A picture says more than thousand words, and thematic maps more than a table. With the interactive maps contents "Interaktive Regionalkarten Hessen" (Java Applet) the national statistic office offers a new service in it’s Online range. Data can be investigated faster, regional comparisons between municipalities or counties thus become additionally and noticeably simplified.
The interactive maps are available for approx. 50 indicators of the various ranges of official statistics. These informations of living, environmental and economic conditions at the municipal, county, regional centre and state levels can be retrieved.
Apart of three exceptions all indicators in the regional maps are taken form the "Hessische Gemeindestatistik". The publication "Hessische Gemeindestatistik" comes out yearly (printversion: DIN A4, 200 pages, 16,00 Euro; online-version: Excel, free).