# Commuting across the old border: Share of employees living in a state who work on the other side of the former inner-German border (Berlin excluded)
# Source: Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Pendlerverflechtungen der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten nach Ländern, Deutschland, Stichtag 30.06.2025 (Sheet "30.6.2025" (workplace × residence by state)), https://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/Statistikdaten/Detail/202506/iiia6/beschaeftigung-pendler-blxbl/blxbl-d-0-202506-xlsx.xlsx?__blob=publicationFile&v=1, accessed 2026-11-07, Free to use with source attribution; own calculations marked as such
# Compiled by Germany Divided, CC BY 4.0. Side: former East/West by 1949-1990 border; Berlin shown separately.
snapshot,reference_year,level,code,name,side,value_%
now,30.6.2025,aggregate,east,Former East (excl. Berlin),east,6.9
now,30.6.2025,aggregate,west,Former West (excl. Berlin),west,0.4
now,30.6.2025,aggregate,germany,Germany,,1.4
now,30.6.2025,land,10,Saarland,west,0.2
now,30.6.2025,land,12,Brandenburg,east,4.7
now,30.6.2025,land,13,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,east,8.9
now,30.6.2025,land,14,Sachsen,east,5
now,30.6.2025,land,15,Sachsen-Anhalt,east,8.5
now,30.6.2025,land,16,Thüringen,east,10.4
now,30.6.2025,land,01,Schleswig-Holstein,west,0.9
now,30.6.2025,land,02,Hamburg,west,0.7
now,30.6.2025,land,03,Niedersachsen,west,0.8
now,30.6.2025,land,04,Bremen,west,0.6
now,30.6.2025,land,05,Nordrhein-Westfalen,west,0.3
now,30.6.2025,land,06,Hessen,west,0.6
now,30.6.2025,land,07,Rheinland-Pfalz,west,0.3
now,30.6.2025,land,08,Baden-Württemberg,west,0.2
now,30.6.2025,land,09,Bayern,west,0.4