It appears from this Table that the Central Germany group has a 
remarkably low index number ; it is true that the group contains two very 
small towns—Stassfurt and Oschersleben, but it also includes Magdeburg, with 
its quarter of a million inhabitants, and Brunswick with a population of 
136,000, and both of these large towns have low rent index numbers. The 
highest rent level is shown by the South Germany group ; this includes 
Stuttgart with an index number of 97, three towns with from 62 to 67, 
Nuremberg with 53, and Mülhausen with 48. The Rhineland-Westphalia 
Hardware group, which comes very close to the South Germany group, shows a 
very much narrower range ; Düsseldorf is high, with an index number of 79, 
but for three towns the range is from 62 to 68, and Bochum and Remscheid are 
close together with 57 and 56 respectively. The index number for the North 
Sea Ports represents simply the mean of Hamburg with 66 and Bremen 
with 52. The towns of the Rhineland-Westphalia Textile group all come within 
the very narrow range of 52 to 57, and form practically two pairs—Elberfeld and 
Barmen with 57 each, and Aachen and Crefèld with 53 and 52 respectively. In 
the Silesia group Breslau has an index number of 56, and Königshütte one of 47. 
Of the Baltic Ports, Königsberg, which is a fortified city incapable of much 
expansion, has a comparatively high index number (62), whilst Dantzig and 
Stettin are close together with 49 and 46 respectively . The range of the Saxony 
towns is fairly wide, from 54 to 38, but three fall within the narrow limits of 
54 to 51, and the other two have index numbers of 40 and 38 respectively. 
The towns may also be grouped according txp the number of their 
inhabitants, and in the following Table the mean rent index numbers are given 
for each population group. 
Rent Index Numbers for Population Groups. 
Population Group. 
No. of Towns 
Nil* 
10 
Mean Rent Index 
Numbers. 
Berlin (2,040,000) 
Other Towns with populations exceeding 400,000 ... 
Towns with populations from 300,000 to 400,000 ... 
„ „ 200,000 „ 300,000 ... 
„ „ 100,000 „ 200,000 ... 
„ „ under 100,000 
100 
58 
59 
55 
47 
* The only German town falling within this population group is Frankfurt-on-Main, 
which is not largely industrial, and therefore was not investigated. 
Though this table shows on the whole a fall in the mean level of rents as 
we pass from the larger to the smaller towns, yet the range within each group 
is as a rule extremely wide, as will be seen from Table B. attached to this General 
Report, in which the towns are grouped according to population. In the group 
of towns with populations of over 400,000 the range is comparatively narrow, 
from 51 for Leipzig to 66 for Hamburg ; but in the group with populations 
between 200,000 and 300,000 the range is remarkably wide, being from 40 for 
Chemnitz to 79 for Düsseldorf and 97 for Stuttgart ; four fall within the narrow 
range 52 to 62, whilst three have index numbers below these limits and two 
above. In the next group (with populations between 100,000 and 200,000) the 
extreme range is from 37 to 68, with six out of the ten towns falling within 
the narrow limits of 52 to 57. Finally, the group of smallest towns show a 
range of from 28 to 67, and whilst four out of the seven are within the limits 
28 to 47, the other three are within the range 56 to 67. On the whole, 
therefore, it appears to be impossible to relate the varying rent levels of the 
towns closely to differences in population, although there is a broad distinction 
between the larger and the smaller towns.