Fastest growing districts in Germany

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The 50 districts in Germany with the highest population change per 10,000 residents, and the 50 with the lowest, out of 400 with a published figure.

Fastest growing districts

	District	State	Postal code	Population change per 10,000 residents
1	Pforzheim	Baden-Württemberg	75172	630.3
2	Saarlouis	Saarland	66793	592.3
3	Merzig-Wadern	Saarland	66693	548.1
4	Flensburg	Schleswig-Holstein	24937	535.4
5	Bremerhaven	Bremen	27574	479.3
6	Delmenhorst	Lower Saxony	27751	449.3
7	Städteregion Aachen	North Rhine-Westphalia	52078	410.3
8	Solingen	North Rhine-Westphalia	42657	381.6
9	Düren	North Rhine-Westphalia	52391	360.7
10	Heilbronn	Baden-Württemberg	74074	335.7
11	Grafschaft Bentheim	Lower Saxony	49824	334.2
12	Würzburg	Bavaria	97074	331.9
13	Gera	Thuringia	07546	330.8
14	Wolfsburg	Lower Saxony	38439	318.4
15	Minden-Lübbecke	North Rhine-Westphalia	32427	296.5
16	Bad Kreuznach	Rhineland-Palatinate	55590	280.9
17	Gotha	Thuringia	99880	255.8
18	Erfurt	Thuringia	99091	254.5
19	Nürnberg	Bavaria	90353	252.5
20	Lörrach	Baden-Württemberg	79597	249.0
21	Rems-Murr-Kreis	Baden-Württemberg	71546	247.2
22	Saarpfalz-Kreis	Saarland	66440	245.7
23	Mönchengladbach	North Rhine-Westphalia	41169	239.5
24	Bremen	Bremen	28219	237.8
25	Oldenburg (Oldb)	Lower Saxony	26114	234.4
26	Magdeburg	Saxony-Anhalt	39104	231.6
27	Euskirchen	North Rhine-Westphalia	53919	228.8
28	Mühldorf a.Inn	Bavaria	84478	227.6
29	Hof	Bavaria	95028	226.1
30	Oberhausen	North Rhine-Westphalia	46117	211.9
31	Dortmund	North Rhine-Westphalia	44147	210.0
32	St. Wendel	Saarland	66636	209.5
33	Harburg	Lower Saxony	21279	207.5
34	Wiesbaden	Hesse	65182	206.4
35	Neunkirchen	Saarland	66564	203.1
36	Leverkusen	North Rhine-Westphalia	51371	200.0
37	Schwerin	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	19055	194.9
38	Neuwied	Rhineland-Palatinate	56316	188.7
39	Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis	Rhineland-Palatinate	55496	188.3
40	Freudenstadt	Baden-Württemberg	72285	188.2
41	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)	Rhineland-Palatinate	57580	183.6
42	Birkenfeld	Rhineland-Palatinate	55765	183.5
43	Worms	Rhineland-Palatinate	67549	180.1
44	Mainz	Rhineland-Palatinate	55126	180.0
45	Teltow-Fläming	Brandenburg	14980	174.4
46	Braunschweig	Lower Saxony	38106	173.5
47	Remscheid	North Rhine-Westphalia	42857	173.1
48	Rhein-Lahn-Kreis	Rhineland-Palatinate	56355	172.3
49	Gelsenkirchen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45886	171.4
50	Herford	North Rhine-Westphalia	32120	170.3

Fastest shrinking districts

	District	State	Postal code	Population change per 10,000 residents
1	Trier	Rhineland-Palatinate	54290	-708.6
2	Landshut	Bavaria	84026	-650.2
3	Kempten (Allgäu)	Bavaria	87437	-590.7
4	Holzminden	Lower Saxony	37635	-543.5
5	Ansbach	Bavaria	91520	-525.4
6	Südwestpfalz	Rhineland-Palatinate	66978	-518.9
7	Köln	North Rhine-Westphalia	50767	-510.3
8	Goslar	Lower Saxony	38690	-486.0
9	Halle (Saale)	Saxony-Anhalt	06106	-472.3
10	Vorpommern-Rügen	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	18465	-461.4
11	Bamberg	Bavaria	96050	-457.0
12	Traunstein	Bavaria	83349	-439.6
13	Cottbus	Brandenburg	03051	-438.5
14	Celle	Lower Saxony	29331	-434.0
15	Regensburg	Bavaria	93045	-414.5
16	Münster	North Rhine-Westphalia	48135	-411.4
17	Northeim	Lower Saxony	37547	-410.8
18	Vogelsbergkreis	Hesse	36326	-408.7
19	Vorpommern-Greifswald	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	17392	-405.3
20	Lüneburg	Lower Saxony	21385	-397.6
21	Mecklenburgische Seenplatte	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	17159	-396.9
22	Groß-Gerau	Hesse	64584	-377.8
23	Lüchow-Dannenberg	Lower Saxony	29479	-362.1
24	Miesbach	Bavaria	83707	-357.1
25	Dessau-Roßlau	Saxony-Anhalt	06846	-355.9
26	Mainz-Bingen	Rhineland-Palatinate	55409	-322.7
27	Rosenheim, Landkreis	Bavaria	83135	-318.0
28	Unterallgäu	Bavaria	87751	-308.9
29	Heidelberg	Baden-Württemberg	69117	-305.3
30	Kassel, Landkreis	Hesse	34311	-304.1
31	Bonn	North Rhine-Westphalia	53170	-302.2
32	Oberallgäu	Bavaria	87497	-299.1
33	Dachau	Bavaria	85247	-293.4
34	Wittmund	Lower Saxony	26465	-270.7
35	Coburg, Landkreis	Bavaria	96472	-262.2
36	Aschaffenburg, Landkreis	Bavaria	63828	-254.4
37	Vulkaneifel	Rhineland-Palatinate	54578	-253.4
38	Hildesheim	Lower Saxony	31121	-252.0
39	Zweibrücken	Rhineland-Palatinate	66482	-250.5
40	Gießen	Hesse	35410	-249.2
41	Odenwaldkreis	Hesse	64739	-247.7
42	Ludwigsburg	Baden-Württemberg	71696	-237.7
43	Memmingen	Bavaria	87700	-237.7
44	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	70327	-234.1
45	Ostallgäu	Bavaria	87650	-221.8
46	Rostock	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	18059	-221.1
47	Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis	North Rhine-Westphalia	58311	-217.2
48	Stendal	Saxony-Anhalt	39596	-213.2
49	Würzburg, Landkreis	Bavaria	97256	-206.8
50	Region Hannover	Lower Saxony	30622	-206.6

One row per district. Germany publishes these figures only by Kreis — the rates need a labour force or population estimate that does not exist below district level — so one row covers every postal code inside that district. The postal code shown is one of them. Places whose figure the statistical offices withhold are absent rather than shown as zero.