How many people live in the district - and how many dairy cows?
For the 50th birthday of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, the editors have put together interesting and surprising figures.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
– It's been exactly 50 years since the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen came into being in its current form in the course of local government reform.
On July 1, 1972, the two old districts of Bad Tölz and large parts of the district of Wolfratshausen were combined and merged into today's double district.
On the occasion of this anniversary, the Tölzer Kurier has put together some interesting but also surprising facts and figures about the district.
Data from the Bavarian State Statistical Office from the years 2019 to 2021 served as the basis.
Largest city Geretsried, smallest community Jachenau
127,919
people live in the district.
The largest city, Geretsried, has
25,221 inhabitants.
822
citizens live in the smallest municipality Jachenau.
The area of the district is
1111 square kilometers.
21
towns and communities belong to the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen: Forest, Isar, nature reserves
The private weather station at Hechenberg determined an annual average temperature of
8.2 degrees Celsius for the district in 2021.
The average rainfall last year was 111.6
liters per square meter.
12
nature reserves are designated in the district.
53.6
percent of the district is covered with forest.
22,600
liters flow down the Isar every second in winter.
The level at the Isar power plant in Bad Tölz measures
33,000 liters per second during the summer months.
The highest mountain in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen is the Schafreuter
The highest mountain measures 2102
meters - the Schafreuter, over which the border between Bavaria and Tyrol runs.
27.9
percent of the district area is used for agriculture.
There are 1145
farms in total.
18,529
dairy cows and
41,090
cattle cavorted on the pastures and in the stables.
More citizens in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen over 65 than under 18
The district stretches
51 kilometers from north to south.
It is 30
kilometers from west to east.
17.3
percent of the population is under 18 years old.
21.7
percent is the proportion of over 65-year-olds.
Citizens produced 66,038
tons of waste in 2019.
18,417
tons of bulky waste were disposed of in the same year.
WGV Quartzbichl maintains
23 recycling centers in the district.
This is how big the average apartment in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen is
Citizens consumed 70,101,300
kilowatt hours of electricity in 2020.
4.4
rooms and
An average apartment in the district has an area of 100
square meters.
There were 58,716
apartments in total in 2020.
On average, 115.2
people live in one square kilometer in the district.
This means that the population density is almost twice as high as in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
The district office issued 336
building permits in 2020.
302
new buildings were erected in the same year.
What does the district citizen earn on average?
38,239
employees subject to social security contributions were registered in 2020.
There are 14
companies with over 250 employees in the district.
108
insolvency proceedings were opened in 2021 at the district court in Wolfratshausen.
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108 insolvency proceedings were opened in 2021 at the district court in Wolfratshausen.
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The annual average unemployment rate in 2020 was 2.8
percent.
425
social assistance recipients were registered on average in 2020.
2990
euros was the primary income per month in 2019.
263,043
holidaymakers spent their holidays in the district in 2021.
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263,043 vacationers spent their holidays in the district.
The Tölzer Marktstrasse is popular with tourists.
© Arndt Pröhl
12,333
guests came from abroad.
Holidaymakers stayed 3.5
days on average.
5
hospitals ensure medical care in the district.
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5 hospitals ensure medical care in the district, one of which is the Asklepios city clinic.
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22,250
patients were admitted there in 2019.
The district association of the Red Cross has 8,959
supporting members.
4,465
primary school children learned to read, write and do arithmetic last school year.
Pupils and trainees in the district visit 39
schools of almost all types of education every day.
Figures on the road network in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
1052
teachers from all school classes were registered with the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen school authority in 2021.
9034
employees counted the
1570
craft businesses in 2019.
The road construction authority in Weilheim im Landkreis looks after 435
kilometers of road.
This roughly corresponds to the distance from Bad Tölz to Florence.
134
kilometers of it on federal roads,
189
kilometers of state roads as well
112
kilometers of county roads.
2
road maintenance depots in Bad Tölz and Wolfratshausen take on the tasks on site.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen: Commuters and commuters
At the end of 2021, 105,536
vehicles were registered with the registration office in the district office.
22,288
people commute to their place of work outside the district every day.
13,705
foreigners have their jobs in the district.
3418
traffic accidents occurred in 2021 on the roads of the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district.
6
dead as well
732
light and serious injuries are the sad result.
4580
crimes were registered in 2020 by the police headquarters in Oberbayern Süd in the district.
The officials were able to clear up 71.1
percent of the offenses.
You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.
By Franziska Selter