NUTS-3 DE279 · Germany
Population
183,5952025
GDP
€7,786M2023
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
515.3 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
DE279 · DE137
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Tuttlingen (Opportunity 64). Runner-up: Neu-Ulm (58). Contrarian pick: Neu-Ulm — leads the set on Labour market (EU pctl 93).
#2Neu-Ulm
Strengths
Labour market (93) · Industrial base (89)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Flood: 23% of population in the 100-year floodplain
Why you might not pick Tuttlingen
Its weakest dimension is Cost advantage (EU pctl 19) — Neu-Ulm may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Neu-Ulm · Manufacturing → Tuttlingen · Office → Tuttlingen · Residential → Tuttlingen.
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
- Flood defences, return-period design and insurance for flagged regions
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
57.8
64.3
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
65.8
50.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
64.0
74.1
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
39.7
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
72.7
64.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
40.5
55.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
35.2
43.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
0.3% 5y
2.3% 5y
Population
0.9% 5y
0.6% 5y
Unemployment rate
6.2% 5y
4.4% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€42,406
€58,727
Population density
356 /km²
198 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 84 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€7,111M
€7,789M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€53M
€35M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,296M
€4,385M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,158M
€4,225M
GVA — construction (F)
€349M
€327M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,503M
€901M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€30,100
€29,100
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
38,200 PPS
52,600 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€42,900
€59,100
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€20,600M
€24,625M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€3,395M
€4,717M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€49,117M
€57,940M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,668M
€1,187M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,241M
€955M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€6,643M
€7,386M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€91,561
€101,543
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€1,771M
€2,009M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
88,990
88,790
Self-employed persons
7,440
6,240
Employment in manufacturing (C)
24,060
42,510
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
83.6%
82.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
4.4%
4.0%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
2.7%
3.1%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
105,900
80,100
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
6,378
5,490
Enterprise births
499
439
Enterprise deaths
556
438
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.4%
3.8%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.4%
2.5%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.6%
6.0%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.0%
1.5%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
34.1%
37.6%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
38.8%
42.8%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
7.1%
9.6%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
22.4%
25.0%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.1%
9.3%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
490,599
333,262
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
639 /1k
603 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
6,877 kt
3,079 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
992
837
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
540
576
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
34
65
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
3
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
117,696
91,800
Population aged 65+
38,805
30,208
Population aged under 15
27,094
23,200
Median age of population
43.8 yrs
43.4 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
33.0%
32.9%
Crude rate of total population change
5.7 /1k
1.7 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
7.1 /1k
2.3 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.0 /1k
10.2 /1k
Crude death rate
10.5 /1k
10.8 /1k
Live births
1,655
1,480
Deaths
1,917
1,562
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
56.0%
58.2%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.45
1.73
Population density (persons per km²)
358 /km²
198 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
170,921
157,164
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
14.5%
18.4%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.1 yrs
82.2 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
11.4%
13.1%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
989 /100k
950 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
211 /100k
205 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
0.0 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
30.1 /100k
24.1 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
132 /100k
122 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
780 /100k
718 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
39 /M
34 /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)
541 m
865 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
2 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
91 days/yr
104 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
4 days/yr