Most long-term unemployment in Germany

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The 50 districts in Germany with the highest share of the unemployed out of work over a year, and the 50 with the lowest, out of 400 with a published figure.

Most long-term unemployment

	District	State	Postal code	Share of the unemployed out of work over a year
1	Mülheim an der Ruhr	North Rhine-Westphalia	45473	55.5 %
2	Uckermark	Brandenburg	16307	54.2 %
3	Recklinghausen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45711	52.2 %
4	Oder-Spree	Brandenburg	15566	50.9 %
5	Solingen	North Rhine-Westphalia	42657	50.7 %
6	Hagen	North Rhine-Westphalia	58091	50.3 %
7	Krefeld	North Rhine-Westphalia	47802	50.1 %
8	Köln	North Rhine-Westphalia	50767	49.9 %
9	Bielefeld	North Rhine-Westphalia	33609	49.6 %
10	Hamm	North Rhine-Westphalia	59065	49.4 %
11	Oberhausen	North Rhine-Westphalia	46117	49.1 %
12	Mansfeld-Südharz	Saxony-Anhalt	06347	48.9 %
13	Wiesbaden	Hesse	65182	48.3 %
14	Görlitz	Saxony	02797	48.2 %
15	Heidekreis	Lower Saxony	29646	48.2 %
16	Region Hannover	Lower Saxony	30622	47.3 %
17	Bonn	North Rhine-Westphalia	53170	47.2 %
18	Gelsenkirchen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45886	47.2 %
19	Dortmund	North Rhine-Westphalia	44147	47.0 %
20	Lüchow-Dannenberg	Lower Saxony	29479	46.8 %
21	Düren	North Rhine-Westphalia	52391	46.6 %
22	Mönchengladbach	North Rhine-Westphalia	41169	46.6 %
23	Offenbach am Main	Hesse	63065	46.2 %
24	Essen	North Rhine-Westphalia	45131	46.0 %
25	Saarlouis	Saarland	66793	45.9 %
26	Göttingen	Lower Saxony	37124	45.8 %
27	Hochtaunuskreis	Hesse	61346	45.8 %
28	Lippe	North Rhine-Westphalia	32754	45.4 %
29	Nordsachsen	Saxony	04774	45.4 %
30	Darmstadt-Dieburg	Hesse	64401	45.3 %
31	Wuppertal	North Rhine-Westphalia	42271	45.3 %
32	Kleve	North Rhine-Westphalia	47608	45.1 %
33	Oberspreewald-Lausitz	Brandenburg	01994	45.1 %
34	Bremen	Bremen	28219	44.8 %
35	Schleswig-Flensburg	Schleswig-Holstein	24884	44.8 %
36	Bautzen	Saxony	02621	44.6 %
37	Münster	North Rhine-Westphalia	48135	44.6 %
38	Städteregion Aachen	North Rhine-Westphalia	52078	44.6 %
39	Emden	Lower Saxony	26723	44.4 %
40	Märkischer Kreis	North Rhine-Westphalia	58640	44.4 %
41	Duisburg	North Rhine-Westphalia	47167	44.3 %
42	Helmstedt	Lower Saxony	38379	44.3 %
43	Meißen	Saxony	01609	44.3 %
44	Rhein-Erft-Kreis	North Rhine-Westphalia	50259	44.1 %
45	Euskirchen	North Rhine-Westphalia	53919	43.9 %
46	Pirmasens	Rhineland-Palatinate	66953	43.8 %
47	Bochum	North Rhine-Westphalia	44793	43.6 %
48	Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis	North Rhine-Westphalia	51463	43.6 %
49	Wilhelmshaven	Lower Saxony	26386	43.6 %
50	Odenwaldkreis	Hesse	64739	43.4 %

Least long-term unemployment

	District	State	Postal code	Share of the unemployed out of work over a year
1	Pfaffenhofen a.d.Ilm	Bavaria	85290	14.5 %
2	Eichstätt	Bavaria	85122	15.0 %
3	Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen	Bavaria	83623	17.0 %
4	Dachau	Bavaria	85247	17.6 %
5	Kitzingen	Bavaria	97342	18.6 %
6	Lindau (Bodensee)	Bavaria	88161	18.6 %
7	Neuburg-Schrobenhausen	Bavaria	86643	18.8 %
8	Landsberg am Lech	Bavaria	86926	19.1 %
9	Main-Spessart	Bavaria	97828	19.1 %
10	Neu-Ulm	Bavaria	89281	19.1 %
11	Regensburg, Landkreis	Bavaria	93107	19.5 %
12	Erding	Bavaria	85456	19.6 %
13	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Bavaria	82475	19.9 %
14	Günzburg	Bavaria	89335	19.9 %
15	Neumarkt i.d.OPf.	Bavaria	92355	19.9 %
16	Rhein-Lahn-Kreis	Rhineland-Palatinate	56355	20.0 %
17	Ebersberg	Bavaria	85614	20.2 %
18	Augsburg, Landkreis	Bavaria	86494	20.3 %
19	Cham	Bavaria	93468	20.5 %
20	Kempten (Allgäu)	Bavaria	87437	20.5 %
21	Donau-Ries	Bavaria	86703	20.7 %
22	Dillingen a.d.Donau	Bavaria	89429	21.5 %
23	Freyung-Grafenau	Bavaria	94160	21.6 %
24	Regen	Bavaria	94253	21.6 %
25	Ulm	Baden-Württemberg	89073	21.6 %
26	Aichach-Friedberg	Bavaria	86510	21.7 %
27	Passau, Landkreis	Bavaria	94148	22.6 %
28	Rottweil	Baden-Württemberg	78662	22.8 %
29	Straubing-Bogen	Bavaria	94357	22.9 %
30	Miltenberg	Bavaria	63924	23.0 %
31	Traunstein	Bavaria	83349	23.1 %
32	Amberg-Sulzbach	Bavaria	92265	23.2 %
33	Bayreuth	Bavaria	95445	23.2 %
34	Starnberg	Bavaria	82317	23.2 %
35	Unterallgäu	Bavaria	87751	23.2 %
36	Alb-Donau-Kreis	Baden-Württemberg	89188	23.3 %
37	Ostallgäu	Bavaria	87650	23.3 %
38	Rosenheim, Landkreis	Bavaria	83135	23.3 %
39	Bamberg, Landkreis	Bavaria	96158	23.4 %
40	Deggendorf	Bavaria	94541	23.6 %
41	Nürnberger Land	Bavaria	91227	23.6 %
42	Schwandorf	Bavaria	92539	23.8 %
43	Ansbach	Bavaria	91520	23.9 %
44	Emmendingen	Baden-Württemberg	79336	23.9 %
45	Erlangen-Höchstadt	Bavaria	91096	23.9 %
46	Kronach	Bavaria	96349	23.9 %
47	Roth	Bavaria	91166	24.0 %
48	Bodenseekreis	Baden-Württemberg	88097	24.1 %
49	Hof	Bavaria	95028	24.1 %
50	Miesbach	Bavaria	83707	24.1 %

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.