Metropolitan regions, economically strong individual locations as well as large cities with universities and colleges, but also some secondary locations without metropolitan character are affected by the increased demand for housing(location analysis). But is this the case in all cities?
André Herrmann, inventor of the word "hypezig" as an artificial word for the combination of hype and Leipzig, has not yet found a suitable term for the city of Dessau-Roßlau. Rather, he laments the vacancy rate there: "In almost all cities, people are lining up for housing, but in Dessau, the only thing standing is the apartments, and that is: empty."
Since we don't always focus on Munich, Leipzig or Berlin, we'll take a look at this city and use our market data to describe the spatial distribution of various characteristics.
Let's get out of here?
The stand-up comedian André Herrmann recently headlined a guest article for the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Nothing like getting out of Dessau-Roßlau!"(Paid article) These are truly not flattering words, but he may well say it, since this is his home region.
He talks about the vacancy rate and a correspondingly relaxed housing marketespecially in apartment buildings. There are probably no queues of people there when viewing apartments. Moreover, with the high average age of the population, he wonders why the city does not have at least the highest pharmacy density of the republic. That would be something.
The city of Dessau-Roßlau has only existed since 2007, formed by the merger of Dessau with Roßlau on the Elbe. It is best known for the Bauhaus building complex. Nearby, you'll find the Wörlitzer Park landscape garden or the Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich, though most of it is in the neighboring district of Wittenberg. The twin city is after all the third largest city in Saxony-Anhalt with numerous museums and monuments. Incidentally, among the many artists born there is another best-known comedian: Dieter Hallervorden.
Market data using the example of socio-demographics and building data
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Let's take a look at this city with the help of our market data. For example, the proportion of senior citizens in Dessau-Roßlau is actually very high: Almost a third of the almost 80,000 inhabitants are 65 years and older. On average in Germany, the proportion is only around 22%.
But geographically, as is often the case, the spatial distribution is more differentiated. If we look at the distribution of seniors on the basis of fine-grained residential quarters, they live primarily in the inner-city core areas of the twin city, as our map (PDF) shows. It also shows pharmacies as points of interest, which are also concentrated in the more densely populated core city and are also frequented by seniors in particular.
Moreover, where are multifamily buildings to be found in which so many apartments are said to be vacant in the essay by comedian André Herrmann? Of the almost 22,000 buildings for Dessau-Roßlau in our Building database, more than 2,500 are assigned to this building type. These are shown as dots in the map, additionally all buildings with commercial units (companies, offices, small businesses, etc.), accordingly company addresses are also available.
The housing situation and living environment are important characteristics of sociodemographics. More than 22 million buildings and their surroundings were evaluated on the basis of various criteria. Data on buildings with numbers of households and companies are of particular interest to the real estate and telecommunications industries.
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