Living in Zeithain

In Zeithain, rents across existing tenancies average €4.69 per m² a month (2022) and unemployment is 6% (2024).

The population of Zeithain totalled 5,565 at the end of 2024. At the end of 2024, the regional median gross salary stood at €3,400 per month. The annual PM2.5 concentration measured 10 µg/m³ at the end of 2020.

Last checked 2026-09-2326 sources

Population5,565people31 Dec 2024Official source · Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)

Median gross salary (region)3,400EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)

Average net rent4.69EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81 — 19% belowOfficial source · Destatis

Unemployment rate6%country median 5.1% — 18% aboveOfficial source · Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik

Recorded crime5,088incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025District figureOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise

PM2.5, annual mean10µg/m³31 Dec 2020Nearest stationOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Cheaper rent than 89% of German cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 70% of German cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 98% of German cities that publish it.

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

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 Zeithain?

Average net cold rent is 4.69 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): 4.69 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 citiesZeithain 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)	4.69 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €5.81	15 May 2022	Destatis³Official

Is Zeithain a good place to live?

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Remote worker59%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 49–69%

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

Student64%strong on cost, weak on education · range 53–75%

Family58%strong on family, weak on education · range 47–69%

Retirement61%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 48–74%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 281 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 4.69 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 Zeithain?

The unemployment rate is 6 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²

Unemployment across cities in GermanyUnemployment in Zeithain is 6.0%. Of 3,080 cities with data, 1,332 have unemployment of 4 to under 6%.

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Zeithain 6.0%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	3,400 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)¹Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	6 %country median 5.1%	31 Dec 2024	Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik²Official

What does a salary buy in Zeithain?

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

Left over each month€1,895of €2,275 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.	€2,275
Rent, 60 m²€4.69/m² · official · Destatis · 2022-05-15	− €281
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	€1,895

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

Public employment service

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

Safety

Recorded crime across major citiesZeithain 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	5,088 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, T01 Grundtabelle – Fälle mit Häufigkeitszahl, Kreise⁸Official · district-level figure

Mobility and administration

Zeithain's nearest airport was DRS, 37 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	37 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	DRS	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Zeithain. 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 0.9°C in January to 19.4°C in July. Monthly precipitation was 43.7 mm in January and 74.4 mm in July. Zeithain's average monthly sunshine was 60.5 hours in January and 233.2 hours in July.

Is the air quality good in Zeithain?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 10 µg/m³ (2020) — 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

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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

PM2.510WHO 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 Zeithain is 10.0 µg/m³. Of 477 cities with data, 164 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Zeithain 10.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	10 µg/m³	31 Dec 2020	European Environment Agency⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average daytime high by month	Jan 3.7 · Feb 5.1 · Mar 9.2 · Apr 15 · May 19.5 · Jun 22.9 · Jul 25.3 · Aug 25.1 · Sep 20 · Oct 14.4 · Nov 8.2 · Dec 4.7 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹³Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -2 · Feb -1.6 · Mar 0.9 · Apr 4 · May 7.9 · Jun 11.4 · Jul 13.5 · Aug 13.3 · Sep 9.7 · Oct 5.8 · Nov 2 · Dec -0.6 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 0.9 · Feb 1.7 · Mar 4.9 · Apr 9.5 · May 13.9 · Jun 17.2 · Jul 19.4 · Aug 19 · Sep 14.6 · Oct 9.8 · Nov 5.1 · Dec 2.1 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 43.7 · Feb 32.2 · Mar 42.3 · Apr 32 · May 52.8 · Jun 53.4 · Jul 74.4 · Aug 63.9 · Sep 49.2 · Oct 43 · Nov 47.4 · Dec 44.3 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 60.5 · Feb 81.9 · Mar 126.8 · Apr 186.7 · May 224.4 · Jun 225.3 · Jul 233.2 · Aug 214.5 · Sep 160.2 · Oct 116.4 · Nov 67 · Dec 53.8 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Germany: Hoyerswerda ±0.3 °C. Elsewhere: Gorzów Wielkopolski (Poland) ±0.6 °C, Gentofte (Denmark) ±1.2 °C, Lyngby-Taarbæk (Denmark) ±1.2 °C, Rudersdal (Denmark) ±1.2 °C, Reims (France) ±1.2 °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 Zeithain?

