NUTS-3 AT224 · Austria
Population
267,3912025
GDP
€10,434M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
5%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
77.8%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
3,316.6 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
AT224 · DE71E
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Wetteraukreis (Opportunity 66). Runner-up: Oststeiermark (49). Contrarian pick: Oststeiermark — leads the set on Resilience (EU pctl 80).
Strengths
Connectivity (72) · Quality of life (65)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Strengths
Resilience (80) · Freight intensity (80)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Wetteraukreis
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Cost advantage (EU pctl 10) — Oststeiermark may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Oststeiermark · Manufacturing → Oststeiermark · Office → Wetteraukreis · Residential → Wetteraukreis.
Phase-2 diligence checklist
- Site-level grid connection capacity and power pricing (beyond country-grain energy data)
- Local incentives, tax regimes and permitting timelines
- Workforce depth for your specific roles (the talent pillar is a proxy)
- Real-estate availability, rents and land — public pan-EU data stops at the Nordics
This is a mandate-neutral read. To weight the pillars to your thesis, run these regions through the Site Screener — it ranks all 1,211 regions under your weights and exports the full PDF. First-pass macro screening, not investment advice.
Composite intelligence · 0–100 EU-percentile scores
Opportunity Indexscale + growth + access + structure
49.2
65.8
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
80.3
64.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
54.4
65.3
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
46.0
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
38.7
71.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
66.5
62.8
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
37.4
48.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
1.5% 5y
1.8% 5y
Population
0.0% 5y
0.2% 5y
Unemployment rate
2.6% 5y
4.4% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€39,020
€36,289
Population density
81 /km²
284 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 87 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€9,381M
€10,328M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€403M
€62M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,148M
€1,957M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,813M
€1,547M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,048M
€734M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,900M
€2,608M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€30,700
€30,100
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
34,600 PPS
32,500 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€39,000
€36,500
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€15,264M
€49,287M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€3,445M
€7,586M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€31,076M
€137,102M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,265M
€2,678M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,619M
€2,289M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€9,173M
€10,067M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€90,164
€93,876
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€2,663M
€2,201M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
125,900
128,200
Self-employed persons
21,400
13,810
Employment in manufacturing (C)
23,700
16,890
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
78.7%
78.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
11.3%
6.3%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
5.0%
3.6%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
133,600
159,300
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
16,174
12,503
Enterprise births
1,018
1,197
Enterprise deaths
732
1,232
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.4%
3.7%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
5.3%
3.4%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
5.9%
7.5%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
3.1%
2.4%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
34.9%
37.9%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
43.8%
43.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
16.1%
10.5%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
23.4%
26.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
10.3%
9.8%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
94.7%
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Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,764,513
508,372
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
626 /1k
612 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
11,951 kt
8,080 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1
1,813
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
0
582
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
19 km/1000km²
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Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
35
43
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
168,934
197,001
Population aged 65+
61,193
70,282
Population aged under 15
37,264
44,310
Median age of population
47.4 yrs
46.5 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
36.2%
35.7%
Crude rate of total population change
-0.7 /1k
2.9 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.3 /1k
7.2 /1k
Crude birth rate
7.3 /1k
7.8 /1k
Crude death rate
10.3 /1k
12.1 /1k
Live births
1,953
2,435
Deaths
2,754
3,774
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
58.3%
58.2%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.37
1.42
Population density (persons per km²)
82 /km²
283 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
236,232
285,690
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
18.9%
21.1%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.4 yrs
82.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
15.6%
16.4%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
723 /100k
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Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
954 /100k
974 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
228 /100k
229 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
1.0 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
5.6 /100k
28.3 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
195 /100k
261 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
508 /100k
761 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
50 /M
27 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.74
1.78
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.40
1.56
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.64
1.58
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.37
1.82
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.60
0.53
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.156/kWh
€0.161/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.049/kWh
€0.055/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
386 m
139 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
9 days/yr
11 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
99 days/yr
58 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
2 days/yr