In 2025, approximately 13.440 women and 15.280 children/adolescents sought protection in women's shelters. This is the result of a projection based on the latest women's shelter statistics from FHK. This year's statistics are based on data from 6.430 women and 7.310 children from a total of 191 of the approximately 400 women's shelters in Germany.
The women's shelter statistics for 2025 are accompanied by a
The FHK women's shelter statistics are the only nationwide statistics that provide annual data on women's shelter work and residents for practice, research, and policy. Women's shelter statistics has been available since 1999, and as an online statistics since 2010. On June 1, 2016, the online statistics were comprehensively revised in terms of content and technology.
The evaluation provides a statistical overview of the nationwide situation in tabular form—including the number and age of residents and their children, as well as their origin, nationality, education, and income. Special analyses provide information on topics that change annually.
Since 2016, the FHK women's shelter statistics have been able to reflect case-specific services provided by women's shelter staff, such as support, mediation, and counseling in their work with a specific resident. Among other things, the surveys include whether residents contribute to the costs of their stay at the shelter.
The 2025 women's shelter statistics include an "overview and interpretation of key findings" as well as a supplementary table section that documents the queries on which the evaluation is based.
The annual reports up to 2024 include supplementary special reports that describe data on a specific topic in more detail. Reports for 2019 to 2024 are available for download. Reports for 2010 to 2018 are available upon request. The special reports from previous years focused on the following topics:
| Year | Main topic (long version) | Key findings |
| 2024 | With chapter on the Violence Assistance Act and needs analysis | Summary 2024 |
| 2023 | Length of stay in the women's shelter | Summary 2023 |
| 2022 | Women with (multiple) children | Summary 2022 |
| 2021 | Without special evaluation | Summary 2021 |
| 2020 | Residents with impairments / disabilities | Summary 2020 |
| 2019 | Analysis of resident statistics | Summary 2019 |
| 2018 | EU citizens in a women's shelter | - |
| 2017 | Older children and adolescents in the women's shelter | - |
| 2016 | Refugee women in the women's shelter | - |
| 2015 | Consideration of domestic violence in custody and access rights | - |
| 2014 | Changes in resident numbers | - |
| 2012 | Living situation of women after their stay in a women's shelter | - |
| 2011 | Children in the women's shelter | - |
| 2010 | Women with a migration background | - |
It is possible to break down the data for individual federal states. However, these analyses are subject to a fee. They contain a tabular analysis of the data; a content analysis is not performed for individual federal states.
Only women's shelters can register via the resident statistics portal and, after registration, log in to enter and evaluate data about their own women's shelter.
To the registration application
To the portal of the resident statistics
The following federal associations are members of the Women’s Shelter Coordination Association
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