| City of Lehrte |
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| General |
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District
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Special location features¹ | Lehrte - the town seeped in railway history
Lehrte borders to the east with the state capital Hannover. |
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Business sites, real estates | | Business sites: | 9 |
View | | | Real estates: | 2 |
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| Population |
Population²
| | | | | | | | | | Inhabitants: | 43,339 | | 21,977 |
(50.7 %)
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(49.3 %)
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Population density²
| | Inhabitants/km²: | 341.1 |  |
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| Infrastructure |
| Educational institutions² | | Elementary schools: | 10 | | Secondary schools: | 2 | | Secondary modern schools: | 2 | | Grammar schools: | 47
(Region Hannover)
| | Special schools: | 48
(Region Hannover)
| | Vocational schools: | 40
(Region Hannover)
|  | Other educational facilities¹:
| All school types: 9 elementary schools, secondary and secondary modern schools, Lehrte grammar school, vocational college/technical grammar school for business and technology, adult education college, school of music, school of nursing |  |
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| Health care¹ |  | Other medical health facilities:
| Medical facilities - including Lehrte Hospital - exist. |  |
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| Leisure/culture/sport¹ | Cultural facilities:
| Forum with events from the Landesbühne Hannover theatre and touring theatres, readings, concerts, Lehrte Blues Festival, Municipal Art Gallery |  | Sport facilities:
| Lehrte City Run, numerous sports complexes and grounds, tennis halls, riding halls, swimming baths, stadia, shooting ranges, archery range, indoor swimming pool, heated open-air swimming baths and forest baths |  | | Special amenities on offer: | Social matters and healthcare 
| Sports and games 
| Culture and leisure 
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| Transport¹ | | | | | | | | Motorway | A 2 | | 1 km | | | Motorway | A 7 | | 5 km | | | International airport | Hannover - Langenhagen | | 18 km | | | Rail station | Lehrte | | 1 km | | |  | Comment on the transport infrastructure:
| Favourable transport situation for the A 2 motorway (access points Lehrte and Lehrte Ost) and the A 7 |  | | Special infrastructurer: | Transport infrastructure 
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| Economics |
Economic strength²  | | | | | | | Gross domestic product 2007:
| 33,707 | 114 % | |  | | | | | | | Gross value added 2007 | | - Production sector: | 73,251 | 112 % | | - Service sector: | 52,558 | 101 % | |  | | | | | | Net revenue from local business tax 2009:
| 274.67 | 107 % | | Municipal share of income tax 2009:
| 312.41 | 118 % | |  |
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Employment² 
| | | | | | | | | | | Employed persons: | 10,386 | 4,247 |
(40.9 %)
| 6,139 |
(59.1 %)
| | Change over previous year: | +96 |
(+0.9 %)
| | | Employment rate: | 56.5 | % | | Employed persons acc. to economic sectors: |  |  | | | | | | | Commuters: | 6,464 | 11,270 | -4,806 | | |  |
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Unemployment³  | |
Major companies¹ | |
Collection rates¹  | | Local business tax: | 395 % | | | Local property tax A: | 350 % | | | Local property tax B: | 350 % | |  |
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| Business promotion schemes¹ | Advice on funding and subsidies:
Unternehmerbüro in der Region Hannover (Enterprise Office)
Frau Ingrid Ruff
Prinzenstr. 12
D-30159 Hannover
Tel. +49 (0)800/616 0 616
E-mail: ingrid.ruff@region-hannover.de |  | | Link to promotion info: | Hannover Region Business Enterprise Office 
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Business promotion agencies¹ | |