42855 Postcode
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Postleitzahl 42855 covers Remscheid, Nordrhein-Westfalen. 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
- Remscheid
- Population density
- 1,526.2 /km²
- Unemployment rate
- 7.1%
- Foreign nationals
- 18.9%
- Average temperature
- 9.9 °C
- District
- Remscheid
- District population
- 113,828
Where 42855 is
Remscheid, Nordrhein-Westfalen — 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
| Municipality | Remscheid |
|---|---|
| Population density | 1,526.2 /km² |
| Foreign nationals | 18.9% |
| Population change per 10,000 residents | 173.1 |
| Live births per 10,000 residents | 8.9 |
| Deaths per 10,000 residents | 13.2 |
| Births minus deaths per 10,000 residents | -43 |
| Net migration per 10,000 residents | 113.8 |
Work
| Unemployment rate | 7.1% |
|---|
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.
| District | Remscheid |
|---|---|
| District population | 113,8282024-12-31 |
| District area | 74.52 km² |
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 24 | |
|---|---|
| Unemployed aged 55 to 64 | |
| Long-term unemployed | |
| Unemployed who are foreign nationals |
Climate
1991-2020 averages from the nearest Deutscher Wetterdienst station, Remscheid (Eschbachtal), 1.7 km away.
| Average temperature | 9.9 °C |
|---|---|
| Rainfall in a year | 1395 mm |
| Sunshine hours in a year | 1568.6 h |
| Days of frost in a year | 52.6 |
| Days below freezing all day | 5.7 |
| Days above 25 °C | 38.6 |
| Days above 30 °C | 9.3 |
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.