Highest unemployment in Germany

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The 50 districts in Germany with the highest unemployment rate, and the 50 with the lowest, out of 400 with a published figure.

Highest unemployment

	District	State	Postal code	Unemployment rate
1	Gelsenkirchen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45886	14.1 %
2	Bremerhaven	Bremen	27574	13.3 %
3	Duisburg	North Rhine-Westphalia	47167	12.2 %
4	Hagen	North Rhine-Westphalia	58091	11.1 %
5	Pirmasens	Rhineland-Palatinate	66953	11.0 %
6	Dortmund	North Rhine-Westphalia	44147	10.9 %
7	Herne	North Rhine-Westphalia	44629	10.7 %
8	Wilhelmshaven	Lower Saxony	26386	10.4 %
9	Oberhausen	North Rhine-Westphalia	46117	10.3 %
10	Krefeld	North Rhine-Westphalia	47802	10.1 %
11	Essen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45131	10.0 %
12	Bremen	Bremen	28219	9.6 %
13	Delmenhorst	Lower Saxony	27751	9.6 %
14	Uckermark	Brandenburg	16307	9.6 %
15	Mansfeld-Südharz	Saxony-Anhalt	06347	9.5 %
16	Mönchengladbach	North Rhine-Westphalia	41169	9.5 %
17	Salzgitter	Lower Saxony	38236	9.2 %
18	Schwerin	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	19055	8.9 %
19	Stendal	Saxony-Anhalt	39596	8.9 %
20	Berlin	Berlin	12039	8.8 %
21	Regionalverband Saarbrücken	Saarland	66121	8.8 %
22	Wuppertal	North Rhine-Westphalia	42271	8.8 %
23	Vorpommern-Rügen	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	18465	8.7 %
24	Bochum	North Rhine-Westphalia	44793	8.6 %
25	Köln	North Rhine-Westphalia	50767	8.6 %
26	Halle (Saale)	Saxony-Anhalt	06106	8.5 %
27	Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Rhineland-Palatinate	67067	8.4 %
28	Mecklenburgische Seenplatte	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	17159	8.4 %
29	Vorpommern-Greifswald	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	17392	8.4 %
30	Offenbach am Main	Hesse	63065	8.3 %
31	Brandenburg an der Havel	Brandenburg	14772	8.2 %
32	Emden	Lower Saxony	26723	8.2 %
33	Magdeburg	Saxony-Anhalt	39104	8.2 %
34	Mülheim an der Ruhr	North Rhine-Westphalia	45473	8.2 %
35	Kaiserslautern	Rhineland-Palatinate	67657	8.1 %
36	Hamm	North Rhine-Westphalia	59065	8.0 %
37	Bielefeld	North Rhine-Westphalia	33609	7.9 %
38	Dessau-Roßlau	Saxony-Anhalt	06846	7.9 %
39	Recklinghausen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45711	7.9 %
40	Neumünster	Schleswig-Holstein	24536	7.8 %
41	Flensburg	Schleswig-Holstein	24937	7.7 %
42	Salzlandkreis	Saxony-Anhalt	39218	7.7 %
43	Görlitz	Saxony	02797	7.6 %
44	Lübeck	Schleswig-Holstein	23554	7.6 %
45	Worms	Rhineland-Palatinate	67549	7.6 %
46	Frankfurt (Oder)	Brandenburg	15230	7.5 %
47	Kassel	Hesse	34123	7.5 %
48	Wiesbaden	Hesse	65182	7.5 %
49	Frankenthal (Pfalz)	Rhineland-Palatinate	67227	7.4 %
50	Gera	Thuringia	07546	7.4 %

Lowest unemployment

	District	State	Postal code	Unemployment rate
1	Eichstätt	Bavaria	85122	1.7 %
2	Main-Spessart	Bavaria	97828	1.8 %
3	Donau-Ries	Bavaria	86703	1.9 %
4	Günzburg	Bavaria	89335	1.9 %
5	Pfaffenhofen a.d.Ilm	Bavaria	85290	1.9 %
6	Erding	Bavaria	85456	2.0 %
7	Neumarkt i.d.OPf.	Bavaria	92355	2.0 %
8	Unterallgäu	Bavaria	87751	2.0 %
9	Würzburg, Landkreis	Bavaria	97256	2.0 %
10	Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen	Bavaria	83623	2.1 %
11	Biberach	Baden-Württemberg	88454	2.1 %
12	Ebersberg	Bavaria	85614	2.1 %
13	Neustadt a.d.Aisch-Bad Windsheim	Bavaria	91472	2.1 %
14	Neu-Ulm	Bavaria	89281	2.2 %
15	Neuburg-Schrobenhausen	Bavaria	86643	2.2 %
16	Roth	Bavaria	91166	2.2 %
17	Alb-Donau-Kreis	Baden-Württemberg	89188	2.3 %
18	Bamberg, Landkreis	Bavaria	96158	2.3 %
19	Dillingen a.d.Donau	Bavaria	89429	2.3 %
20	Kitzingen	Bavaria	97342	2.3 %
21	Miesbach	Bavaria	83707	2.3 %
22	Oberallgäu	Bavaria	87497	2.3 %
23	Dachau	Bavaria	85247	2.4 %
24	Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm	Rhineland-Palatinate	54646	2.4 %
25	Erlangen-Höchstadt	Bavaria	91096	2.4 %
26	Freising	Bavaria	85391	2.4 %
27	Lindau (Bodensee)	Bavaria	88161	2.4 %
28	Nürnberger Land	Bavaria	91227	2.4 %
29	Ostallgäu	Bavaria	87650	2.4 %
30	Ravensburg	Baden-Württemberg	88287	2.4 %
31	Regensburg, Landkreis	Bavaria	93107	2.4 %
32	Rosenheim, Landkreis	Bavaria	83135	2.4 %
33	Traunstein	Bavaria	83349	2.4 %
34	Aichach-Friedberg	Bavaria	86510	2.5 %
35	Ansbach, Landkreis	Bavaria	91614	2.5 %
36	Landsberg am Lech	Bavaria	86926	2.5 %
37	Landshut, Landkreis	Bavaria	84137	2.5 %
38	München, Landkreis	Bavaria	85577	2.5 %
39	Amberg-Sulzbach	Bavaria	92265	2.6 %
40	Bodenseekreis	Baden-Württemberg	88097	2.6 %
41	Dingolfing-Landau	Bavaria	84183	2.6 %
42	Emmendingen	Baden-Württemberg	79336	2.6 %
43	Fürth, Landkreis	Bavaria	90574	2.6 %
44	Grafschaft Bentheim	Lower Saxony	49824	2.6 %
45	Kelheim	Bavaria	93339	2.6 %
46	Rottweil	Baden-Württemberg	78662	2.6 %
47	Schweinfurt, Landkreis	Bavaria	97508	2.6 %
48	Straubing-Bogen	Bavaria	94357	2.6 %
49	Weilheim-Schongau	Bavaria	82401	2.6 %
50	Augsburg, Landkreis	Bavaria	86494	2.7 %

By state

Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Hesse Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate

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.