Living in Wendelstein

In Wendelstein, rents across existing tenancies average €7.30 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 2.4% (2024).

At the end of 2024, Wendelstein had a population of 16,446. Regional median gross salary figures for Wendelstein showed €4,100 per month at the end of 2024. Annual PM2.5 in the air was 8 µg/m³ at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2314 sources

Population16,446people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)4,100EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent7.3EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 26% aboveOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate2.4%country median 5.1% — 53% belowOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime2,307incidents 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 83% of German cities that publish it, lower unemployment than any other German city that publishes it and less recorded crime than any other German city that publishes it.

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

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 Wendelstein?

Average net cold rent is 7.3 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): 7.3 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 citiesWendelstein 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)	7.3 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Wendelstein a good place to live?

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Remote worker62%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 52–72%

Skilled employee68%strong on work, weak on education · range 59–77%

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

Family63%strong on family, weak on education · range 52–74%

Retirement52%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 39–65%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 438 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.3 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 Wendelstein?

The unemployment rate is 2.4 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Wendelstein is 2.4%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Wendelstein 2.4%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	4,100 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	2.4 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Wendelstein?

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

Left over each month€2,119of €2,655 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.	€2,655
Rent, 60 m²€7.30/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €438
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	€2,119

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Public employment service

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

Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesWendelstein 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	2,307 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁹Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Wendelstein's nearest airport was NUE, 17 km away and offered 32 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	32 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁷Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	17 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	NUE	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁸Official

Language courses and integration

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

Monthly mean temperature moved from −3.6°C in January to 10.4°C in July. Wendelstein's monthly precipitation totalled 123.3 mm in January and 185.5 mm in July. Wendelstein's average monthly sunshine was 120.6 hours in January and 186.2 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Wendelstein?

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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-1°-6°

-1°-7°

1°-5°

4°-2°

9°3°

12°6°

14°7°

14°8°

10°5°

8°2°

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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

123

144

179

118

130

183

186

177

127

135

140

JFMAMJJASOND

Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

121

117

134

154

179

168

186

194

153

154

106

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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

PM2.58WHO 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 Wendelstein 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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101

3–44–55–66–77–88–99–1010–1111–1212–1313–14

Wendelstein 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 -0.5 · Feb -1.3 · Mar 0.7 · Apr 4.1 · May 9.2 · Jun 12.2 · Jul 14 · Aug 14.3 · Sep 10.4 · Oct 7.8 · Nov 2.9 · Dec -0.2 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -6.2 · Feb -7 · Mar -5 · Apr -1.8 · May 2.9 · Jun 5.6 · Jul 7.4 · Aug 8.1 · Sep 4.7 · Oct 1.8 · Nov -2.7 · Dec -5.8 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan -3.6 · Feb -4.4 · Mar -2.4 · Apr 0.8 · May 5.7 · Jun 8.6 · Jul 10.4 · Aug 10.8 · Sep 7.2 · Oct 4.5 · Nov -0.1 · Dec -3.2 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 123.3 · Feb 143.5 · Mar 178.9 · Apr 117.7 · May 129.8 · Jun 183.2 · Jul 185.5 · Aug 176.5 · Sep 127.1 · Oct 92 · Nov 135 · Dec 139.6 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 120.6 · Feb 117.2 · Mar 133.9 · Apr 154.2 · May 179.1 · Jun 167.8 · Jul 186.2 · Aug 194 · Sep 152.8 · Oct 154 · Nov 106.4 · Dec 97.4 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Titisee-Neustadt ±1.3 °C. Elsewhere: Jönköping (Sweden) ±3.1 °C, Barrie (Canada) ±5.0 °C, Gatineau (Canada) ±5.8 °C, Chatham-Kent (Canada) ±6.0 °C, Gentofte (Denmark) ±6.1 °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 Wendelstein?

