Study: Regensburg is a single capital – Bavaria

According to a study, Regensburg remains the single capital of Germany. Nowhere else in 2022 did so many people live alone as in the big city in the Upper Palatinate, according to the company GfK in Nuremberg. The proportion of one-person households in the city was 52.7 percent – and thus well above the nationwide proportion of 40.9 percent. The city of Regensburg, with a population of 150,000, had already taken the top spot in previous years.

The cities of Erlangen, Leipzig, Nuremberg and Augsburg followed last year. According to the study, the cities were generally ahead when it came to single households. The Goslar district in Lower Saxony was the first district to come in 57th.

The proportion of single households in Germany has been increasing for years, but fell again for the first time last year, according to the study on the population structure. In all federal states except for Saxony, the number of single-person households fell in 2022. The average household size was largest in Baden-Württemberg at 2.11 people, while it was lowest in Berlin at 1.8 people.

The district with the fewest single households was therefore the district of Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony. This in turn was also the leader among multi-person households with children. The district of Cloppenburg had a share of 40.8 percent last year – the national average was 28.6 percent.

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