FRANKFURTRHEINMAIN
IN FIGURES 2022

FRANKFURTRHEINMAIN
Vogelsberg District
GießenFulda
Limburg-Weilburg
Main-TaunusDistrict
Rheingau-TaunusDistrict

Wetterau District
Hochtaunus
DistrictFrankfurt
am Main
Wiesbaden

Mainz-Bingen
GroßGerau

Mainz

Main-Kinzig-District

Aschaffenburg
Darmstadt-Dieburg

Alzey-Worms

Darmstadt

Odenwald District
BergstraßeWorms

Offenbach am Main
Aschaffenburg (district)

Offenbach(district)

Miltenberg

International, competitive and well connected – the metropolitan region FrankfurtRheinMain has a lot to offer. 8.14% of the GDP of Germany are generated on an area that makes
up just 4.13% of the total size of the country. This is partially due to the large numberof ­national and international businesses situated in the region and partially due to the­increasing number of employees paying social insurance. Between 2018 and 2021 (as of30th June) their number rose by more than 76,000 to 2,468,448.
Numerous universities with more than a quarter of a million students and several scienceand research institutions guarantee a steady supply of young professionals and innovations.
Thanks to the centrally located international airport, more than 2.3 million tons of freight
and airmail reached the metropolitan area in 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic thepassenger volume in Frankfurt Airport remained with almost 25 million in 2021 lower than
before the pandemic (in comparison 2019: about 71 million passengers).
The region includes almost 12,000 km of roads, seven inland ports and 18 long distancestations.
Tourism is another important economic factor of the region. In 2021 there were almost
15 million overnight stays in FrankfurtRheinMain. Due to the pandemic the Frankfurt Fair a major centre of attraction - counted almost 270.000 visitors (in comparison 2019: morethan 1.8 million visitors).
FrankfurtRheinMain includes the districts of the Chambers of Commerce Aschaffenburg,Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Fulda, Gießen-Friedberg, Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern,
Limburg, Rheinhessen (Mainz), Offenbach am Main and Wiesbaden.

EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONSEuropean Central Bank (ECB)
European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB)European Space Operations Centre (ESOC)
European Meteorological Satellite Organisation (EUMETSAT)
European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)Source: State Chancellery Hesse
as of January 2022

MESSE FRANKFURTMESSE FRANKFURT GMBH HAS | 23 | FOREIGN SUBSIDIARIES AND JOINT­VENTURES | SIX | BRANCH OFFICES AND | 54 | SALES PARTNERS AROUNDTHE WORLD. MESSE FRANKFURT GMBH CORPORATE GROUP EMPLOYS | 2,449 |ACTIVE MEMBERS OF STAFF WORLDWIDE.

Trade fairs and exhibitions at the Frankfurt exhibition venue

9

Congresses and events at the Frankfurt exhibition venue

93

Exhibitors at the Frankfurt exhibition venue

11,519thereof exhibitors from outside Germany

9,194

Visitors at the Frankfurt exhibition venue

269,020

thereof visitors from outside Germany

162,624

Exhibition space net m2 (incl. special show space)

445,262

Events outside Germany

34

Source: Messe Frankfurt GmbHas of 2020

LEADING TRADE FAIRS IN FRANKFURTRHEINMAIN
Achema • Ambiente • Automechanika • Christmasworld • EUROBIKE • Frankfurt Book
Fair • Frankfurt Fashion Week (FFW) • hair & beauty • IMEX • International Leather
Goods Fair (ILM) • International Trade Fair for Home and Contract Textiles (Heimtextil) •International Trade Fair for HVAC + Water (ISH) • Light + Building • Paperworld •Prolight + Sound • Tendence • Texcare International
Source: FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH and own research
as of January 2022

TOURISM IN FRANKFURTRHEINMAINFRANKFURTRHEINMAIN
Number of opened hotels (December)

2,364

Bed capacity (December)

180,713

Total number of visitors (from January to December)

5,977,098

Visitors from abroad in percent

18.0

Total number of overnight stays (from January to December)

14,883,000

Average duration of stay (days)

