Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€23,131M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€6M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€7,034M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€5,945M
GVA — construction (F)
€951M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€5,076M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€29,100
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
71,500 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€80,200
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€31,701M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€6,099M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€83,032M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€6,186M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,877M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
249,430
Self-employed persons
15,960
Employment in manufacturing (C)
41,640
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
81.4%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
5.7%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
40.0%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
45.6%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
9.3%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
27.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
13.0%
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
597 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,024
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
322
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
59
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
217,277
Population aged 65+
59,485
Population aged under 15
41,273
Median age of population
40.9 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
27.4%
Crude rate of total population change
5.6 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.8 /1k
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
46.4%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.19
Population density (persons per km²)
2,265 /km²
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
63.2 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
387 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,341 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
26 /M