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Download geodata for North Rhine-Westphalia
Official open geodata for North Rhine-Westphalia — ALKIS, DGM1, DOM1, DOP, bDOM and LiDAR — the same data as in the state geoportals, but uniformly processed and ready to download.
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Ready-made files from this server — one click, one download, uniform nationwide in EPSG:25832.
🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
9,387,373 parcels, 12,514,214 buildings, 4,999,892 land-use polygons.
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | 17.87 GB |
| Parcels only | 6.16 GB |
| Building footprints only | 6.41 GB |
| Land use only | 5.25 GB |
Source: © Geobasis NRW · Licence dl-de/zero-2-0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
35,548 tiles of 1 km² each (73.61 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (35,548 tiles, JSON) | 73.61 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
36,644 tiles of 1 km² each (90.66 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (36,644 tiles, JSON) | 90.66 GB |
Directly from the state
There is no copy of these datasets here: the tables link per tile to the server of the responsible state agency.
✈️ DOP — Digital orthophotos: current aerial imagery directly from the state agencies
35,860 tiles, period 2022-06-15–2026-03-05.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (35,860 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (72)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
35,860 tiles, period 2022-06-15–2026-03-05.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (35,860 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
35,860 tiles, period 2020-11-18–2025-02-22.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (35,860 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show statistics
Figures & areas in North Rhine-Westphalia
Calculated from the ALKIS data itself — not taken from official statistics.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Forest area | 848,075 ha |
| Buildings | 10,042,968 |
| Residential land | 249,430 ha |
| of which built-up | 22.7 % |
| Parcel size (median) | 536 m² |
“of which built-up” is the share of residential land covered by buildings — a measure of building density. The median tells how large a typical parcel is (historical partible inheritance makes parcels in the south-west much smaller than in the north-east).
Land use in North Rhine-Westphalia
What the land is used for — summed from the ALKIS land-use polygons, not taken from official statistics. Shares refer to the state area of 34,097 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 15,846 km² | 46.5 % |
| Forest | 8,480 km² | 24.9 % |
| Residential land | 2,494 km² | 7.3 % |
| Road transport | 1,318 km² | 3.9 % |
| Industry & commerce | 1,053 km² | 3.1 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 869 km² | 2.5 % |
| Paths and tracks | 840 km² | 2.5 % |
| Mixed-use area | 721 km² | 2.1 % |
| Woodland | 662 km² | 1.9 % |
| Water bodies | 612 km² | 1.8 % |
| Special-purpose area | 323 km² | 0.9 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 235 km² | 0.7 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 218 km² | 0.6 % |
| Rail transport | 148 km² | 0.4 % |
| Cemetery | 89 km² | 0.3 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 77 km² | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 61 km² | 0.2 % |
| Air transport | 47 km² | 0.1 % |
The data covers the state area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in North Rhine-Westphalia
Calculated from the digital terrain model (DGM1): minimum, maximum and a tile-area-weighted mean of the elevations above sea level (NHN).
| Metric | Elevation above sea level (NHN) |
|---|---|
| Minimum | -325.0 m |
| Mean | 172.1 m |
| Maximum | 843.5 m |
Districts in North Rhine-Westphalia
The same data, clipped to a single district — generated fresh on click.
- Kreisfreie Stadt Düsseldorf
- Kreisfreie Stadt Duisburg
- Kreisfreie Stadt Essen
- Kreisfreie Stadt Krefeld
- Kreisfreie Stadt Mönchengladbach
- Kreisfreie Stadt Mülheim an der Ruhr
- Kreisfreie Stadt Oberhausen
- Kreisfreie Stadt Remscheid
- Kreisfreie Stadt Solingen
- Kreisfreie Stadt Wuppertal
- Kreis Kleve
- Kreis Mettmann
- Kreis Rhein-Kreis Neuss
- Kreis Viersen
- Kreis Wesel
- Kreisfreie Stadt Bonn
- Kreisfreie Stadt Köln
- Kreisfreie Stadt Leverkusen
- Kreis Städteregion Aachen
- Kreis Düren
- Kreis Rhein-Erft-Kreis
- Kreis Euskirchen
- Kreis Heinsberg
- Kreis Oberbergischer Kreis
- Kreis Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis
- Kreis Rhein-Sieg-Kreis
- Kreisfreie Stadt Bottrop
- Kreisfreie Stadt Gelsenkirchen
- Kreisfreie Stadt Münster
- Kreis Borken
- Kreis Coesfeld
- Kreis Recklinghausen
- Kreis Steinfurt
- Kreis Warendorf
- Kreisfreie Stadt Bielefeld
- Kreis Gütersloh
- Kreis Herford
- Kreis Höxter
- Kreis Lippe
- Kreis Minden-Lübbecke
- Kreis Paderborn
- Kreisfreie Stadt Bochum
- Kreisfreie Stadt Dortmund
- Kreisfreie Stadt Hagen
- Kreisfreie Stadt Hamm
- Kreisfreie Stadt Herne
- Kreis Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis
- Kreis Hochsauerlandkreis
- Kreis Märkischer Kreis
- Kreis Olpe
- Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein
- Kreis Soest
- Kreis Unna
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.