Profile of Müllheim Drucken
Excellent conditions for businesses have turned the City of Muellheim into a highly valued location for successful businesses as well as good living. The city is the center of one of the fastest growing regions in the whole Upper-Rhine Valley Region. A wide variety of investment projects profit from an outstanding infrastructure, the strategic location between Black Forest and Upper Rhine Valley and from the direct vicinity of important markets of France and Switzerland.

Being the center of  the „Markgraeflerland“ Muellheim represents the most important location in the region  in terms of education, administration and commerce.  As economic centre of the region it has a catchment area reaching far over the cities limits. The strong business and administrative infrastructure make the city an important focal point.

The development  of both, of persons living and working in Muellheim is characterized by strong growth when compared to national and regional figures. Currently more then 18,500 inhabitants and additional 2,000 members of the German-French Army-Brigarde are living in Muellheim. Predictions show further growth for Muellheim and ist seven attached communities.

As a city with outstanding family-friendliness, Muellheim accounts for 5,000 pupils and has capacities for more than 600 children in kindergardens and crèches – far more than average.

Very moderate local taxes contribute to the financial wealth of our local companies and are also fostering the ongoing high rate of investments, reinvestment and expansion of our local companies.




Key figures:


Inhabitants (Sept. 2009): 18.357

Size (surface): 57.91 km²

Active enterprises: ca. 970 active companies and enterprises

Education: 8 general-education schools
with 3,617 pupils (school year 2009)

  Markgräfler Gymnasium (secondary school):
ca. 1,200 pupils

  Technical Gymnasium (secondary school):
149 pupils (as of 13.04.2010)

  Wirtschafts-Gymnasium (secondary school):
253 puplis (as of 13.04.2010)

Persons
employed (2008):
Total: 6,370, of which
2,270 in manufacturing (only Muellheim)

Surface (2008): Buildings and Infrastructure:       15.9%

  Agriculture:                               45.2%

  Wood:                                       37.9%

Purchasing Power: 23,365 €/inh. (compared PP in Freiburg: 21,742 €/inh.)

(Source: Statistical Office of Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Persons employed (2008):