The published population was 5,565 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Population	5,565 people	31 Dec 2024	Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)¹¹Official

International community in Zeithain

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	5,472	100.0%
Germany	5,147	94.1%
Poland	71	1.3%
Romania	55	1.0%
Syrian Arab Republic	34	0.6%
Ukraine	23	0.4%
Czech Republic	22	0.4%
Not stated	18	0.3%
Hungary	13	0.2%
Greece	11	0.2%
Russian Federation	9	0.2%

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Published group	People	Share
Bosnia and Herzegovina	7	0.1%
Serbia	6	0.1%
Tunisia	6	0.1%
Lebanon	6	0.1%
Slovakia	4	0.1%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	4	0.1%
Belgium	3	0.1%
Bulgaria	3	0.1%
Italy	3	0.1%
Moldova, Republic of	3	0.1%
Kosovo	3	0.1%
Austria	3	0.1%
Switzerland	3	0.1%
Belarus	3	0.1%
Egypt	3	0.1%
Cuba	3	0.1%
Peru	3	0.1%
Azerbaijan	3	0.1%
Kazakhstan	3	0.1%
Pakistan	3	0.1%

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	5,472	100.0%
Germany	5,232	95.6%
Romania	59	1.1%
Syrian Arab Republic	39	0.7%
Poland	36	0.7%
Ukraine	19	0.3%
Hungary	12	0.2%
Pakistan	9	0.2%
Czech Republic	8	0.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	6	0.1%
Greece	6	0.1%

Show 10 more groups

Published group	People	Share
Serbia	6	0.1%
Tunisia	6	0.1%
Bulgaria	5	0.1%
Slovakia	4	0.1%
Russian Federation	4	0.1%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	4	0.1%
Austria	3	0.1%
Belarus	3	0.1%
Egypt	3	0.1%
Lebanon	3	0.1%

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

Alternatives for people set on Zeithain

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 Zeithain alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 428 km, better on 2 of 2 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Median gross pay, region: €4,900 Böblingen vs €3,400 Zeithain+44%
Rent: €9.69/m² Böblingen vs €4.69/m² Zeithainno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,793 Böblingen vs 5,088 Zeithain−25%

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Cities near Zeithain

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Riesa 4.8 km away

Rent: 5.14 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Strehla 8.9 km away

Rent: 5.22 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Gröditz 11.2 km away

Rent: 4.79 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Großenhain 13.6 km away

Rent: 5.08 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Mühlberg/Elbe 14.4 km away

Rent: 4.22 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Lommatzsch 15.2 km away

Rent: 4.57 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Oschatz 17.3 km away

Rent: 5.1 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Elsterwerda 18.3 km away

Rent: 5 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2022-05-15

Alternative cities in Germany

Other cities in Germany to compare with Zeithain, nearest in population first.

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Fischbachau5,562 residents Kaltennordheim5,562 residents Grünhain-Beierfeld5,569 residents Großpösna5,570 residents Leutershausen5,570 residents Niedenstein5,570 residents

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

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

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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 Zeithain?

The published population was 5,565 people in 2024. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis).

How much does it cost to rent in Zeithain?

Average net cold rent is 4.69 EUR/m² per month (May 2022), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 328 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Destatis.

Is the air quality good in Zeithain?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 10 µg/m³ (2020) — 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 Zeithain?

The unemployment rate is 6 % (2024). Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Statistik.

What is the typical salary around Zeithain?

The median gross salary is 3,400 EUR/month. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA).

Is Zeithain a good place to live?

Zeithain 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.

Which cities are near Zeithain?

Riesa, Strehla, Gröditz, Großenhain, Mühlberg/Elbe are near Zeithain. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people born in Germany live in Zeithain?

The official country of birth distribution records 5,147 people (94.1%) 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 = {Zeithain, 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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MagentaZuhause L 100 Mbps telekom.de · checked 2026-09-15
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OurAirports davidmegginson.github.io · checked 2026-08-03
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