Some demographic maps of Germany

[minionofmidas]

lifted from the GfK via the Spiegel website.

Percent of Households with a monthly net income below 1100 Euros:



Note: beyond some obvious areas, the map also shows your typical college cities as quite poor. It should be clear why (households rather than per capita, besides the obvious matter of students not earning much)

Percent of households with a monthly net income above 7500 Euros:



Note: The shades end at 5%, but the peak values reach up all the way to 15% around Munich and in the Taunus.

Percent of households with a head of household over 60 years of age:

[minionofmidas]

It is interesting that Göttingen area is very deep red on the map.

The college city factor clearly plays a role here. Göttingen's one of the largest German towns to be included in a district rather than be an independent city.

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Probably more like, relatively egalitarian. As in, no very rich people, no very poor people.

They actually had a graph to demonstrate that kind of effect...



This compares Volkswagen's labor camp the city of Wolfsburg, with a very egalitarian structure, though somewhat above-par average income, with a fairly random large rural district that also includes some Bremen suburbs, and that has both a lot more poor people and slightly fewer rich people but a very similar average income nonetheless.

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Probably, yeah. It's a very interesting corner of the world, but sadly one I don't know all that much about.

[muon2]

Percent of households with a head of household over 60 years of age:

I didn't expect to see the concentration of older residents in the number of cities on this map.

[Matt Damon™]

Do they have maps for muslim percentages?

[Tender Branson]

Do they have maps for muslim percentages?

I don't think so. The last Census in (Western) Germany was carried out in 1987 and even then religious affiliations were not surveyed. The next register-based Census in Germany will be held in 2011, but as far as I know they will not survey religious affiliations. So we only have estimates of the Muslim population in Germany and currently about 3.5 Mio. Muslims are living there.

But you can have a map of Muslims in Austria if you want, based on the 2001 Census:

[minionofmidas]

Do they have maps for muslim percentages?

I don't think so. The last Census in (Western) Germany was carried out in 1987 and even then religious affiliations were not surveyed.

They were, actually. I've seen Muslim percentages from the 1987 census for Frankfurt neighborhoods.

Obviously, that's hopelessly out of date.

[jimrtex]

Percent of households with a monthly net income above 7500 Euros:

Are the yellowly areas along the former border due to spillover from the west?  That is, workers from rural areas commuting to the west?

What about the areas south of the Czech Republic in Bavaria.  Mountainous?  Depressed mining areas?

What are the purple areas east of Hanover?  Suburbs.  Are they on the west side of the former border?

[Tender Branson]

Percent of households with a monthly net income above 7500 Euros:

Are the yellowly areas along the former border due to spillover from the west?  That is, workers from rural areas commuting to the west?

What about the areas south of the Czech Republic in Bavaria.  Mountainous?  Depressed mining areas?

What are the purple areas east of Hanover?  Suburbs.  Are they on the west side of the former border?

The county of Potsdam-Mittelmark - southwest of Berlin - is the county with the lowest unemployment in former East Germany. It benefits from commuters to Berlin and the good-paying jobs in the services industry as well as tourism.

The areas east of Hannover belongs to the Hannover Metro-Region (lots of commuting into Hannover). They belong to Lower Saxony.

The areas in Bavaria, along the Czech border, are mostly rural - with only few commuters to Munich or Passau or Linz - and lower paying jobs in the agriculture and wood industry. The unemployment rate there is actually very low - about 3-4%.

[jimrtex]

Percent of households with a monthly net income above 7500 Euros:

Are the yellowly areas along the former border due to spillover from the west?  That is, workers from rural areas commuting to the west?

What about the areas south of the Czech Republic in Bavaria.  Mountainous?  Depressed mining areas?

What are the purple areas east of Hanover?  Suburbs.  Are they on the west side of the former border?

The county of Potsdam-Mittelmark - southwest of Berlin - is the county with the lowest unemployment in former East Germany. It benefits from commuters to Berlin and the good-paying jobs in the services industry as well as tourism.

The areas east of Hannover belongs to the Hannover Metro-Region (lots of commuting into Hannover). They belong to Lower Saxony.

The areas in Bavaria, along the Czech border, are mostly rural - with only few commuters to Munich or Passau or Linz - and lower paying jobs in the agriculture and wood industry. The unemployment rate there is actually very low - about 3-4%.

The yellowy areas east of the former border that I was referring to are in Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, and Mecklenburg-Pomerania.  As you get further east you are in the beige areas, except around Berlin, and to a lesser extent around Dresden and Erfurt.

There are even a couple of maize colored districts right on the border, one in Thuringia, one west of Magdeburg,

[minionofmidas]

Commuting across the border certainly plays a role. Although in Thuringia, having always had a different social structure from the remainder of the east is also probably still relevant. It's outside the area of gentry estates with dependent ex-serf laborers that could be very easily converted into Kolkhozes (LPGs, the GDR called them) after 1949.
Although that would apply to much of western Saxony as well...

[minionofmidas]

Mother of all bumps!



Housing prices.

Darkest red shade around Munich is more than 65% above the national average, followed by 10-65% over, around average, 10-35% below, and more than 35% below.