Postal Codes

99842 Postcode

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Postleitzahl 99842 covers Ruhla, Thüringen. 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
Ruhla
Population density
134.7 /km²
Unemployment rate
5%
Foreign nationals
6.3%
Average temperature
5.7 °C
District
Wartburgkreis
District population
158,900

Where 99842 is

Ruhla, Thüringen — 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
MunicipalityRuhla
Population density134.7 /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.

DistrictWartburgkreis
District population158,9002021-12-31
District area1,307.43 km²
Foreign nationals6.3%
Unemployment rate5%
Population change per 10,000 residents-149.4
Live births per 10,000 residents7
Deaths per 10,000 residents15.3
Births minus deaths per 10,000 residents-83
Net migration per 10,000 residents125.9
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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 247.6%
Unemployed aged 55 to 6436.1%
Long-term unemployed42.4%
Unemployed who are foreign nationals5.1%
Climate

1991-2020 averages from the nearest Deutscher Wetterdienst station, Ruhla, 0.3 km away.

Average temperature5.7 °C
Rainfall in a year884.1 mm
Sunshine hours in a year1611 h
Days of frost in a year115
Days below freezing all day49.3
Days above 25 °C13.2
Days above 30 °C1.2
Temperature · Rainfall
14.5°-2.7°100JanMarMayJulSepNov
Against the national median
Population density134.7 /km²Unemployment rate5%Foreign nationals6.3%Average temperature5.7 °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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