Most densely populated places

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The 20 municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia with the highest population density, and the 20 with the lowest, out of 393 with a published figure.

	Municipality	State	Postal code	Population density
1	Herne	North Rhine-Westphalia	44629	3,026.1 /km²
2	Düsseldorf	North Rhine-Westphalia	40252	2,826.0 /km²
3	Oberhausen	North Rhine-Westphalia	46117	2,766.3 /km²
4	Essen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45131	2,720.5 /km²
5	Gelsenkirchen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45886	2,521.9 /km²
6	Köln	North Rhine-Westphalia	50767	2,521.5 /km²
7	Bochum	North Rhine-Westphalia	44793	2,445.5 /km²
8	Bonn	North Rhine-Westphalia	53170	2,284.3 /km²
9	Duisburg	North Rhine-Westphalia	47167	2,154.6 /km²
10	Dortmund	North Rhine-Westphalia	44147	2,135.2 /km²
11	Wuppertal	North Rhine-Westphalia	42271	2,129.4 /km²
12	Hilden	North Rhine-Westphalia	40723	2,127.9 /km²
13	Leverkusen	North Rhine-Westphalia	51371	2,119.6 /km²
14	Gladbeck	North Rhine-Westphalia	45966	2,104.6 /km²
15	Mülheim an der Ruhr	North Rhine-Westphalia	45473	1,884.9 /km²
16	Monheim am Rhein	North Rhine-Westphalia	40786	1,847.0 /km²
17	Solingen	North Rhine-Westphalia	42657	1,845.3 /km²
18	Siegburg	North Rhine-Westphalia	53719	1,787.9 /km²
19	Recklinghausen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45659	1,737.2 /km²
20	Krefeld	North Rhine-Westphalia	47802	1,672.0 /km²

Most sparsely populated places

	Municipality	State	Postal code	Population density
1	Dahlem	North Rhine-Westphalia	53949	45.8 /km²
2	Hellenthal	North Rhine-Westphalia	53940	55.8 /km²
3	Lichtenau	North Rhine-Westphalia	33165	56.2 /km²
4	Blankenheim	North Rhine-Westphalia	53945	56.7 /km²
5	Borgentreich	North Rhine-Westphalia	34434	63.0 /km²
6	Medebach	North Rhine-Westphalia	59964	63.3 /km²
7	Willebadessen	North Rhine-Westphalia	34439	63.7 /km²
8	Rüthen	North Rhine-Westphalia	59602	64.6 /km²
9	Bad Berleburg	North Rhine-Westphalia	57319	66.7 /km²
10	Heimbach	North Rhine-Westphalia	52396	69.6 /km²
11	Marienmünster	North Rhine-Westphalia	37696	75.1 /km²
12	Bad Wünnenberg	North Rhine-Westphalia	33181	75.4 /km²
13	Nieheim	North Rhine-Westphalia	33039	75.7 /km²
14	Hopsten	North Rhine-Westphalia	48496	76.8 /km²
15	Eslohe (Sauerland)	North Rhine-Westphalia	59889	77.4 /km²
16	Kirchhundem	North Rhine-Westphalia	57399	77.6 /km²
17	Schmallenberg	North Rhine-Westphalia	57392	80.8 /km²
18	Stemwede	North Rhine-Westphalia	49447	81.9 /km²
19	Nettersheim	North Rhine-Westphalia	53947	85.8 /km²
20	Winterberg	North Rhine-Westphalia	59955	88.2 /km²

Most densely populated places — All of Germany

One row per municipality. The figures are published by Gemeinde, so every postal code in a municipality shares them; the postal code shown is one of that municipality's. Places whose figure the statistical offices withhold are absent rather than shown as zero.