The published population was 16,446 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	16,446 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹²Official

International community in Wendelstein

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	16,247	100.0%
Germany	13,991	86.1%
Romania	359	2.2%
Poland	273	1.7%
Czech Republic	208	1.3%
Ukraine	149	0.9%
Turkey	147	0.9%
Russian Federation	122	0.8%
Kazakhstan	94	0.6%
Italy	61	0.4%
Syrian Arab Republic	55	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Austria	53	0.3%
Bulgaria	51	0.3%
Hungary	49	0.3%
Greece	43	0.3%
Moldova, Republic of	33	0.2%
United States	32	0.2%
Kosovo	29	0.2%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	26	0.2%
Croatia	25	0.2%
Spain	22	0.1%
Iraq	22	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	22	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	21	0.1%
Serbia	21	0.1%
Not stated	17	0.1%
Switzerland	16	0.1%
Slovenia	15	0.1%
France	12	0.1%
Latvia	12	0.1%
Brazil	12	0.1%
Thailand	12	0.1%
Uzbekistan	12	0.1%
China	12	0.1%
Slovakia	11	0.1%
Philippines	11	0.1%
Kyrgyzstan	10	0.1%
Lithuania	9	0.1%
United Kingdom	9	0.1%
Belarus	9	0.1%
Tajikistan	9	0.1%
Netherlands	8	0.0%
Ethiopia	8	0.0%
Armenia	8	0.0%
Viet Nam	8	0.0%
Belgium	7	0.0%
Azerbaijan	7	0.0%
Cuba	6	0.0%
India	5	0.0%
Morocco	4	0.0%
Somalia	4	0.0%
Chile	4	0.0%
Dominican Republic	4	0.0%
Colombia	4	0.0%
Mexico	4	0.0%
Albania	3	0.0%
Finland	3	0.0%
Ireland	3	0.0%
Montenegro	3	0.0%
Norway	3	0.0%
Sweden	3	0.0%
Nigeria	3	0.0%
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	3	0.0%
Madagascar	3	0.0%
Mozambique	3	0.0%
Burkina Faso	3	0.0%
South Africa	3	0.0%
Tanzania, United Republic of	3	0.0%
Haiti	3	0.0%
Afghanistan	3	0.0%
Georgia	3	0.0%
Israel	3	0.0%
Kuwait	3	0.0%
Saudi Arabia	3	0.0%
Australia	3	0.0%
Papua New Guinea	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	16,247	100.0%
Germany	14,965	92.1%
Romania	220	1.4%
Turkey	146	0.9%
Ukraine	126	0.8%
Italy	69	0.4%
Poland	67	0.4%
Syrian Arab Republic	61	0.4%
Greece	53	0.3%
Austria	53	0.3%
Bulgaria	44	0.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Hungary	41	0.3%
Croatia	37	0.2%
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of	26	0.2%
Kosovo	26	0.2%
Czech Republic	23	0.1%
Russian Federation	20	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	18	0.1%
Serbia	18	0.1%
United States	18	0.1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of	14	0.1%
Ethiopia	13	0.1%
Netherlands	12	0.1%
Iraq	12	0.1%
Latvia	11	0.1%
Spain	10	0.1%
Lithuania	8	0.0%
Slovenia	7	0.0%
Switzerland	7	0.0%
Moldova, Republic of	6	0.0%
Belarus	6	0.0%
Azerbaijan	6	0.0%
Viet Nam	6	0.0%
India	6	0.0%
Kazakhstan	6	0.0%
Philippines	6	0.0%
Thailand	6	0.0%
Belgium	5	0.0%
France	5	0.0%
Montenegro	5	0.0%
Somalia	5	0.0%
Brazil	5	0.0%
China	5	0.0%
Slovakia	4	0.0%
United Kingdom	4	0.0%
Albania	3	0.0%
Norway	3	0.0%
Madagascar	3	0.0%
Mozambique	3	0.0%
Tunisia	3	0.0%
Cuba	3	0.0%
Mexico	3	0.0%
Armenia	3	0.0%
Israel	3	0.0%
Japan	3	0.0%
Pakistan	3	0.0%
Tajikistan	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

Alternatives for people set on Wendelstein

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

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

Is Wendelstein part of Nuremberg?

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

Relationship type: Commuting Zone Of. Source⁶

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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 Wendelstein?

The published population was 16,446 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Wendelstein?

Average net cold rent is 7.3 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 511 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Wendelstein?

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 Wendelstein?

The unemployment rate is 2.4 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Wendelstein?

The median gross salary is 4,100 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Wendelstein a good place to live?

Wendelstein 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 Wendelstein part of Nuremberg?

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

How many people born in Germany live in Wendelstein?

The official country of birth distribution records 13,991 people (86.1%) 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 = {Wendelstein, Germany: population, rent, salary, jobs, safety},
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  year = {2026},
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}

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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
oecd.org place coordinates oecd.org · checked 2026-08-28
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 ncei.noaa.gov · checked 2026-08-05

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