Overview
- Federal Justice Ministry statistics released via a parliamentary query confirm 32,358 enforced evictions in 2024, up about seven percent from 2023, with officials indicating most cases stem from unpaid rent.
- North Rhine-Westphalia recorded the most evictions in absolute terms with 10,118, followed by Bavaria (2,979), Lower Saxony (2,639) and Saxony (2,367).
- By population, Bremen remains the hotspot with about 7.2 evictions per 10,000 residents, ahead of Saxony-Anhalt (6.16) and Berlin (6.15).
- Trends diverged by state: increases were reported in Hamburg (up more than 16% to 1,091), Schleswig-Holstein (up over 9% to 1,207) and Saxony (up by about 90 cases), while Brandenburg, Bremen, Hesse and Thuringia saw slight declines and Saarland was unchanged at 312.
- Die Linke called the rise a social crisis and urged a ban on evictions that result in homelessness, stronger tenant protections and special safeguards for people over 70, as concern over enforcement safety grew following a bailiff’s fatal stabbing during a November eviction in Saarland.