Social status index (MSS 2025)
View on the mapMonitoring Social Urban Development 2025: aggregated overall index from status and dynamics indicators per LOR planning area (around 7,500 residents). A structural aggregate, not an assessment of individual addresses or people. Source: Senate Department for Urban Development Berlin.
Structural aggregate data per planning area (around 7,500 residents). They do not represent individual addresses or people. As of: SenStadt MSS 2025. View source
Source
- Provider
- gdi.berlin.de
- Licence
- dl-de/zero
- Data as of
- December 2024
- Objects
- 542
Values
- Scale
- Status high / medium / low / very low combined with dynamics positive / stable / negative. Low status does not mean “bad Kiez”, but reflects structural differences in income, employment and education.
Calculation
Monitoring Social Urban Development 2025: overall index from two axes per LOR planning area. The status index (very low to high) weights income, employment and education. The dynamics index (negative, stable, positive) shows the change compared with the previous MSS cycle. Calculated by the Senate Department for Urban Development Berlin.
- Aggregation
- LOR planning area
- Maintenance
- Senate Department for Urban Development Berlin
- Update frequency
- roughly every two years (MSS cycle)
Gaps in coverage
- Planning areas with fewer than 300 residents or an outlier profile remain unclassified.
- Aggregate data for around 7,500 residents each. Micro-locations disappear in the average.
Not included
- Individual indicators such as the unemployment rate or the rate of welfare receipt are deliberately not shown in the address view. At address level they would be sharper and more stigmatising than the aggregate.
- No rating as a “good” or “bad” Kiez. Low status reflects structural differences in income, employment and education, not housing quality.