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NUTS-3 DE402 · Germany
Cottbus, Kreisfreie Stadt
Population
95,1232025
GDP
€4,430M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
81.6%2025
Active firms· FR-only
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
Area
165.7 km²

Composite intelligence · 0–100 EU-percentile scores

Opportunity Indexscale + growth + access + structure
40.4
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
33.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
52.8
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
38.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
45.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
27.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
32.8

Derived comparisons

GDP per capita
€46,574
Population density
574 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only

All indicators · 68 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)

Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€4,047M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€4M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€436M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€114M
GVA — construction (F)
€174M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€690M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€26,000
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
41,800 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€46,900
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€23,042M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€2,607M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€47,281M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€920M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,822M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
61,430
Self-employed persons
4,960
Employment in manufacturing (C)
2,560
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
80.0%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
7.3%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
3,210
Enterprise births
179
Enterprise deaths
231
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.7%
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
7
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
64 /M
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.5%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.1%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
32.2%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
31.8%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
6.4%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
21.9%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
7.6%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
293,826
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
584 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
518
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
545
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
84
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
57,067
Population aged 65+
26,138
Population aged under 15
11,918
Median age of population
48.1 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
45.8%
Crude rate of total population change
3.6 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
12.3 /1k
Crude birth rate
6.6 /1k
Crude death rate
15.3 /1k
Live births
627
Deaths
1,450
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
66.7%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.27
Population density (persons per km²)
576 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
19.6%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.0 yrs
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,113 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
245 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
136 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
1,011 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,735 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
45 /M
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
69 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
12 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
59 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr