City ranking 2020: Life is best in these German cities 

This year, too, major German cities were judged on their quality of life, economic strength and development.

We'll tell you which cities are the most livable.

Where do you have the best

?

In which city is the

booming

?

And above all, where is the

highest?

These questions were also addressed in this year's

ranking.

A city in Bavaria made it to the top as the most economically strong German city.

The city ranking is carried out regularly by

on behalf of ImmobilienScout24 and WirtschaftsWoche.

The 71 German independent

are assessed on the basis of a wide variety of criteria.

Over 100 aspects such as the labor and real estate market * or the economic structure are included in the evaluation.

This results in three different ranking categories.

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• The level ranking: The current

  economic

  strength of

  a city is shown here.

• The dynamic ranking: This should show which city has developed the

  best

  in the last five years

  .

• The sustainability ranking: The category will be included for the first time in 2020 and assess the

  sustainable development of

  a city.

  Ecological as well as economic and social aspects count.

Level ranking: Munich still at the top

The Bavarian state capital

not only wins the overall level ranking, but also leads all sub-areas.

Quality of life, economy, real estate and labor market are at the top level in Munich.

Second place can also be secured by a Bavarian city:

is particularly impressive in the economic area.

Stuttgart came in third, followed by Erlangen, which fell two places compared to the previous year.

.

The city on the Neckar can improve itself by a total of fourteen places and thus reaches twelfth place.

Two cities from North Rhine-Westphalia, on the other hand, remain at the bottom: Gelsenkirchen ranks 71st and Herne 69th.

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Dynamic ranking: Kiel makes a leap up

Munich is also at the forefront in the dynamic

and pushes

back to second place.

The state capital can score points above all with a large start-up scene and a large number of research institutions and universities.

The

can make up most of the places

, having moved up 17 places from 17th place.

But

also made it

with an improvement of ten places

and is now in sixth place.

Salzgitter brings up the rear, this is where the least development was felt in the last five years.

Sustainability as a new category

leads

the ranking when it comes to

sustainability

.

The city can

convince

both in the areas of

issues.

This is followed by Ingolstadt, which scores particularly well with its per capita solar output, and Heidelberg.

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