Market map · Germany

Public, community & associations in Germany_

As of 4 November 2026, 258,040 public, community & associations companies are based in Germany: 5,308 with 51+ employees, 2,436 hiring right now, led by nonprofit civic associations and Berlin.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
258,040
51+ employees
5,308 · 2%
Hiring now
2,436 · 791 new in 30 d
Largest segment
Nonprofit civic associations · 127,410
Top city
Berlin · 9,473
Running cold outbound
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258,040public, community & associations companies in Germany
5,308with 51+ employees
2,436hiring on their own career site today
791opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Public, community & associations in Germany, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
Nonprofit civic associations
127,410 · 559
Amateur sports clubs
69,004 · 246
Charitable foundations
31,038 · 458
Membership associations & unions
25,158 · 439
Churches congregations
21,987 · 150
Public programmes & agencies
14,414 · 849
Research institutes & think tanks
9,196 · 136
Municipal government
4,860 · 35
Justice & public safety
612 · 5
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
137,344 · 22
2-10 employees
104,457 · 1,104
11-50 employees
10,931 · 392
51-200 employees
2,927 · 307
201-500 employees
1,151 · 241
501-1000 employees
608 · 170
1001-5000 employees
464 · 156
5001-10000 employees
55 · 17
10,001+ employees
103 · 27
By city
companiesshare
Berlin
9,4734%
Hamburg
4,3932%
München
4,2202%
Köln
3,4171%
Stuttgart
3,1181%
Frankfurt am Main
2,4691%
Hannover
2,0991%
Düsseldorf
1,8461%
Bonn
1,6601%
Dresden
1,6301%
Leipzig
1,4341%
Bremen
1,3071%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest public, community & associations companies in Germany

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

Hessisches Ministerium der FinanzenGovernment agencies & ministries · Wiesbaden10,001+ employeesLandeshauptstadt DüsseldorfMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Düsseldorf10,001+ employeesHessisches Ministerium des Innern für Sicherheit und HeimatschutzGovernment agencies & ministries · Wiesbaden10,001+ employeesLandeshauptstadt DresdenMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Dresden10,001+ employeesStadt KölnMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Köln10,001+ employeesEvangelische Landeskirche in WürttembergEvangelical & independent churches · Stuttgart10,001+ employeesErzbistum München und FreisingCatholic parishes · München501-1000 employeesDiakonie Schleswig-HolsteinLocal social welfare foundations · Rendsburg10,001+ employeesBistum AugsburgCatholic parishes · Augsburg10,001+ employeesCaritas München und OberbayernLocal social welfare foundations10,001+ employeesArbeiter-Samariter-Bund Deutschland e. V.International relief charities · Köln10,001+ employeesEvangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in NorddeutschlandEvangelical & independent churches · Hamburg10,001+ employeesDeutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)Government agencies & ministries · Hamburg10,001+ employeesPlan International Deutschland e.V.Child sponsorship charities · Hamburg10,001+ employeesVerband Christlicher Pfadfinder*innenScout groups · Kassel5001-10000 employeesStadt MannheimMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Mannheim5001-10000 employeesStadt BochumMunicipal authorities & general public bodies5001-10000 employeesStadt BielefeldMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Siegburg5001-10000 employeesStadt AachenMunicipal authorities & general public bodies5001-10000 employeesStadt EssenMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Essen5001-10000 employees
258,040 public, community & associations companies in Germany; 2,436 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of public, community & associations in Germany

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258,040 public, community & associations companies are based in Germany: 5,308 with 51 or more employees, 2,436 hiring right now (791 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by nonprofit civic associations and Berlin. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/community_associations_public/germany)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Public, community & associations in Germany: questions

How many public, community & associations companies are there in Germany?

258,040 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 5,308 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to public, community & associations?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which public, community & associations companies in Germany are hiring?

2,436 have an open role on their own career site today and 791 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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