Every year, a city’s worth of people — the size of Wiesbaden — moves to Germany. The influx poses a serious threat, impacting housing, the welfare system and, above all, public safety. Among migrants, crime rates are disproportionately high.

The scale of Germany’s migration policy is reflected in stark numbers. “Every year, a population the size of a major city migrates to Germany,” experts warn, illustrating the magnitude of mass immigration.

Wiesbaden, as a benchmark city

The population of the Federal Republic of Germany increases each year by roughly the number of inhabitants in Wiesbaden, Erfurt or Gelsenkirchen.

According to figures from the Federal Statistical Office, around 1.9 million people arrived in Germany in 2023, while about 1.3 million left — which translated to a net increase of more than 660,000.

Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, with a population of roughly 300,000, recorded 3,948 violent crimes in 2024, including 2,483 cases of bodily harm and 279 robberies, according to police data. Street crime also remained high, with 4,518 incidents reported. The Wiesbaden police do not publish separate figures for sexual offences, but across the wider West Hesse police district, around 400 such cases were recorded.

Of the 20,604 offences registered within the West Hesse police jurisdiction, an estimated 8,000 to 9,000 occurred in Wiesbaden, making the city the crime hotspot of the region.

Nationwide statistics show that the proportion of foreign nationals involved in violent, robbery- and sex-related crimes is strikingly high — between 40 and 60 percent — even though they make up only about 15 percent of the total population.

And as it is not the inhabitants of a city like Wiesbaden, but rather the influx from large Middle Eastern cities arriving in Germany, the situation continues to deteriorate sharply.

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Immigration from Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey

The highest number of offenders are young men under 30, the majority of whom are migrants. Social factors are also playing a role: poverty, lack of integration, Islamist prejudices, hopelessness and cultural conflict.

As migration rises, so too does the number of foreign suspects — a link clearly visible in the police crime statistics.

According to research b yNIUS, nearly 400,000 people arrived in Germany in 2024 from non-EU countries via the asylum system, family reunification and the Western Balkans regulation. Most came from Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey. While the federal government continues to speak of “skilled workers”, in reality, a long-term, predominantly welfare-dependent migration pattern is taking shape.

Providing housing puts host country under heavy strain

The pressure is particularly visible in housing. In a city of this size, the average living space per person is just 41 square metres. In Wiesbaden, with its 300,000 residents, that equates to a total of 12.3 million square metres of living space.

Each year, Germany would have to create that much new housing to accommodate a Wiesbaden-sized influx of newcomers.

The social costs are also severe — especially with regard to citizens’ income (Burgergeld), as the high expenditure associated with this welfare payment is causing growing social tensions across Germany.

“Overall, SGB II [the provision covering citizens’ income] expenditure in 2023 exceeded 300 million euros, compared with around 272 million in 2022. The increase is primarily due to higher regulatory demands, housing and energy costs (e.g. living cost allowances, KdU, BuT), as well as greater administrative expenses,” Wiesbaden’s annual report stated.

These figures hint at the enormous strain placed on the welfare state when, year after year, a population the size of a large city like Wiesbaden migrates into the country.

Germany is importing new social burdens

Germany grows by an entire major city every year — without the infrastructure, housing capacity or integration capability needed to sustain it. The figures from Wiesbaden serve as a microcosm of the wider nation: rising welfare expenditure, an overstretched housing market, persistently high crime rates and a disproportionately large number of foreign suspects.