The cheapest cities in Germany

Chemnitz is the city with the lowest rents. Following suit on ranks two and three are Dresden and Jena - two more East German cities. This is one of the results of the 19. social survey of the German student union.

A student in Chemnitz has to pay approximately 210 Euros for rent and running costs. Very striking: Among the Top 10 of the cheapest cities in Germany, eight of them are in East Germany - except for Oldenburg and Bamberg.

In contrast to that the biggest cities are with Berlin as the only exeption - the most expensive ones. Up front is Munich, where you have to pay a whopping 138 Euros more every month for a room of approx. the same size as in Chemnitz. Almost the same amount as in the Bavarian capital is charged in Cologne, Hamburg and Frankfurt/Main. 

 

Overview of alle 54 cities evaluated:

RanK	Destination*	Costs for rent incl. running costs	Rank	Destination	Costs for rent incl. running costs
1	Chemnitz	210	28	Marburg	279
2	Dresden	223	29	Augsburg	280
3	Jena	233	30	Kiel	280
4	Magdeburg	236	31	Mannheim	281
5	Leipzig	236	32	Münster	281
6	Oldenburg	242	33	Saarbrücken	282
7	Halle (Saale)	243	34	Hannover	285
8	Erfurt	249	35	Tübingen	288
9	Bamberg	250	36	Lüneburg	288
10	Greifswald	252	37	Duisburg	289
11	Passau	254	38	Aachen	293
12	Bochum	258	39	Freiburg	294
13	Osnabrück	259	40	Wuppertal	297
14	Paderborn	259	41	Bonn	298
15	Kassel	260	42	Ulm	298
16	Göttingen	261	43	Berlin	298
17	Gießen	266	44	Bremen	300
18	Bielefeld	267	45	Heidelberg	301
19	Würzburg	268	46	Konstanz	305
20	Erlangen-Nürnberg	272	47	Stuttgart	306
21	Braunschweig	273	48	Mainz	308
22	Dortmund	274	49	Darmstadt	321
23	Potsdam	274	50	Frankfurt/Main	328
24	Regensburg	275	51	Düsseldorf	330
25	Karlsruhe	276	52	Köln	333
26	Trier	278	53	Hamburg	345
27	Rostock	279	54	München	348

* Only those destinations were considered, which were based on data of at least 50 students.