Frankfurt is considered by many to be the German commuter capital.
But that's not true either in a national or regional comparison, as current figures from the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development show.
Falk Heunemann
Business editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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Munich has the most commuters in absolute terms, with 400,000 foreign employees coming to work in the Bavarian state capital, while 190,000 Munich residents work in the surrounding area.
Frankfurt is just behind, with 385,000 commuters and 100,000 commuters out.
On average, commuters in the Rhine-Main area travel less than 20 kilometers.
Berlin has the lowest rate
A different picture emerges when the number of commuters is compared to the total number of employees.
Then Darmstadt is the German commuter capital, because 69 percent of those employed in Darmstadt come from outside, i.e. do not live in the city.
The BASF city of Ludwigshafen has the same proportion of commuters.
Another Hessian city follows closely behind: Offenbach has almost 33,000 commuters, which is 68 percent of all employees in the city.
For Frankfurt, on the other hand, the rate is only 64 percent, in Munich it is only 45 percent.
The federal capital Berlin has the lowest commuter rate of all major cities at 22 percent.
Most of the 1.5 million employees want and can apparently also live in the capital.
The statistics only collect differences between place of residence and place of work.
It is therefore not possible to determine how often the employees commute and with which means of transport - i.e. whether by car, train or bicycle.
And even if more work is being done in the home office than at the actual workplace, this is not reflected in the figures.