Living in Schwanau

In Schwanau, rents across existing tenancies average €6.28 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 3.9% (2024).

The population of Schwanau totalled 7,054 at the end of 2024. For Schwanau, the regional median gross salary was €4,000 per month at the end of 2024. Annual PM2.5 was 7 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2317 sources

Population7,054people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

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

Average net rent6.28EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 8% aboveOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate3.9%country median 5.1% — 24% belowOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime6,568incidents 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 64% of German cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 77% of German cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 95% of German cities that publish it.

Which Germany-wide rules apply when you move to Schwanau?

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 Schwanau?

Average net cold rent is 6.28 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): 6.28 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 citiesSchwanau 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 Mbps⁵Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	49.95 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Telekom MagentaMobil M¹²Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	6.28 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Schwanau a good place to live?

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Remote worker60%strong on work, weak on safety · range 50–70%

Skilled employee64%strong on work, weak on education · range 55–73%

Student57%strong on cost, weak on education · range 46–68%

Family60%strong on family, weak on education · range 49–71%

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

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 377 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 6.28 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 Schwanau?

The unemployment rate is 3.9 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Schwanau is 3.9%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Schwanau 3.9%

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	3.9 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Schwanau?

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

Left over each month€2,126of €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€6.28/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €377
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	€2,126

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Schwanau. 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 citiesSchwanau 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	6,568 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁸Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Schwanau's nearest airport was FKB, 52 km away and offered 18 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	18 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁶Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	52 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	FKB	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Schwanau. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

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Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF)

For eligible migrants.

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Climate and air quality

Schwanau's monthly mean temperatures were 2.4°C in January and 20.3°C in July. Schwanau's monthly precipitation totalled 45.9 mm in January and 88.3 mm in July. Schwanau's average monthly sunshine was 59.3 hours in January and 253.3 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Schwanau?

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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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

JFMAMJJASOND

Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

147

192

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253

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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 Schwanau 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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Schwanau 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 5.3 · Feb 7.5 · Mar 12 · Apr 16.8 · May 20.5 · Jun 24.3 · Jul 26.2 · Aug 26 · Sep 21.5 · Oct 16.2 · Nov 9.6 · Dec 6.1 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹³Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -0.8 · Feb -0.4 · Mar 1.9 · Apr 4.9 · May 9.2 · Jun 12.7 · Jul 14.4 · Aug 14 · Sep 9.9 · Oct 6.7 · Nov 2.7 · Dec 0.3 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 2.4 · Feb 3.5 · Mar 6.9 · Apr 10.9 · May 15 · Jun 18.6 · Jul 20.3 · Aug 19.8 · Sep 15.4 · Oct 11.1 · Nov 6.2 · Dec 3.3 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 45.9 · Feb 44.2 · Mar 51.7 · Apr 56.1 · May 91.1 · Jun 78.6 · Jul 88.3 · Aug 80.3 · Sep 58.2 · Oct 74.2 · Nov 60.4 · Dec 56 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 59.3 · Feb 89.8 · Mar 146.6 · Apr 192 · May 218.9 · Jun 240.2 · Jul 253.3 · Aug 235.2 · Sep 183.7 · Oct 108.5 · Nov 62.5 · Dec 46.6 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Rheinfelden (Baden) ±0.5 °C. Elsewhere: Mulhouse (France) ±0.1 °C, Reims (France) ±0.9 °C, Basel (Switzerland) ±0.5 °C, Saint-Étienne (France) ±0.8 °C, Nancy (France) ±0.5 °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 Schwanau?

