Little living space for many people
Many people in the Rhine-Main area have to make do with relatively little living space. A current study shows that not only in Frankfurt was the area per capita particularly low in 2020 compared to the rest of Germany.
Frankfurt has a space problem – with an area of 37.4 square meters per capita in 2020, the Main metropolis is number 1 among the seven largest cities in Germany.
But other cities in the Rhine-Main area also have too little living space, as a current study by the real estate service provider Empirica Regio shows. In Dietzenbach (37.5 square meters), Rüsselsheim (37.3), Offenbach (35) and Raunheim (34.3), the residents had little space on average.
For the analysis, Empirica Regio examined all German municipalities with more than 400 inhabitants – according to the information from Wednesday, almost 9,000 municipalities and 107 independent cities were recorded. The per capita living space between 2015 and 2020 increased most in regional regions with a plus of 3.7 percent, it said. The lowest growth was in large cities (plus 1.5 percent).
Frankfurt: Cities from the Rhine-Main area are at the lower end
Empirica Regio put the Germany-wide average value for 2020 at just under 46 square meters per capita. Figures for 2021 are not yet available. It is striking that many cities from the Rhine-Main area are at the bottom of the list, according to Empirica Regio. In Wiesbaden (41.4 square meters per capita) and Darmstadt (39.2) the situation is more relaxed.
According to the analysis, the living space in the country was the highest in the country at 51.4 square meters per capita. In cities, it was significantly lower at 40.9 square meters, with smaller towns and suburbs in between at 47 square meters.