Relocating to Offenbach from another country? This is what a newcomer is moving into, on the official figures: income, jobs, housing, connectivity, taxes and who lives here, all drawn from German Regionalstatistik, the Zensus 2022 and the Breitbandatlas.
Education colours Offenbach, with a young, Abitur-heavy population. Building land is the headline: the 6th priciest for building land of Hesse’s 26 districts.
How Offenbach compares
Offenbach measured against all 400 German districts (Kreise); building-land prices are recorded for 394 of them. The longer the bar, the higher the percentile; hover for the figure behind it.
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Who lives in Offenbach
Age profile and household make-up from the 2022 census.
Age distribution
25.1% of residents are aged 25 to 45, the prime working-age band, with 14.8% under 15 and 21.9% at 65 or older. The rest of the 2022 census picture: 31.4% of residents have a migration history (19.5% are foreign nationals); 40.5% of households are single-person; 38.6% of adults hold an Abitur / university-entrance qualification. As a newcomer from abroad you would blend straight in; this is a properly international place. Local schools serve 40,493 pupils. Daycare places get easier to find as children get older: about 1.4% of under-1s, 33.2% of 1 to 2 year olds and 54.4% of 2 to 3 year olds have a place, so finding care for an infant is harder than for a toddler.
Cost of living and housing
18% above DE avg
4% above DE avg
The average net cold rent (Nettokaltmiete) is €8.58 per m², about 18% above the German average of €7.28. It reflects existing tenancies from the 2022 census; expect to pay above it on a new contract. Disposable income per resident runs to €29,536 (120th highest of 400 German districts, 8th in Hesse). That sits roughly 4% above the national average of €28,453. It is a headline figure, not adjusted for local prices, so read it next to the rent above. Building plots go for around €546 per m², the 30th highest of 394 districts with a recorded price, the bare ground before a brick is laid and the floor under every local rent. The median German district is around €132 per m². At €8.58/m², a 70 m² flat works out to about €601 a month in cold rent (existing-tenancy 2022 level; a new lease costs more). Measured against local incomes, it sits 21st most affordable in Hesse. For scale, that is about 81% of the rent in Frankfurt (€10.58/m²).
The local housing market
Here is the shape of the market, from the 2022 census: 53.7% of homes are rented rather than owner-occupied; the vacancy rate is 3.2% (a fairly balanced market); the average home measures 96 m². The stock is 174,111 homes in 71,894 buildings, about 2.4 per building, so this is mostly houses rather than flats. In the latest year 158 new dwellings were completed against 127 permits, a gauge of whether new supply keeps up with demand.
Jobs and the economy
14% below DE avg
Jobs and people are in rough balance in Offenbach: 137,687 jobs at local workplaces in 2025, 385 per 1,000 residents. Those jobs are spread across 18,916 registered businesses (2024), a rough measure of how varied the local employers are. Unemployment stands at 5.4% in 2025 (German average 6.3%), roughly one in 19 of the local workforce.
The median full-time worker here earns €4,300 a month gross (9% above the German median of €3,950), before tax and social contributions. This is a different measure from the disposable income per resident above: it is what people in work earn, not what each resident has left to spend. Source: Bundesagentur für Arbeit, 2024.
Internet & connectivity
How many households can reach each speed (Breitbandatlas, end of 2025). Gigabit can arrive over fibre or upgraded cable; true fibre (FTTB/H) is broken out separately.
98% of households can get a fixed line of at least 100 Mbit/s, and 89% can reach gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s) speeds (Breitbandatlas, end of 2025). Of that, 49% of households can get true fibre to the building (FTTB/H); the rest of the gigabit coverage runs over upgraded cable. On mobile, 5G reaches 100% of households. If you are keeping a job abroad, a home office works at most addresses here.
Where Offenbach is in Germany
Recorded crime
The local rate of recorded offences, per 100,000 residents.
In 2025 the police logged 4,194 offences per 100,000 residents here (the Häufigkeitszahl), 18% below the German district median of about 5,096. These are police-recorded cases, not convictions; transit hubs, motorways and busy centres lift the figure because much of it involves visitors rather than locals. It is not a verdict on how safe the area is to live in. Source: Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik, BKA 2025.
Local taxes
Unless you start a business, local tax is a footnote here. The trade-tax multiplier (Gewerbesteuer) is 367%, but it only touches you if you register a business: the tax office sets a base amount, the municipality multiplies it. The property tax (Grundsteuer B) reaches you as a tenant through the service charges (Nebenkosten), and it was reset in the 2025 reform, so there is no settled rate to quote yet.
Moving in and out
growing
The headcount in Offenbach is rising. In 2024, 24,071 moved in and 22,057 moved out, a net of +2,014. Arrivals outnumber departures, so the rental market stays tight. It granted 1,960 citizenships in 2024, a naturalisation rate of 2.6%. Some 14,850 people here hold or are seeking protection status, about 41.5 per 1,000 residents, the combined asylum, refugee and humanitarian total, with Ukrainians counted here since 2022. Voter turnout last time around was 83.1%.
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FAQ: relocating to Offenbach
Is Offenbach expensive to live in?
The average net cold rent is €8.58 per m² (18% above the €7.28 German average), from existing 2022 tenancies, so a new lease runs higher. Disposable income per resident is €29,536 (120th highest of 400 German districts, 8th in Hesse). That sits roughly 4% above the national average of €28,453. It is not adjusted for local prices, so treat it as a headline only.
Is it easy to find a job in Offenbach?
Offenbach has 137,687 jobs (385 per 1,000 residents, including commuters) and 5.4% unemployment, roughly one in 19 of the local workforce, against 6.3% across Germany.
How well does Offenbach suit families?
What the data shows: 14.8% of residents are under 15, local schools serve 40,493 pupils, daycare reaches about 54.4% of two-to-three-year-olds.
Is Offenbach urban or countryside?
With about 1,005 residents per km², Offenbach is firmly on the urban side.
Is Offenbach gaining or losing people?
Offenbach is gaining residents: over a year 24,071 people moved in and 22,057 moved out, a net of +2,014, about 0.6% of the population in a year.
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Source: Regionaldatenbank Deutschland (regionalstatistik.de), Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder; supplementary data via Destatis GENESIS-Online. Housing, household, education and migration figures from the Zensus 2022. Broadband coverage from the Breitbandatlas (© MIG, BMDV). Recorded crime from the Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik (BKA, 2025). Median full-time gross wages from the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (2024). Years per field: population 2024, jobs and unemployment 2025, income 2023, businesses, building activity and land 2024, naturalisations 2024, childcare 2025; rent, vacancy, ownership, dwelling size, single-person households, education and migration 2022 (Zensus); broadband end of 2025 (Breitbandatlas). · How we built this ›