The published population was 7,054 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	7,054 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹Official

International community in Schwanau

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	6,925	100.0%
Germany	5,903	85.2%
Kazakhstan	173	2.5%
Romania	129	1.9%
Russian Federation	86	1.2%
Poland	68	1.0%
Ukraine	65	0.9%
France	40	0.6%
Kosovo	40	0.6%
Syrian Arab Republic	26	0.4%
Bulgaria	23	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Canada	21	0.3%
Italy	20	0.3%
Moldova, Republic of	20	0.3%
Switzerland	18	0.3%
Hungary	18	0.3%
Iraq	17	0.2%
Turkey	16	0.2%
Nigeria	12	0.2%
Czech Republic	11	0.2%
Not stated	11	0.2%
Serbia	10	0.1%
Afghanistan	10	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	10	0.1%
Greece	8	0.1%
Colombia	8	0.1%
Croatia	7	0.1%
Slovenia	7	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	7	0.1%
Guinea	7	0.1%
Thailand	7	0.1%
Austria	5	0.1%
Slovakia	5	0.1%
United Kingdom	5	0.1%
United States	5	0.1%
Latvia	4	0.1%
Lithuania	4	0.1%
Gambia	4	0.1%
Pakistan	4	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	0.0%
Ireland	3	0.0%
Luxembourg	3	0.0%
Netherlands	3	0.0%
Norway	3	0.0%
Portugal	3	0.0%
Sweden	3	0.0%
Spain	3	0.0%
Belarus	3	0.0%
Algeria	3	0.0%
Eritrea	3	0.0%
Ethiopia	3	0.0%
Malawi	3	0.0%
South Africa	3	0.0%
Somalia	3	0.0%
Togo	3	0.0%
Egypt	3	0.0%
Argentina	3	0.0%
Paraguay	3	0.0%
Georgia	3	0.0%
Sri Lanka	3	0.0%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	3	0.0%
Japan	3	0.0%
Lebanon	3	0.0%
Philippines	3	0.0%
Singapore	3	0.0%
Uzbekistan	3	0.0%
China	3	0.0%
Australia	3	0.0%

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

Citizenship

Persons · 2022-05-15

Published group	People	Share
Total	6,925	100.0%
Germany	6,316	91.2%
Romania	124	1.8%
Kosovo	49	0.7%
Ukraine	44	0.6%
Poland	31	0.4%
Bulgaria	30	0.4%
France	30	0.4%
Italy	30	0.4%
Syrian Arab Republic	24	0.3%
Hungary	22	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Turkey	15	0.2%
Canada	15	0.2%
Iraq	14	0.2%
Nigeria	12	0.2%
Russian Federation	10	0.1%
Afghanistan	9	0.1%
Uncertain	9	0.1%
Portugal	8	0.1%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	7	0.1%
Switzerland	7	0.1%
Guinea	7	0.1%
Serbia	6	0.1%
United Kingdom	5	0.1%
Kazakhstan	5	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4	0.1%
Croatia	4	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	4	0.1%
Austria	4	0.1%
Gambia	4	0.1%
Colombia	4	0.1%
Pakistan	4	0.1%
Albania	3	0.0%
Lithuania	3	0.0%
Netherlands	3	0.0%
Slovakia	3	0.0%
Spain	3	0.0%
Eritrea	3	0.0%
Ethiopia	3	0.0%
Somalia	3	0.0%
Togo	3	0.0%
Egypt	3	0.0%
Argentina	3	0.0%
Mexico	3	0.0%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	3	0.0%
Japan	3	0.0%
Lebanon	3	0.0%
Philippines	3	0.0%
Thailand	3	0.0%
Uzbekistan	3	0.0%
China	3	0.0%
Australia	3	0.0%

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

Alternatives for people set on Schwanau

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 Schwanau 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.

Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 6,568 Schwanau−42%
Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €6.28/m² Schwanauno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €4,900 Böblingen vs €4,000 Schwanau+23%

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Alternative cities in Germany

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

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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 Schwanau?

The published population was 7,054 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Schwanau?

Average net cold rent is 6.28 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 440 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Schwanau?

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 Schwanau?

The unemployment rate is 3.9 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Schwanau?

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

Is Schwanau a good place to live?

Schwanau 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 Schwanau?

The official country of birth distribution records 5,903 people (85.2%) 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
European Environment Agency air.discomap.eea.europa.eu · checked 2026-08-05
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

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Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) destatis.de · checked 2026-08-05
Telekom MagentaMobil M telekom.de · checked 2026-09-15
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