For 200 years the trend has been going in one direction only – into the cities. While in 1800 just five percent of people in what is now Germany lived in cities, by 2019 that proportion had jumped to 77 percent. The jobs were in the city, while industrialisation of farming made manual labour in the countryside less necessary. Stagnating citiesThe statistics for 2020 show that at least for the pandemic year, the surge in the population sizes of major German cities was put on hold. Engel & Völkers performed a market market analysis of 700 German councils that lie just outside the limits of the major cities, and compared prices in 2020 with those from 2015.

Source: The Local March 26, 2021 15:45 UTC