Giessen in numbers Facts and Figures 2017/2018 Stadtentwicklungsprofil 2016/2017 Location in Motion Giessen is a youthful city, and with residents from 150 different Giessen – nations also international one that keeps on growing and now has nearly 85,000 inhabitants. According to a recent federal Location in Motion study, Giessen is one of the few strongly growing medium-sized towns in Germany.

Private and public services are essential for the business location Giessen. The proportion of graduates who live and work here is above average.

Approximately 37,000 students who are matriculated in two big and also in two small universities and make Giessen the number one student city in Germany, characterize city life.

An excellent connection to the Rhine Main Area and Frankfurt Airport, a surrounding region that offers many free time activities and a varied cultural scene make life in Giessen attractive.

A close contact with its universities and the associated knowledge transfer facilities has made Giessen a popular city for technology- oriented and knowledge-based companies particularly in the medical industry. Logistics, metal and electrical engineering, in particular the measurement and control technology as well as company-related services, use the existing infrastructure and find in Giessen a place eminently suitable for them.

Giessen is the shopping centre in Mittelhessen with many shops and a traditional weekly market in a historic setting. In addition to traditional offers, there are also numerous creative industry players who are creating new and extraordinary products and services and position themselves as CREATIVE SPHERES.

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Giessen has many advantages:

1970 75,535 1980 76,374 1990 74,497 2000 73,138 2010 76,391 (Before the census 2011)

Positive population growth since 2000

Men 41,444 (48.94 %) Women 43,233 (51.06 %) Non-German 14,373 (16.97 %)

0 bis 6 years 4,613 7 bis 16 years 6,153 17 bis 25 years 16,411 26 bis 65 years 45,208 66 years and older 12,292

Giessen is a youthful city - the youngest in Hessen - with an average age of 39 years. The average age of Germany is over 44 years.

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1,040,091 < Economy Figures Purchasing power index 90.4 Turnover index 192.7 (© Michael Bauer Research GmbH, 2016)

According to GMA expert opinion Giessen is the fourth shopping city in Hessen.

Overnight stays 2016 (Statistics Hessen) 165,586

Trade tax rate in city of Giessen 420 % Local property tax A city Giessen 330 % Local property tax B city Giessen 600 %

Industry 11.2 % Trade, traffic and hotel and restaurant industry 19.6 % Company-related services 18.6 % Public and private services 50.3 % Others 0.3 % Workers total 47,449 Trainees 2,888

Highly Qualified Workforce (Employment agency 12/2016) 8,082 people with an academic degree live in Giessen. There is a high proportion of academics living and working in Giessen (28.9 %)

Unemployed 8.3 % 3,719 Open positions 1,486 Inbound commuters / city (06/2016) 33,559 Outbound commuters / city (06/2016) 14,462

Land GE 50.00 – 70.00 €/m² developed Land MI 100.00 – 160.00 €/m² developed

Commercial firms 12/2016 6,145

Business registrations 2016 644 Business deregistrations 2016 636

Trade and services University clinic Giessen-Marburg GmbH, City of Giessen 4,300 Stadtwerke Gießen AG 800 Volksbank Mittelhessen eG 1,300 Sparkasse Gießen 500 Mittelhess. Druck- und Verlags-GmbH 400 Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH 300

Industrial and construction companies Tucker GmbH 650 Mettler-Toledo GmbH 500 Poppe GmbH 370 Werth Messtechnik GmbH 300 Canon Giessen GmbH 250 HEYLIGENSTAEDT Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH 230 FABER & SCHNEPP GmbH & Co. KG (Bau) 200

Medical industry PASCOE pharmazeutische Präparate GmbH Schebo.BiotechAG University clinic Giessen-Marburg GmbH

Metal and Electrical industry Canon Giessen GmbH Tucker GmbH HEYLIGENSTAEDT Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH Johannes Hübner - Fabrik elektrischer Maschinen GmbH Mettler-Toledo GmbH Werth Messtechnik GmbH

Company services in the area Research and Development Alcedis GmbH Milenia Biotec GmbH REUTEC Reinraum-, Energie- und Umwelttechnik GmbH

Primary / Elementary schools 15 Middle school 1 Secondary school 1 Grammar school/College preparatory high school 4 Comprehensive school 5 Schools for children with special needs 5 Vocational schools 6 Schools for adults 1

Without qualification 44 Secondary modern school qualification 145 Secondary school certificate 345 General higher education entrance qualification 878 Other qualifications 32

Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Statistics JLU) Number of students - summer semester 2017 total 26,392

Female 16,194 Overseas students 2,511

University of Applied Science Mittelhessen (Statistics THM) Number of students - summer semester 2017 total 16,937

Female 4,900 Overseas students 2,462 Campus Gießen 10,121

College for Police and Public Administration Training (Statistics HfPV) Number of students in Giessen 2017 547

Free Theological University (fth) Giessen (Statistics fth) Number of students Giessen 2017 114

Student density (2017) Highest student density in Germany (rd. 37,000 students) < Infrastructure Transport connections Motorway ring A480/485, connection for A5, A7, A45 IC station Giessen-Lützellinden airfield for light aircraft Frankfurt airport aprox. 45 minutes away

Employment agency Legal authorities Regional council City and district administration

Apartment rents 5.25 to 9.50 €/m² Land for residential complexes 90.00 to 700.00 €/m² Conduminiums 1,000.00 to 2,900.00 €/m² Single family homes 150,000. to 450,000 €

University clinic Giessen and Marburg GmbH and three acute care/general hospitals, a total of 1,800 beds - Residential geriatric homes with 600 admissions - 52 doctors for general medicine, 283 medical specialists - 25 pharmacies

Theatre Three wing city theatre, English Theatre Several small stages

Cinema 1 film centre with 4 halls, 1 Multiplex cinema with 9 halls Culture-/Creative industry Concert hall, art hall, art club, art trail, galleries, cultural centre, socio cultural centre and much more.

Museums Mathematics centre, Liebig-Museum, Oberhessisches Museum, Toy collection, Letter case book printing museum, Watering cans museum

- 88 sports clubs with approx. 22,000 members - 32 sports halls, gymnasiums - 23 football fields - several track and field facilities - 5 indoor and open pools Sources

Agentur für Arbeit Michael Bauer Research GmbH Bertelsmann Stiftung, Demographieberichte Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung, INKAR Freie Theologische Hochschule Gießen GMA - Gesellschaft für Markt- und Absatzforschung HA – Hessen Agentur GmbH Hessische Hochschule für Polizei und Verwaltung Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt IHK Gießen-Friedberg Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Messe Gießen GmbH Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen Universitätsklinikum Gießen-Marburg GmbH Universitätsstadt Gießen

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Katrina Friese Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Tim Lochmüller Mathematikum Gießen Sportamt Gießen Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen Rolf K. Wegst

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