{
  "query": {
    "country": "DE",
    "town": "München"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "EUR",
    "unit": "per m2 per month",
    "value": 12.97,
    "measure": "median",
    "median": 12.97,
    "typical_low": 10.62,
    "typical_high": 15.26,
    "min": 7.81,
    "max": 17.16
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2022-05-15",
    "to": "2022-05-15"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "official_statistic",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "median",
    "reference_period": "census date 15 May 2022",
    "note": "Census snapshot of 15 May 2022: the average net cold rent (without heating and service charges) of rented dwellings in each 1 km square, all sizes and types together; rents have risen since. Median and 10th-90th percentile are calculated by ProofPrice over the squares within 8 km of the city centre, not weighted by the number of dwellings."
  },
  "as_of": "2026-10-23T12:10:58.282Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "de-zensus-rents",
    "name": "Zensus 2022: average net cold rent (Nettokaltmiete) per m2 in 1 km grid cells",
    "publisher": "Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), Zensus 2022",
    "licence": "Destatis copyright terms for its website content and downloadable products: \"Die Weiterverwendung ist sowohl für nicht gewerbliche als auch gewerbliche Zwecke erlaubt\"; \"Eine Quellenangabe ist jedoch erforderlich\"; Destatis must be named as publisher and changes or calculations marked ('eigene Berechnung'). The Zensus 2022 grid data are offered \"zur freien Nutzung (mit Namensnennung) als OpenData\". Licence read 23 Oct 2026 by the Licence Checker.",
    "licence_url": "https://www.destatis.de/DE/Service/Impressum/copyright-allgemein.html",
    "attribution": "Quelle: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), Zensus 2022; eigene Berechnung (Median der 1-km-Gitterzellen um das Stadtzentrum).",
    "url": "https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Zensus2022/_inhalt.html"
  },
  "method": "Germany rents: Destatis publishes the average net cold rent per m2 of rented dwellings (Zensus 2022, census date 15 May 2022) for every 1 km square of the European grid. We take the squares whose centre lies within a few kilometres of the city centre and report the median and the 10th-90th percentile of their averages. It is a census snapshot of existing contracts, not today's asking or new-letting rents; the squares are not weighted by the number of dwellings.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In München the typical average net cold rent in the census was €12.97 per m2 a month (middle of the 1 km squares within 8 km of the centre; 10th-90th percentile €10.62 to €15.26), at the census of 15 May 2022. This is the rent in existing contracts, not an asking rent. Zensus 2022, Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis); median calculated by ProofPrice from the published 1 km grid.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "country_name": "Germany",
    "place": {
      "name": "München",
      "radius_km": 8,
      "centre": {
        "lat": 48.137,
        "lon": 11.575
      }
    },
    "census_date": "2022-05-15",
    "range_basis": "10th and 90th percentile of the 1 km square averages around the centre (district spread), not of individual rents",
    "lowest_and_highest_square": {
      "lowest": 7.81,
      "highest": 17.16
    },
    "what_this_is": "Average net cold rent per m2 of rented dwellings (existing contracts) in the 2022 census, by 1 km grid square. Not an asking rent, not a new-letting rent.",
    "attribution_notice": "Quelle: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), Zensus 2022; eigene Berechnung (Median der 1-km-Gitterzellen um das Stadtzentrum)."
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_cf9be83775a58d0305f0",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-23T12:10:58.282Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "official_statistic",
    "label": "Official published median",
    "meaning": "One average or median that a statistics office or regulator publishes for a reference period: it describes a group, not a distribution, and says nothing about any single price."
  },
  "reliability": "official_median_no_count",
  "data_as_of": "2022-05-15",
  "data_age_days": 1622,
  "suggestions": [
    "This is one published figure (an average, median, index or listed price) with no record count: use it as a reference point, not as a range of what individuals paid.",
    "For a decision on a specific job or purchase, ask for an itemised quote.",
    "The newest data is over a year old: prices may have moved, so check for a more recent source."
  ]
}