Our Geomarketing Map of the Month for May shows the regional distribution of industry density in Germany in 2026.

According to the latest NIQ Base Data, the industry density, i.e. the number of industrial employees per 1,000 inhabitants, is above average especially in the old federal states. By a wide margin, the district of Wolfsburg ranks first, with 465 out of every 1,000 residents employed in the industrial sector. The best-ranked district in eastern Germany is the Ilm-Kreis district, with 111 industrial employees per 1,000 inhabitants, placing it only 58th overall. By contrast, the German capital Berlin ranks just 379th out of all 400 urban and rural districts, with an industry density of 20. At the bottom of the ranking is the district of Potsdam, where industry density is the lowest at only 3 industrial employees per 1,000 inhabitants.

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