More and more people are leaving big cities for the surrounding areas

Frankfurt According to a study, the metropolises in Germany are increasingly losing people to the surrounding areas. While the big cities once benefited from an influx, the trend towards urban exodus has intensified in recent years. This is shown by an evaluation by the data analysis company Empirica Regio for Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart.

In 2018, more than 47,000 people migrated from the seven largest German cities to directly adjacent districts or urban districts, and in 2021 there were around 56,600, according to the study available to the dpa news agency. In particular, many people from Berlin (17,249), Hamburg (11,145), Cologne (7894) and Frankfurt (6653) were drawn to the surrounding area.