NUTS-3 DE273 · Germany
Population
67,6452025
GDP
€4,420M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
2.7%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
84.3%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
63.4 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
DE273 · DE502
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Kempten (Allgäu), Kreisfreie Stadt (Opportunity 48). Runner-up: Bremerhaven, Kreisfreie Stadt (47). Contrarian pick: Bremerhaven, Kreisfreie Stadt — leads the set on Talent & skills (EU pctl 57).
Strengths
Economic base (94) · Labour market (93)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Kempten (Allgäu), Kreisfreie Stadt
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Cost advantage (EU pctl 10) — Bremerhaven, Kreisfreie Stadt may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Kempten (Allgäu), Kreisfreie Stadt leads under all four archetype mandates — the recommendation is weight-stable.
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
48.3
47.0
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
45.0
56.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
70.2
42.5
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
61.5
36.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
76.3
51.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
40.5
57.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
20.8
53.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
0.5% 5y
1.4% 5y
Population
0.4% 5y
0.9% 5y
Unemployment rate
2.3% 5y
19.2% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€65,334
€42,821
Population density
1,068 /km²
1,590 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 85 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€4,037M
€4,639M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€6M
€15M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€605M
€893M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€475M
€718M
GVA — construction (F)
€83M
€168M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,407M
€856M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€30,100
€25,000
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
60,000 PPS
38,200 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€67,400
€42,800
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€20,600M
€5,830M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€3,395M
€1,216M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€49,117M
€22,387M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€985M
€1,254M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€950M
€1,454M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€3,771M
€4,376M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€90,351
€86,553
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€1,006M
€741M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
51,200
61,760
Self-employed persons
3,820
3,860
Employment in manufacturing (C)
6,310
6,850
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
83.6%
75.4%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
4.4%
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Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
2.8%
5.1%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
38,900
58,500
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
2,828
3,219
Enterprise births
234
305
Enterprise deaths
206
370
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.9%
6.5%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.4%
2.8%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.6%
5.3%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.0%
2.2%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
34.1%
32.3%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
38.8%
39.9%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
7.1%
11.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
22.4%
23.9%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.1%
9.9%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
354,529
429,540
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
639 /1k
427 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
2,337 kt
3,309 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
446
402
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
659
339
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
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169 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
28
57
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
2
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
43,270
74,834
Population aged 65+
15,155
25,808
Population aged under 15
9,220
17,968
Median age of population
43.2 yrs
43.0 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.0%
34.5%
Crude rate of total population change
25.6 /1k
2.4 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
28.7 /1k
6.5 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.9 /1k
9.0 /1k
Crude death rate
13.0 /1k
13.1 /1k
Live births
662
1,066
Deaths
866
1,550
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
56.3%
58.5%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.45
1.48
Population density (persons per km²)
1,060 /km²
1,463 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
63,470
117,507
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
14.5%
35.4%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.1 yrs
79.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
11.4%
27.5%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
989 /100k
1,054 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
211 /100k
253 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
2.5 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
33.4 /100k
172 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
109 /100k
1,344 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,000 /100k
2,783 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
39 /M
17 /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)
658 m
7 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
4 days/yr
3 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
92 days/yr
38 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
12 days/yr
3 days/yr