
There were 125 day-care centers for children and 536 physicians in private practice and 72 pharmacies. The borough has 31 elementary schools and 31 secondary schools. Pauli in Hamburg-Mitte, and the head office of Federal Bureau for Maritime Casualty Investigation is in the BSH facility. The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (BSH) has its head office in St. The offices are responsible, among other things, for the application for a residence permit for purposes of study after entering the country. It has 4 local offices or "Customer Centres." These are Customer Centre Hamburg-Mitte, Customer Centre Billstedt, Customer Centre St. The main local office ( Bezirksamt Hamburg-Mitte) is located on Klosterwall. In 2006 there were 71,559 criminal offences in borough (307 crimes per 1000 people). In 1999 there were 126,753 households, out of which 17.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them and 52.4% of all households were made up of single occupants. 17,550 people were registered as unemployed and 72,608 were employees subject to social insurance contributions. 14.9% were children under the age of 18, and 15.6% were 65 years of age or older. In 2006 233,144 people lived in the borough. These three districts also constitute what is considered Hamburg's Innenstadt (inner city). The historic center of Hamburg lies within the districts Altstadt, Neustadt and HafenCity, also defined by being inside the Wallring. Pauli, Steinwerder, Veddel, Waltershof and Wilhelmsburg. Hamburg-Mitte consists of the quarters Billbrook, Billstedt, Borgfelde, Finkenwerder, HafenCity, Hamburg-Altstadt, Hamburg-Hamm, Hammerbrook, Horn, Kleiner Grasbrook, Neustadt, Neuwerk, Rothenburgsort, St.



In 2006, according to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg-Mitte has a total area of 107.1 square kilometres (41 sq mi). The borough severs Hamburg from the east to the west.
