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Read with care: Recorded crime depends on how often people report and how the police record it, and definitions differ from country to country. Compare regions within one country, not across countries. The PKS also publishes district (Kreis) and city tables; this map shows the 16 states.
Foreign nationals · % of residents · 31 Dec 2025 Source
What it says Share of residents who do not hold German citizenship. A higher share usually means larger international communities and more services used to foreign residents.
What it doesn't Naturalised Germans are not counted. It says nothing about how welcome you will feel.
Moved to Germany from abroad · % of residents · 2025 Source
What it says Share of residents in private households who were born abroad and moved to Germany themselves (Microcensus, “Eingewanderte”), whatever their passport.
What it doesn't A sample survey (first results); people in shared accommodation are not included.
Violent right-wing hate crimes · per 100,000 residents · 2025 · calculated Source
What it says Violent offences that the police recorded as right-wing politically motivated and as hate crime, per 100,000 residents. Calculated by PassPeers from the Federal Government's case list (Bundestag document 21/5639) and Destatis population on 31 Dec 2025.
What it doesn't Only crimes reported to the police and classed this way. Hate crime from other motives is not included, many incidents are never reported, and small states swing a lot from year to year.
Right-wing politically motivated crimes · per 100,000 residents · 2025 Source
What it says All offences the police classed as right-wing politically motivated, per 100,000 residents, as published by the Federal Government. In 2025, 74% of xenophobic crimes recorded in Germany fell into this category (BKA).
What it doesn't Includes propaganda offences, damage and insults, not only offences against people. It is not a measure of how people in a state vote or think.
Recorded crime · per 100,000 residents · 2025 Source
What it says All criminal offences recorded by the police, per 100,000 residents – the BKA's frequency figure (Häufigkeitszahl) from the Police Crime Statistics (PKS).
What it doesn't Crimes are counted where they happen, so city states with many commuters and visitors show higher rates. Includes offences such as fare dodging, drug possession and breaches of residence law. Unreported crime is missing.
Violent crime · per 100,000 residents · 2025 Source
What it says Offences the PKS groups as violent crime (Gewaltkriminalität – for example robbery, serious assault, rape and homicide), per 100,000 residents.
What it doesn't Simple assault is not part of this group. Same counting rules as above.
Population
Latest official estimates, largest first.
| # | State | Population | Share of the country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Rhine-Westphalia | 17,986,214 | 21.5% |
| 2 | Bavaria | 13,245,503 | 15.9% |
| 3 | Baden-Württemberg | 11,238,761 | 13.5% |
| 4 | Lower Saxony | 8,000,826 | 9.6% |
| 5 | Hesse | 6,278,594 | 7.5% |
| 6 | Rhineland-Palatinate | 4,123,022 | 4.9% |
| 7 | Saxony | 4,026,599 | 4.8% |
| 8 | Berlin | 3,700,577 | 4.4% |
| 9 | Schleswig-Holstein | 2,958,519 | 3.5% |
| 10 | Brandenburg | 2,551,889 | 3.1% |
| 11 | Saxony-Anhalt | 2,120,252 | 2.5% |
| 12 | Thuringia | 2,078,946 | 2.5% |
| 13 | Hamburg | 1,869,473 | 2.2% |
| 14 | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 1,573,685 | 1.9% |
| 15 | Saarland | 1,007,342 | 1.2% |
| 16 | Bremen | 706,915 | 0.8% |
| Germany | 83,467,117 | 100% |
31 December 2025 · official estimate · Destatis – Population by federal state (Bevölkerungsfortschreibung, Zensus 2022 basis)
People from your country
Pick your country of birth (in Germany: citizenship) to see where in Germany people from it live – as a number and per 1,000 residents.
Germany counts citizenship, not birthplace: people who became German citizens are not included, and children born in Germany with a foreign passport are. Per 1,000 is calculated by PassPeers from the register count and Destatis population on 30 Nov 2025.