2.5

Average bed occupancy rate in percent

20.9

Source: Statistical Office Hesse, Statistical Office Bavaria, Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate
as of December 2021

FRANKFURT AIRPORT (FRA) 2021

24.8 Mpassengers in 2021
passengers in 201970,560,987
record year

SHARE OF FRAFROM ALL GERMANCOMMERCIALALL GERMANFRANKFURTAIRPORTS IN
COMMERCIALAIRPORT (FRA)1PERCENTAIRPORTS2
Passengers

24,814,921

Airfreight|Airmail (tons)
Aircraft movements per year
Aircraft movements per day

32

78,562,913

2,317,882

43

5,405,841

261,92719

1,365,657

718

19

3,742

Source: Fraport AG,
2
Source: German Airports Association (ADV)
as of December 2021
1

TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTUREFRANKFURT­RHEINMAINFRANKFURTRHEINMAIN
Total of classified roads

11,878 km

including federal highways (Bundesautobahnen)

1864,723 km

Long distance stations

18Ports along the rivers Rhine and Main*

7

Federal highways excluding branches; Federal, state and district roads including branches* inland ports with cargo handling
Source: Hessen Mobil, Federal State Office for Mobility Rhineland-Palatinate, Government of Lower Franconia, District
Limburg-Weilburg, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Frankfurt am Main
Roads as of 1st January 2021; stations and ports as of February 2022

1AREA AND POPULATIONAREA IN
KM2POPU­LATION*POPULATIONDENSITY INHA­BITANTS PER KM2FOREIGN
NATIONALS
IN PERCENT

Germany

357,588

83,155,031

233

12.7

FrankfurtRheinMain

14,753

5,816,186

394

17.7

779

1,620,760

2,080

25.6

REGION

Main cities***Preliminary results based on the 2011 Census**Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Offenbach am Main and Wiesbaden
Source: Federal Statistical Office and the State Statistical Offices, 2022
Area and population as of 31st December 2020

LAND USAGEGERMANYFRANKFURTRHEINMAIN

in hectares in percent in hectares in percent
Settlement area

3,361,633

9.4

160,78110.9

including residential building area

1,393,867

3.9

74,2075.0

including industrial- andcommercial areas

624,4211.7

29,0182.0

including outdoor recreation
Roads and railways
Vegetation

526,775

1.5

23,532

1.6

1,807,619

5.1

104,861

7.1

29,770,020

83.3

1,187,349

80.5

including agricultural land

18,093,442

50.6

617,71541.9

including forestry

10,666,600

29.8

547,10837.1

Lakes and rivers

819,444

2.3

22,348

1.5

Total area

35,758,716

100.0

1,475,339

100.0

Source: Federal Statistical Office and the State Statistical Offices, 2022
as of 31st December 2020

CLUSTER IN FRANKFURTRHEINMAIN76
CLUSTERS AND NETWORKINITIATIVES STRENGTHENTHE COMPETITIVENESS OFFRANKFURTRHEINMAIN
Source: Wissensregion FrankfurtRheinMain
as of 2021

Automation (mechanical engineering|electronic|mecha­tronics) • Automotive industry (vehicle construction|supply­industry) • Chemicals|pharmaceutics|biotechnology •Consulting (law, tax and business consultancy) •Finance (banks|insurances) • Health (medical technology|life science|health) • Infor­mation and communication technology • Creative industries • Logistics andtransportation • Aerospace • Materials engineering •Energy and environmental engineering • House of­Finance | House of Digital Transformation | House ofLogistics and ­Mobility (HOLM) | House of Pharma &Healthcare | House of Clean Energy

GROSSVALUE ADDED (GVA)
IN EURO (MILLIONS)ECONOMIC BRANCHSHARE ATFRMIN PERCENTGERMANYFRANKFURT­RHEINMAIN

24,8964.2

1,040

Industry1

921,025

6.2

56,836

Manufacturing659,182

6.1

39,960Construction

166,800

7.1

11,8282,160,236

9.0

194,975Wholesale and retail trade, transportation, accommodation andfood service activities, informationand communication

654,015

9.8

64,170Financial and insurance activities, realestates activities

805,448

10.3

82,898Public and other service activities,
education, human health and social
work activities

700,773

6.8

47,906

3,106,157

8.1

252,851incl.

