According to an analysis, people in the district of Leipzig can afford the most in Saxony. Nowhere else in the state were incomes adjusted for the cost of living higher in 2022, according to an analysis of data from the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW). According to this, people had a real income of 27,474 euros per capita. This puts the district in 105th place out of 400 in Germany.
Saxony below average in a nationwide comparison
In a nationwide comparison of purchasing power, however, the Free State of Saxony performs rather below average. Saxony's districts and independent cities tend to rank in the lower midfield in the nationwide ranking.
Only the district of Leipzig and Meißen (157th place), Zwickau (177th place) and Bautzen (196th place) make it into the top half of the ranking. While nominal, i.e. unadjusted, incomes in Saxony are comparatively low, the Free State can often score points with its low cost of living. The Vogtland district, for example, takes first place in the Germany-wide price level.
