People in Leipzig are especially happy with their parks and green areas (87 per cent), while the city also rates very highly in terms of facilities for children and senior citizens. In addition, more than 60% of the local residents surveyed regard their city as modern and up and coming.
In the survey 1,500 residents of 15 major German cities were asked to rate a number of locational and image factors, for example the local transport facilities available in their area or the public image of a specific district. The survey covered residents of Hamburg, Bremen, Hannover, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne, as well as Frankfurt am Main, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and Munich.
Feel-good factors
The most concrete feel-good factors turned out to be 'positive image and safety'. People in Germany also like their surroundings to be green, with around 86 per cent preferring to live in the parts of the city with a great deal of parkland. Fashionable residential surroundings are important to only 20 per cent. Criteria such as the accessibility of the work place (65.2 per cent) or the availability of kindergartens and schools (38.5 per cent) are also less important.
In the final analysis it is the right mixture which is decisive: a lot of green areas, a positive urban image, generous facilities for children and senior citizens and good infrastructure - this is what the residents of Leipzig like best about their city.
About the survey
The survey was implemented by the GfK market research organisation on behalf of Immonet, the online real-estate portal. The random survey covered 1500 men and women aged 18 and upwards and was held between 18 July and 28 July 2013. The data was collected through an online survey.