Agriculture, forestry and fishing

thereofServices2

Total
GVA per inhabitant in Euro

37,382

43,630German Classification of Economic Activities, Edition 2008 - sections B to F
2German Classification of Economic Activities, Edition 2008 - sections G to TMinor differences are due to rounding.
Source: Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, 2021
as of 2019
1LABOUR
MARKET FRANKFURTRHEINMAINANNUAL AVERAGE
2020
Unemployed persons
Unemployment rate1 in percent
Notified vacancies

2021
171,689

166,736

5.4

5.2

38,913

41,768Basis: all gainfully employed persons
Source: Federal Employment Agency

1

COMMUTERSFRANKFURTRHEINMAIN
Employees at place of residence

2,359,746

Employees at place of work

2,468,448

Inbound commuters

1,305,878

Outbound commuters

1,199,513

Source: Federal Employment Agency
as of 30th June 2021

EMPLOYEES SUBJECT TO SOCIALSECURITY CONTRIBUTIONSAT PLACE OF WORKECONOMIC BRANCH
Agriculture, forestry and fishing

30.06.2018 30.06.2019 30.06.2020 30.06.2021
9,523

9,805

9,708

10,348537,145547,122537,347

537,045

Manufacturing379,908

384,661

371,872

365,782

Construction

123,405

127,929

129,844

135,341

Wholesale and retail trade; repairof motor vehicles and motorcycles

327,479

331,744

332,076

332,891

Wholesale, retail trade and repairof motor vehicles and motorcycles

48,022

47,79547,491

46,817Wholesale trade122,134

123,691

123,767

123,544

Retail trade157,323

160,258

160,818

162,530

Transportation and storage

179,181

181,497

185,385

185,661

Accommodation and foodservice activities

81,426

83,25576,58071,774

thereofincl.

Industry1

Further services

1,257,373

1,284,811

1,294,022

1,330,713

Information and communication

108,040

112,783

115,976

119,962

Financial and insurance
activities

139,288

141,053

142,893

145,931

Real estate activities

24,791

25,67426,93028,232

Professional, scientific and technicalactivities; other administrative andsupport service activities

400,366

402,680

393,007403,811

Human health and social work
activities

283,047

290,623

297,101

306,852

Other service activities

301,841

311,998

318,115

325,925

thereof2

Not classifiable
Total

1720

22

16

2,392,144

2,438,254

2,435,140

2,468,448

German Classification of Economic Activities, Edition 2008 - sections B to F
German Classification of Economic Activities, Edition 2008 - sections J to U
Source: Federal Employment Agency

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UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES INFRANKFURT­RHEINMAINNUMBER OF
INSTITUTIONSSTUDENTS WINTERTERM 20|21Universities (public & private)6133,253

Universities and colleges of appliedsciences (public & private)

17

107,989

Theological universities

63,492Art colleges

31,828

Colleges for public administration

24,052

Source: Federal Statistical Officein the winter term 20|21

NUMBER OF CCI MEMBER COMPANIES1
CCI
AB2

CCI
DA2

CCI
F2

CCI
FD2

CCI
GI2

CCI
HU2

CCI
LM2

CCI
RH2

CCI
OF2

CCI
WI2

Agriculture,
fores­try and fishing

210

506

186

132

448

176

86341

61

218

Industry3

3,542 5,809 9,388 1,740 6,117 3,894 1,815 3,965 3,492 3,872incl.

