Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€23,822M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€64M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€5,828M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4,262M
GVA — construction (F)
€893M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€4,782M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€28,000
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
40,000 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€44,900
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€34,670M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€6,008M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€125,036M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€5,457M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€6,799M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
308,710
Self-employed persons
23,710
Employment in manufacturing (C)
39,970
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
78.8%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
6.8%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
38.8%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
46.1%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
11.3%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
27.8%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
10.5%
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
585 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
4,003
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
687
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
37
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
5
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
383,763
Population aged 65+
123,756
Population aged under 15
74,891
Median age of population
42.5 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.2%
Crude rate of total population change
-0.1 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.2 /1k
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
51.8%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.21
Population density (persons per km²)
830 /km²
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.4 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
63.5 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
479 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,673 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
27 /M