Highest unemployment

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The 20 districts in North Rhine-Westphalia with the highest unemployment rate, and the 20 with the lowest, out of 53 with a published figure.

	District	State	Postal code	Unemployment rate
1	Gelsenkirchen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45886	14.1 %
2	Duisburg	North Rhine-Westphalia	47167	12.2 %
3	Hagen	North Rhine-Westphalia	58091	11.1 %
4	Dortmund	North Rhine-Westphalia	44147	10.9 %
5	Herne	North Rhine-Westphalia	44629	10.7 %
6	Oberhausen	North Rhine-Westphalia	46117	10.3 %
7	Krefeld	North Rhine-Westphalia	47802	10.1 %
8	Essen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45131	10.0 %
9	Mönchengladbach	North Rhine-Westphalia	41169	9.5 %
10	Wuppertal	North Rhine-Westphalia	42271	8.8 %
11	Bochum	North Rhine-Westphalia	44793	8.6 %
12	Köln	North Rhine-Westphalia	50767	8.6 %
13	Mülheim an der Ruhr	North Rhine-Westphalia	45473	8.2 %
14	Hamm	North Rhine-Westphalia	59065	8.0 %
15	Bielefeld	North Rhine-Westphalia	33609	7.9 %
16	Recklinghausen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45711	7.9 %
17	Leverkusen	North Rhine-Westphalia	51371	7.4 %
18	Solingen	North Rhine-Westphalia	42657	7.4 %
19	Bottrop	North Rhine-Westphalia	46240	7.3 %
20	Remscheid	North Rhine-Westphalia	42857	7.1 %

Lowest unemployment

	District	State	Postal code	Unemployment rate
1	Coesfeld	North Rhine-Westphalia	48720	2.8 %
2	Borken	North Rhine-Westphalia	48596	3.5 %
3	Olpe	North Rhine-Westphalia	57439	3.6 %
4	Höxter	North Rhine-Westphalia	34434	3.7 %
5	Gütersloh	North Rhine-Westphalia	33413	3.8 %
6	Hochsauerlandkreis	North Rhine-Westphalia	59844	3.9 %
7	Steinfurt	North Rhine-Westphalia	48565	4.1 %
8	Münster	North Rhine-Westphalia	48135	4.4 %
9	Warendorf	North Rhine-Westphalia	59215	4.5 %
10	Kleve	North Rhine-Westphalia	47608	4.9 %
11	Paderborn	North Rhine-Westphalia	33129	4.9 %
12	Heinsberg	North Rhine-Westphalia	52509	5.0 %
13	Oberbergischer Kreis	North Rhine-Westphalia	51645	5.0 %
14	Rhein-Sieg-Kreis	North Rhine-Westphalia	53719	5.0 %
15	Siegen-Wittgenstein	North Rhine-Westphalia	57234	5.0 %
16	Soest	North Rhine-Westphalia	59519	5.0 %
17	Lippe	North Rhine-Westphalia	32754	5.1 %
18	Minden-Lübbecke	North Rhine-Westphalia	32427	5.1 %
19	Herford	North Rhine-Westphalia	32120	5.2 %
20	Euskirchen	North Rhine-Westphalia	53919	5.3 %

Highest unemployment — All of Germany

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.