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| Immigrant population | Hate crime | Recorded crime | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | ||||||
| Hamburg | 19.4% | 26.8% | 5.7 | 81 | 11,468 | 457.1 |
| Thuringia Thüringen | 8.4% | 9.0% | 5.3 | 116 | 6,912 | 247.5 |
| Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 6.5% | 7.4% | 4.6 | 145 | 6,603 | 244.2 |
| Brandenburg | 7.4% | 8.6% | 4.0 | 139 | 6,513 | 212.9 |
| Saarland | 15.3% | 18.4% | 3.2 | 58 | 6,558 | 246.1 |
| Saxony-Anhalt Sachsen-Anhalt | 7.9% | 8.6% | 3.2 | 142 | 8,090 | 301.7 |
| Berlin | 22.5% | 27.7% | 2.7 | 82 | 13,642 | 536.9 |
| Rhineland-Palatinate Rheinland-Pfalz | 14.0% | 19.7% | 1.6 | 35 | 5,427 | 207.8 |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 10.5% | 15.2% | 1.5 | 49 | 6,046 | 213.9 |
| Bremen | 23.3% | 30.9% | 1.4 | 79 | 13,393 | 556.3 |
| Saxony Sachsen | 8.4% | 9.3% | 1.4 | 85 | 6,656 | 249.6 |
| Lower Saxony Niedersachsen | 11.7% | 17.2% | 1.1 | 47 | 6,329 | 250.4 |
| Hesse Hessen | 18.6% | 24.8% | 1.0 | 39 | 6,002 | 259.2 |
| Bavaria Bayern | 15.5% | 20.4% | 0.8 | 28 | 4,371 | 163.5 |
| North Rhine-Westphalia Nordrhein-Westfalen | 15.8% | 21.9% | 0.8 | 35 | 7,524 | 299.2 |
| Baden-Württemberg | 18.2% | 23.9% | 0.7 | 28 | 4,902 | 175.6 |
| Germany | 14.9% | 19.8% | 1.5 | 51 | 6,591 | 254.1 |
How to read these figures
We don't rank regions as “friendly” or “unfriendly”. No single number can tell you that, and an area's figures don't describe the people you will meet. Use these figures as one input, next to jobs, housing and the people you know there.
Immigrant population
Foreign nationals
Share of residents who do not hold German citizenship. A higher share usually means larger international communities and more services used to foreign residents.
Naturalised Germans are not counted. It says nothing about how welcome you will feel.
Moved to Germany from abroad
Share of residents in private households who were born abroad and moved to Germany themselves (Microcensus, “Eingewanderte”), whatever their passport.
A sample survey (first results); people in shared accommodation are not included.
Hate crime
Violent right-wing hate crimes
Violent offences that the police recorded as right-wing politically motivated and as hate crime, per 100,000 residents. Calculated by PassPeers from the Federal Government's case list (Bundestag document 21/5639) and Destatis population on 31 Dec 2025.
Only crimes reported to the police and classed this way. Hate crime from other motives is not included, many incidents are never reported, and small states swing a lot from year to year.
Right-wing politically motivated crimes
All offences the police classed as right-wing politically motivated, per 100,000 residents, as published by the Federal Government. In 2025, 74% of xenophobic crimes recorded in Germany fell into this category (BKA).
Includes propaganda offences, damage and insults, not only offences against people. It is not a measure of how people in a state vote or think.
Recorded crime
Read with care: Recorded crime depends on how often people report and how the police record it, and definitions differ from country to country. Compare regions within one country, not across countries.
Recorded crime
All criminal offences recorded by the police, per 100,000 residents – the BKA's frequency figure (Häufigkeitszahl) from the Police Crime Statistics (PKS).
Crimes are counted where they happen, so city states with many commuters and visitors show higher rates. Includes offences such as fare dodging, drug possession and breaches of residence law. Unreported crime is missing.
Violent crime
Offences the PKS groups as violent crime (Gewaltkriminalität – for example robbery, serious assault, rape and homicide), per 100,000 residents.
Simple assault is not part of this group. Same counting rules as above.
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The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) publishes hate crime only for Germany as a whole, so the state figures here come from the Federal Government's answer to a parliamentary question, which covers right-wing motivated crime only.
The PKS also publishes district (Kreis) and city tables; this map shows the 16 states.
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Sources
- Destatis – Population by nationality and federal state, 31 Dec 2025 (Bevölkerungsfortschreibung, Zensus 2022 basis)
- Destatis – Population in private households by immigration history and state, Microcensus 2025 first results
- Deutscher Bundestag, Drucksache 21/5639 – Federal Government answer on right-wing politically motivated crime in the states 2025 (24 Apr 2026), with case annex
- BKA – Politisch motivierte Kriminalität 2025, bundesweite Fallzahlen (fact sheet)
- BKA – Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025, Länder case table T01 with frequency figures (V1.0, 6 Mar 2026)
Map outlines: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Checked 20 October 2026. Figures marked “calculated” are one official count divided by an official population; nothing here is estimated or scored by PassPeers.