Many people in the Rhine-Main area have to make do with relatively little living space.
A current study by the real estate service provider Empirica Regio shows that not only in Frankfurt was the area of 37.4 square meters per head in 2020 particularly low in a nationwide comparison.
In Dietzenbach (37.5 square meters), Rüsselsheim (37.3), Offenbach (35) and Raunheim (34.3), the residents had little space on average.
For the analysis, Empirica Regio examined all German municipalities with more than 400 inhabitants - according to the information from Wednesday, almost 9,000 municipalities and 107 independent cities were recorded.
Between 2015 and 2020, living space per capita increased the most in rural regions, at 3.7 percent.
The lowest growth was in large cities (plus 1.5 percent).
Empirica Regio put the Germany-wide average value for 2020 at just under 46 square meters per capita.
Figures for 2021 are not yet available.
It is striking that many cities from the Rhine-Main area are at the bottom of the list, according to Empirica Regio.
Of the seven largest cities in Germany, people in Frankfurt have the least living space per capita.
The situation was more relaxed in Wiesbaden (41.4 square meters per capita) and Darmstadt (39.2).
According to the analysis, the living space in the country was the highest in the country at 51.4 square meters per capita.
In cities, it was significantly lower at 40.9 square meters, with smaller towns and suburbs in between at 47 square meters.