ECONOMIC
BRANCH

Manufacturing

1,453 2,740 2,635

575 1,678 1,185

455 1,337 1,319 1,363

Construction

1,055 1,906 5,620

288 1,879 1,162

520 1,175 1,631 1,931

thereof

Wholesale andretail trade; repairof motor vehicles
and motorcycles

8,403 18,971 21,095 4,304 14,271 7,230 3,352 8,760 8,816 7,762

Wholesale,retail trade andrepair of motor
vehicles andmotorcycles

864 2,105 1,823

542 1,723

Wholesaletrade1,418 4,809 7,297

663 2,551 1,823

Retail trade

6,121 12,057 11,975 3,099 9,997 4,580 2,147 5,523 4,780 4,764

827

507 1,031

851

843

698 2,206 3,185 2,155

802 3,031 4,180

393 1,185

994

259 1,203 1,549 1,006

Accommodationand food service
activities

1,560 3,951 5,173

880 2,313 1,399

589 2,221 1,708 1,923

Further services4

15,256 37,300 68,692 7,340 25,726 13,848 6,719 23,685 19,035 20,959

thereofTransportationand storage

Informationand communication

1,390 4,500 8,319

674 2,384 1,350

570 2,658 2,409 2,352

Financial andinsurance
activities

1,356 3,299 6,406

867 2,041 1,191

690 2,139 1,662 1,586

Real estate
activities

1,645 3,494 8,854

780 2,013 1,461

565 3,381 2,115 2,007

Professional,scientific andtechnicalactivities; other 7,569 14,367 34,318 3,349 13,628 7,032 2,900 10,860 9,345 10,927
administrativeand support
service activities
Human healthand social
work activities

502 2,871 2,173

Other service
activities

2,794 8,769 8,622 1,404 4,481 2,309 1,811 3,855 2,916 3,318

Total5266 1,179

505183

792

588

769

29,773 69,568 108,714 14,789 50,060 27,541 12,820 43,331 34,661 35,740

CCI member companies include companies registered in the Commercial Register, small trades, permanent establishments and registered cooperative companies.
CCI AB = CCI Aschaffenburg, CCI DA = CCI Darmstadt Rhein Main Neckar, CCI F = CCI Frankfurt am Main, CCI FD =CCI Fulda, CCI GI = CCI Gießen-Friedberg, CCI HU = CCI Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern, CCI LM = CCI Limburg,
CCI RH = CCI Rhein­hessen, CCI OF = CCI Offenbach am Main, CCI WI = CCI Wiesbaden3
German Classification of Economic Activities, Edition 2008 - sections B to F
4
German Classification of Economic Activities, Edition 2008 - sections J to U
5
Minor differences are due to not classifiable companies.
Source: Chambers of Commerce and Industry in FrankfurtRheinMain
as of January 2022
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FOREIGNCOMPANIES IN FRANKFURTRHEINMAIN
TOP 10NUMBER OF COMPANIESUnited States of America

1,760Great Britain

1,337

Switzerland

1,183

People´s Republic of China

945

Luxembourg

614

Netherlands

576

France575

Austria

459

Japan

344

Italy

328

Source: FRM GmbH
Total Number of foreign companies settled in FRM until 01|2022

SELECTION OF PROMINENT MUSEUMS AND
CULTURAL SITESMUSEUMS
Kirchnerhaus Museum, Aschaffenburg (birthplace, documentation room of the expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner) • Johannisburg Palace Museum Aschaffenburg(artworks and historical references from six centuries)
Hessian State Museum, Darmstadt (houses various collections of history of art, cultural history, geology, palaeontology and zoology) • Horváth Centre, Groß-Gerau (aremini­scent of the suffering of 1,700 Jewish women inprisioned in the concentration
camp Natzweiler-Struthoff cellar rooms) • The Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen,
Rüssels­heim (cultural projects in the guise of exhibitions) • Stadt- und Industriemuseum, Rüssels­heim (presents cultural, social, economic, technical and political developmentfrom prehistoric and early historic period to the 20th century)
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History, Frankfurt|Main (the largest natural history
museum in Germany, one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of large dinosaurs inEurope) • Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt|Main (Germany’s oldest museum foundation, European art from the 14th century to the present) • Liebighaus Sculpture Museum,Frankfurt (one of the world’s most prominent museums specialising in sculpture) • Schirn
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (exhibitions devoted to contemporary stances in art and art of themodern era) • Hessenpark Open Air Museum, Neu-Anspach (the history of Hessian village
life over the past centuries is represented in more than a hundred historical buildings)
Schloss Fasanerie Museum, Fulda (baroque palace, summer residence of the prince-bishops of Fulda)
The World of the Celts at the Glauberg (celtic burials from the 5th century BC)
Museum House of the Brothers Grimm, Steinau an der Straße
Selters Water Museum, Selters
Gutenberg Museum, Mainz (one of the world‘s oldest museums for printing and script) •Landesmuseum Mainz (collection of cultural history and art ranging from prehistory tocontemporary art, one of the oldest museums in Germany)
Deutsches Ledermuseum, Offenbach|Main (Collection of Applied Art, Ethnological Collection,
Shoe Museum, more than 30,000 items, from six millenia and five continents)
Museum Wiesbaden (one of the most important art collections in Germany, especially of
the 19th and 20th centuries)

