Living in Vöhl

In Vöhl, rents across existing tenancies average €4.28 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 4.5% (2024).

The population of Vöhl totalled 5,460 at the end of 2024. For Vöhl, the regional median gross salary was €3,850 per month at the end of 2024. Vöhl recorded annual PM2.5 of 6 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2313 sources

Population5,460people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)3,850EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent4.28EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 26% belowOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate4.5%country median 5.1% — 12% belowOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime3,392incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise

PM2.5, annual mean6µg/m³31 Dec 2024Nearest stationOfficial source · European Environment Agency (EEA)

Cheaper rent than 98% of German cities that publish it, lower 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 Vöhl?

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Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Vöhl?

Average net cold rent is 4.28 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): 4.28 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 citiesVöhl 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 M¹³Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	4.28 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Vöhl a good place to live?

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Remote worker64%strong on work, weak on safety · range 54–74%

Skilled employee65%strong on work, weak on education · range 56–74%

Student65%strong on cost, weak on education · range 54–76%

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

Retirement60%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 47–73%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 257 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 4.28 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 Vöhl?

The unemployment rate is 4.5 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Vöhl is 4.5%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Vöhl 4.5%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	3,850 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	4.5 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Vöhl?

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

Left over each month€2,165of €2,521 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.	€2,521
Rent, 60 m²€4.28/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €257
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	€2,165

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Vöhl. 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 citiesVöhl 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	3,392 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁹Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Vöhl's nearest airport was KSF, 39 km away and offered 2 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	2 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁷Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	39 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	KSF	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official

Language courses and integration

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

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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 −0.9°C in January and 17.8°C in July.

Is the air quality good in Vöhl?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 6 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 (EEA)⁴

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

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

PM2.56WHO 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 Vöhl is 6.0 µg/m³. Of 477 cities with data, 164 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Vöhl 6.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	6 µg/m³	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency (EEA)⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 11.1 · Feb 15.05 · Mar 18.01 · Apr 24.52 · May 27.72 · Jun 32.9 · Jul 36.62 · Aug 35.95 · Sep 30.22 · Oct 25.28 · Nov 17.86 · Dec 12.11 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁶Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -17.91 · Feb -19.49 · Mar -13.44 · Apr -8.32 · May -3.1 · Jun 2.32 · Jul 5.52 · Aug 4.09 · Sep 0.91 · Oct -5.6 · Nov -8.06 · Dec -16.79 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁶Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by month	Jan -0.89 · Feb -0.22 · Mar 3.12 · Apr 7.75 · May 11.81 · Jun 15.48 · Jul 17.82 · Aug 17.53 · Sep 13.3 · Oct 8.47 · Nov 3.88 · Dec 0.35 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁶Official · coordinate grid

Population and city profile

How many people live in Vöhl?

The published population was 5,460 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	5,460 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²Official

International community in Vöhl

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	5,405	100.0%
Germany	4,781	88.5%
Poland	117	2.2%
Kazakhstan	106	2.0%
Russian Federation	78	1.4%
Czech Republic	38	0.7%
Netherlands	30	0.6%
Ukraine	29	0.5%
Romania	22	0.4%
Syrian Arab Republic	16	0.3%
Not stated	11	0.2%

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Published group	People	Share
Turkey	9	0.2%
Kyrgyzstan	9	0.2%
Thailand	9	0.2%
Kosovo	8	0.1%
United Kingdom	8	0.1%
Indonesia	8	0.1%
Italy	7	0.1%
Hungary	7	0.1%
Belgium	6	0.1%
France	6	0.1%
Lithuania	6	0.1%
Tunisia	6	0.1%
Philippines	6	0.1%
Austria	5	0.1%
Serbia	5	0.1%
United States	5	0.1%
Iraq	5	0.1%
Uzbekistan	5	0.1%
Greece	4	0.1%
Slovakia	4	0.1%
China	4	0.1%
Bulgaria	3	0.1%
Latvia	3	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	3	0.1%
Sweden	3	0.1%
Switzerland	3	0.1%
Spain	3	0.1%
Belarus	3	0.1%
Morocco	3	0.1%
Senegal	3	0.1%
Colombia	3	0.1%
Afghanistan	3	0.1%
India	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	5,405	100.0%
Germany	5,157	95.4%
Netherlands	28	0.5%
Ukraine	26	0.5%
Poland	23	0.4%
Romania	20	0.4%
Syrian Arab Republic	15	0.3%
Iraq	11	0.2%
Russian Federation	9	0.2%
Belgium	8	0.1%
Italy	8	0.1%

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Published group	People	Share
Thailand	7	0.1%
Lithuania	6	0.1%
United Kingdom	6	0.1%
Tunisia	6	0.1%
Indonesia	6	0.1%
Greece	5	0.1%
Hungary	5	0.1%
Austria	4	0.1%
Bulgaria	3	0.1%
France	3	0.1%
Montenegro	3	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	3	0.1%
Kosovo	3	0.1%
Portugal	3	0.1%
Switzerland	3	0.1%
Spain	3	0.1%
Turkey	3	0.1%
Morocco	3	0.1%
United States	3	0.1%
Afghanistan	3	0.1%
Kazakhstan	3	0.1%
Philippines	3	0.1%
China	3	0.1%
New Zealand	3	0.1%
Uncertain	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 Vöhl

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.

Heidenheim an der Brenz as a Vöhl 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: €7.33/m² Heidenheim an der Brenz vs €4.28/m² Vöhlno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €4,200 Heidenheim an der Brenz vs €3,850 Vöhl+9%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,709 Heidenheim an der Brenz vs 3,392 Vöhl+9%

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Alternative cities in Germany

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Yes — migrants receive medical care in Vöhl 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).

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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 Vöhl?

The published population was 5,460 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Vöhl?

Average net cold rent is 4.28 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 300 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Vöhl?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 6 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 (EEA).

What is the unemployment rate in Vöhl?

The unemployment rate is 4.5 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Vöhl?

The median gross salary is 3,850 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Vöhl a good place to live?

Vöhl 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 Vöhl?

The official country of birth distribution records 4,781 people (88.5%) 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 = {Vöhl, Germany: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
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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 (EEA) air.discomap.eea.europa.eu · checked 2026-08-05
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
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

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