönkirchen?

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 Schönkirchen?

Average net cold rent is 7.63 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): 7.63 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 citiesSchönkirchen 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)	7.63 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Schönkirchen a good place to live?

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Remote worker55%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 45–65%

Skilled employee60%strong on work, weak on education · range 51–69%

Student54%strong on cost, weak on education · range 43–65%

Family56%strong on family, weak on education · range 45–67%

Retirement53%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 40–66%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 458 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.63 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 Schönkirchen?

The unemployment rate is 4.4 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Schönkirchen is 4.4%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Schönkirchen 4.4%

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	4.4 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Schönkirchen?

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

Left over each month€2,045of €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€7.63/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €458
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	€2,045

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

Public employment service

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

Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesSchönkirchen 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	3,507 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁹Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Schönkirchen's nearest airport was LBC, 67 km away and offered 4 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	4 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁷Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	67 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	LBC	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official

Language courses and integration

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

Schönkirchen's monthly mean temperatures were 2°C in January and 17.7°C in July. Schönkirchen's monthly precipitation totalled 66.8 mm in January and 83.8 mm in July. Schönkirchen's average monthly sunshine was 40.2 hours in January and 242.2 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Schönkirchen?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 8 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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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

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Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

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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

PM2.58WHO 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 Schönkirchen is 8.0 µg/m³. Of 477 cities with data, 164 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Schönkirchen 8.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	8 µg/m³	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average daytime high by month	Jan 4 · Feb 4.6 · Mar 8 · Apr 12.7 · May 16.5 · Jun 19.8 · Jul 22.2 · Aug 22.1 · Sep 18.2 · Oct 13.1 · Nov 8 · Dec 5 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -0.4 · Feb -0.4 · Mar 1.4 · Apr 3.9 · May 7.2 · Jun 10.5 · Jul 13 · Aug 13.1 · Sep 10.6 · Oct 6.9 · Nov 3.4 · Dec 0.9 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 2 · Feb 2.3 · Mar 4.4 · Apr 8.1 · May 12 · Jun 15.3 · Jul 17.7 · Aug 17.6 · Sep 14.2 · Oct 10 · Nov 5.8 · Dec 3 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 66.8 · Feb 49.7 · Mar 49.9 · Apr 39.7 · May 51.4 · Jun 65.1 · Jul 83.8 · Aug 77.3 · Sep 65.6 · Oct 72.1 · Nov 63.7 · Dec 70.5 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 40.2 · Feb 60.5 · Mar 115.4 · Apr 190.3 · May 243.7 · Jun 228.3 · Jul 242.2 · Aug 216.7 · Sep 155.1 · Oct 106.2 · Nov 50.3 · Dec 31.4 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁸Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Heide ±0.2 °C. Elsewhere: Gentofte (Denmark) ±0.4 °C, Lyngby-Taarbæk (Denmark) ±0.4 °C, Rudersdal (Denmark) ±0.4 °C, Koszalin (Poland) ±0.7 °C, Reims (France) ±1.7 °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 Schönkirchen?

The published population was 6,794 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	6,794 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²Official

International community in Schönkirchen

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	6,697	100.0%
Germany	6,016	89.8%
Poland	109	1.6%
Turkey	75	1.1%
Russian Federation	61	0.9%
Syrian Arab Republic	57	0.9%
Kazakhstan	49	0.7%
Afghanistan	30	0.4%
Not stated	30	0.4%
Iraq	20	0.3%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	18	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Kosovo	15	0.2%
Azerbaijan	15	0.2%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	14	0.2%
Ukraine	13	0.2%
Serbia	10	0.1%
United Kingdom	9	0.1%
Spain	8	0.1%
Lithuania	7	0.1%
Eritrea	7	0.1%
Austria	6	0.1%
Romania	6	0.1%
United States	6	0.1%
Thailand	6	0.1%
Italy	5	0.1%
Brazil	5	0.1%
Albania	4	0.1%
France	4	0.1%
Croatia	4	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	4	0.1%
Sweden	4	0.1%
Czech Republic	4	0.1%
Morocco	4	0.1%
Viet Nam	4	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	4	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	0.0%
Belgium	3	0.0%
Bulgaria	3	0.0%
Denmark	3	0.0%
Finland	3	0.0%
Ireland	3	0.0%
Netherlands	3	0.0%
Norway	3	0.0%
Somalia	3	0.0%
Togo	3	0.0%
Egypt	3	0.0%
Argentina	3	0.0%
Ecuador	3	0.0%
El Salvador	3	0.0%
Colombia	3	0.0%
Paraguay	3	0.0%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	3	0.0%
Yemen	3	0.0%
Armenia	3	0.0%
Sri Lanka	3	0.0%
India	3	0.0%
Japan	3	0.0%
Kuwait	3	0.0%
Korea, Republic of	3	0.0%
Uzbekistan	3	0.0%
China	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	6,697	100.0%
Germany	6,351	94.8%
Syrian Arab Republic	63	0.9%
Turkey	53	0.8%
Afghanistan	36	0.5%
Poland	26	0.4%
Iraq	19	0.3%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	16	0.2%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	13	0.2%
Russian Federation	12	0.2%
Ukraine	10	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Italy	8	0.1%
Serbia	8	0.1%
Eritrea	8	0.1%
Armenia	6	0.1%
Spain	5	0.1%
Nigeria	5	0.1%
Azerbaijan	5	0.1%
Thailand	5	0.1%
France	4	0.1%
Croatia	4	0.1%
Lithuania	4	0.1%
Bulgaria	3	0.0%
Denmark	3	0.0%
Netherlands	3	0.0%
Kosovo	3	0.0%
Romania	3	0.0%
United Kingdom	3	0.0%
Ethiopia	3	0.0%
Somalia	3	0.0%
Egypt	3	0.0%
Brazil	3	0.0%
Colombia	3	0.0%
Paraguay	3	0.0%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	3	0.0%
Yemen	3	0.0%
Japan	3	0.0%
Korea, Republic of	3	0.0%
Uncertain	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 Schönkirchen

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 Schönkirchen 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.

Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €7.63/m² Schönkirchenno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €4,900 Böblingen vs €4,000 Schönkirchen+23%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 3,507 Schönkirchen+8%

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Alternative cities in Germany

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Eibenstock6,795 residents Erndtebrück6,792 residents Altenkirchen6,797 residents Dinkelscherben6,797 residents Eberdingen6,800 residents Böhlen6,787 residents

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

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

Is Schönkirchen part of Kiel?

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

The published population was 6,794 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Schönkirchen?

Average net cold rent is 7.63 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 534 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Schönkirchen?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 8 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 Schönkirchen?

The unemployment rate is 4.4 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Schönkirchen?

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

Is Schönkirchen a good place to live?

Schönkirchen 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 Schönkirchen part of Kiel?

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

How many people born in Germany live in Schönkirchen?

The official country of birth distribution records 6,016 people (89.8%) 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 = {Schönkirchen, Germany: population, rent, salary, jobs},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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}

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Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) statistik.arbeitsagentur.de · checked 2026-08-06
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Destatis destatis.de · checked 2026-08-10
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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