Postal Codes

02979 Postcode

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Postleitzahl 02979 covers Elsterheide, Sachsen. A German Postleitzahl is five digits. The statistical offices publish by municipality rather than by postal code, so the figures below are for the Gemeinde this code falls in, found from the code’s own coordinates against official boundaries.

Municipality
Elsterheide
Population density
26.2 /km²
Unemployment rate
5.2%
Foreign nationals
3.5%
Average temperature
9.8 °C
District
Landkreis Bautzen
District population
296,506

Where 02979 is

Elsterheide, Sachsen — the outline of the municipality this postal code falls in, which is the area every figure on this page describes. It is not the boundary of the postal code itself: Germany does not publish those openly.

People
MunicipalityElsterheide
Population density26.2 /km²
In the district

Published by Kreis, not by municipality - the rates need a labour force or population estimate that does not exist below district level. They describe the whole district this postal code sits in.

DistrictLandkreis Bautzen
District population296,5062023-12-31
District area2,390.70 km²
Foreign nationals3.5%
Unemployment rate5.2%
Population change per 10,000 residents-12.6
Live births per 10,000 residents6.7
Deaths per 10,000 residents15.7
Births minus deaths per 10,000 residents-89.3
Net migration per 10,000 residents138.3
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Who is out of work

Shares of this municipality's unemployed, not rates. In a small municipality they are drawn from very few people.

Unemployed aged 15 to 244.2%
Unemployed aged 55 to 6445.8%
Long-term unemployed31.3%
Unemployed who are foreign nationals2.1%
Climate

1991-2020 averages from the nearest Deutscher Wetterdienst station, Elsterheide-Geierswalde, 3.1 km away.

Average temperature9.8 °C
Rainfall in a year623.9 mm
Sunshine hours in a year1764 h
Days of frost in a year84.2
Days below freezing all day17.7
Days above 25 °C57
Days above 30 °C15.4
Temperature · Rainfall
19.5°0.7°81JanMarMayJulSepNov
Against the national median
Population density26.2 /km²Unemployment rate5.2%Foreign nationals3.5%Average temperature9.8 °C

The tick is the national median.

Figures from the Regionalatlas of the federal and state statistical offices, Datenlizenz Deutschland 2.0. They describe the municipality this postal code falls in — Germany publishes by Gemeinde, not by Postleitzahl. Climate normals from the Deutscher Wetterdienst, 1991–2020. District population from Wikidata.

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