Stuttgart, 08/28/2021, report: editorial staff There are 1,101 municipalities in Baden-Württemberg, nine of which are urban districts and 94 large district towns, and 313 municipalities use the designation “city”.
According to the results of the debt statistics of the State Statistical Office, only 97 were debt-free as of December 31, 2020, which means that neither the core budget nor the municipalities’ own operations have loans, cash advances or securities debts1 in the public and non-public sectors. Baden-Baden is not one of the debt-free communities.
The municipalities with a debt-free core budget and debt-free own businesses are predominantly municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants, in the majority even with less than 5,000 inhabitants. The debt-free communities with over 10,000 inhabitants include the city of Bietigheim-Bissingen in the Ludwigsburg district – with 43,296 inhabitants the largest debt-free community – as well as Erbach in the Alb-Donau district, Lorch in the Ostalb district and Engen in the Konstanz district. A further 55 municipalities had no “zero debt”, but their per capita debt was less than 100 euros per inhabitant.
With a debt of the municipalities and their own businesses of just over 14.1 billion euros, the average per capita debt is 1,271 euros. The city districts have a higher per capita debt of 1,797 euros per inhabitant than the municipalities belonging to the district with 1,150 euros per inhabitant. The latter also shows that per capita debt tends to increase as the number of inhabitants increases, but the range within a municipality size class can be very large. In Baden-Württemberg, 300 municipalities have a higher per capita debt burden than the national average. Of these, 102 municipalities are in debt with more than 2,000 euros per inhabitant, including numerous health resorts and tourist communities.
In the Rastatt district, only Muggensturm is debt-free.
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