NUTS-3 DE135 · Germany
Population
140,2372025
GDP
€7,330M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.1%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
83.9%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
774.4 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
DE135 · DE21N
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Weilheim-Schongau (Opportunity 62). Runner-up: Rottweil (57). Contrarian pick: Rottweil — leads the set on Industrial base (EU pctl 98).
Strengths
Labour market (97) · Industrial base (97)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Weilheim-Schongau
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Cost advantage (EU pctl 2) — Rottweil may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Rottweil · Manufacturing → Weilheim-Schongau · Office → Weilheim-Schongau · Residential → Weilheim-Schongau.
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
56.8
61.6
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
46.5
67.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
67.0
82.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
71.7
62.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
55.3
77.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
29.2
45.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
1.5% 5y
0.4% 5y
Population
0.1% 5y
0.5% 5y
Unemployment rate
6.2% 5y
10.8% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€52,268
€48,795
Population density
181 /km²
144 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 82 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€6,695M
€6,193M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€49M
€86M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,162M
€2,556M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,969M
€2,426M
GVA — construction (F)
€400M
€346M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€873M
€788M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€29,100
€34,700
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
46,600 PPS
44,000 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€52,300
€49,300
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€24,625M
€92,019M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€4,717M
€17,837M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€57,940M
€176,106M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,156M
€1,181M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,056M
€1,236M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€6,349M
€5,898M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€99,152
€95,225
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€1,727M
€1,797M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
78,160
74,390
Self-employed persons
6,580
7,820
Employment in manufacturing (C)
29,330
21,010
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
82.3%
83.9%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
4.0%
5.4%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
3.1%
3.0%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
76,200
72,600
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
5,724
6,307
Enterprise births
455
440
Enterprise deaths
425
517
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.3%
3.6%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.5%
5.2%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
6.0%
8.9%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.5%
3.9%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
37.6%
47.4%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
42.8%
57.2%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
9.6%
9.2%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
25.0%
32.4%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.3%
13.5%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
275,231
402,905
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
603 /1k
612 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
5,291 kt
4,854 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,541
843
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,099
607
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
68
61
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
5
3
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
87,411
86,014
Population aged 65+
31,390
31,972
Population aged under 15
21,436
20,971
Median age of population
45.6 yrs
46.3 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.9%
37.2%
Crude rate of total population change
-0.8 /1k
6.5 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
1.4 /1k
8.9 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.2 /1k
8.7 /1k
Crude death rate
11.3 /1k
11.1 /1k
Live births
1,291
1,201
Deaths
1,592
1,532
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
60.4%
61.6%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.66
1.55
Population density (persons per km²)
182 /km²
145 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
139,223
133,300
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
18.4%
15.3%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.2 yrs
82.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
13.1%
11.8%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
950 /100k
931 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
205 /100k
204 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.7 /100k
0.0 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
14.3 /100k
7.2 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
118 /100k
63.0 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
589 /100k
511 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
34 /M
35 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.78
1.78
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.56
1.56
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.58
1.58
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.82
1.82
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.53
0.53
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.161/kWh
€0.161/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.055/kWh
€0.055/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
679 m
599 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
4 days/yr
4 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
89 days/yr
106 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
11 days/yr