NUTS-3 DE933 · Germany
Population
265,8642025
GDP
€7,998M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.3%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
81.7%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
1,251.8 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
DE933 · DEB1B
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Westerwaldkreis (Opportunity 66). Runner-up: Harburg (59). Contrarian pick: Harburg — leads the set on Resilience (EU pctl 72).
#2Harburg
Strengths
Resilience (72) · Labour market (72)
Red flags
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Westerwaldkreis
Its weakest dimension is Talent & skills (EU pctl 21) — Harburg may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Westerwaldkreis 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
59.4
66.3
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
72.3
70.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
51.7
60.3
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
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92.5
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
71.7
59.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
30.8
21.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
65.8
59.8
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
0.5% 5y
0.8% 5y
Population
0.9% 5y
0.6% 5y
Unemployment rate
0.6% 5y
2.6% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€30,082
€43,410
Population density
212 /km²
209 /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)
€7,305M
€8,240M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€142M
€49M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€685M
€2,179M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€506M
€1,883M
GVA — construction (F)
€691M
€738M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,187M
€2,171M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€28,400
€27,600
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
27,000 PPS
38,800 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€30,300
€43,500
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€16,211M
€13,756M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,023M
€2,010M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€31,011M
€33,032M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,992M
€1,630M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,608M
€1,473M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€6,744M
€7,686M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€81,587
€92,801
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€2,099M
€1,970M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
104,890
102,250
Self-employed persons
13,630
9,250
Employment in manufacturing (C)
7,470
23,960
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
80.2%
81.8%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
3.3%
2.9%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
134,700
111,300
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
10,445
8,085
Enterprise births
937
659
Enterprise deaths
943
629
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.8%
3.5%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.0%
1.0%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
3.5%
3.7%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
0.5%
0.6%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
31.6%
28.7%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
30.9%
31.2%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
8.3%
8.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
21.1%
18.8%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
8.4%
7.1%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
751,893
629,775
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
653 /1k
660 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
8,694 kt
8,434 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,785
801
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
671
386
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
36
62
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)
166,299
130,733
Population aged 65+
61,436
47,353
Population aged under 15
38,129
29,717
Median age of population
47.4 yrs
46.9 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
36.9%
36.2%
Crude rate of total population change
4.1 /1k
0.7 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
7.6 /1k
5.2 /1k
Crude birth rate
7.9 /1k
7.7 /1k
Crude death rate
11.4 /1k
12.2 /1k
Live births
2,102
1,604
Deaths
3,028
2,538
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.9%
59.0%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.53
1.38
Population density (persons per km²)
214 /km²
211 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
220,668
206,552
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
20.1%
19.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
80.7 yrs
80.9 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.4%
12.8%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,033 /100k
1,059 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
242 /100k
242 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.5 /100k
0.5 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
42.7 /100k
13.0 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
297 /100k
142 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
973 /100k
591 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
41 /M
39 /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)
47 m
448 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
5 days/yr
4 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
48 days/yr
69 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
4 days/yr