Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€16,331M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€135M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€7,348M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€6,881M
GVA — construction (F)
€987M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,078M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€30,800
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
50,300 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€56,400
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€60,881M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€22,211M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€139,588M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,125M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,658M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
175,820
Self-employed persons
13,100
Employment in manufacturing (C)
54,480
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
82.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
6.9%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
38.0%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
43.1%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
9.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
26.4%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
11.3%
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
636 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
2,440
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
769
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
68
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
200,765
Population aged 65+
70,435
Population aged under 15
46,227
Median age of population
45.2 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.1%
Crude rate of total population change
0.5 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.2 /1k
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
58.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.47
Population density (persons per km²)
210 /km²
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
23.6 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
107 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
769 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
27 /M