ARCHITECTURAL LANDMARKS
Johannisburg Palace, Aschaffenburg (until 1803 the second residence of the archbishop-electors of Mainz) • Pompejanum, Aschaffenburg (idealised replica of a Roman Villa) • Mespelbrunn Castle (in the renaissance style build water castle from the 15th century)
Residential palace with Palace museum (old renaissance palace with baroque wings, built
by Remy de la Fosse between 1716 and 1727) • Auerbach Castle ruins along the Berg­
strasse (built in the 13th century)
Frankfurt Cathedral and Skyline (observation deck Main Tower) • St Paul‘s Church, Frankfurt (seat for the first German national assembly, which provided the basis for Germany´spresent-day constitution) • Dom-Römer Quarter, The New Frankfurt Old Town • Peter
Behrens Building (jewel of expressionist architecture at the Industriepark Höchst) • Former
I.G.-Farben-Ensemble and Headquarters of United States Army in Europe , Frankfurt|Main(the complex now houses the Westend Campus of the Goethe university) • Bad Homburg
Castle (until 1866 residence for Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, later summer residence forthe kings and emperor of Prussia) • Kronberg Castle (a change from a defensive structure
to a residential castle can be observed in this impressive example of medieval architecture)
Baroque Quarter, Fulda • Fulda Cathedral St. Salvator • Residence, Fulda • St. Michael‘sChurch, Fulda (one of the oldest churches in Germany)
Sprudelhof, Bad Nauheim (former spa, the largest coherent Jugendstil ensemble in Europe)
Schloss Philippsruhe, Hanau (oldest baroque castle based on French baroque castles eastof the Rhine, historical museum)
Limburg Cathedral (one of the most complete examples of late Romanesque architecture)
St. Martin‘s Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St. Stephan (choir windows by MarcChagall), Mainz • St. Peter‘s Cathedral and the Jewish cemetery “Holy Sands”, Worms (theoldest existing Jewish cemetery in Europe)
Einhard’s Basilica, Seligenstadt (one of the most significant churches of the Carolingian era in Germany)
Wiesbaden Kurhaus and Colonnades (with length of 129 meters the longest columned hallin Europe) • Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Elizabeth (built after the style of Cathedralof Christ the Saviour in Moscow) • Eberbach Monastery, Eltville am Rhein (former Cister­
cian monastery, one of the most significant architectural heritage ­sites of R
­ omanesqueand early gothic architecture in Europe) • Basilica of St. Ägidius, ­Oestrich-Winkel (the­oldest church in Rheingau, besides Eberbach monastery church)
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE
Grube Messel (former oil shale opencast; excellently preserved fossils) • Mathildenhöhe,Darmstadt (remarkable ensemble of Jugendstil buildings) • Lorsch Abbey (former Benedictine
abbey; a centre of power, spirituality and culture in the Holy Roman Empire until well into
the High Middle Ages) • Limes (frontiers of the Roman Empire) • upper middle rhine valley(outstanding monuments; epitome of Rhine romanticism) • The Golden Bull (from 1356 to1806, the most important constitutional document of the Holy Roman Empire; regulated election and coronation of the Roman-German kings) • Constitutio Antoniniana (edict issued in
212|213 that granted Roman citizenship to all free inhabitants of the Roman Empire)
UNESCO GEOPARK
Bergstraße-Odenwald (size 3,800 km²)
Sources: German Commission for UNESCO e. V., Arbeitskreis Tourismus FrankfurtRheinMain, KulturRegion Frankfurt­
RheinMain gGmbH, own research
as of 2022

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