NUTS-3 DEB3I · Germany
Population
155,8822025
GDP
€3,673M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
82.1%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
305.9 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
DEB3I · DEB13
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Altenkirchen (Westerwald) (Opportunity 57). Runner-up: Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis (51). Contrarian pick: Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis — leads the set on Resilience (EU pctl 72).
Strengths
Labour market (76) · Resilience (72)
Red flags
Economic base (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Its weakest dimension is Demographic outlook (EU pctl 16) — Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Altenkirchen (Westerwald) · Manufacturing → Altenkirchen (Westerwald) · Office → Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis · Residential → Altenkirchen (Westerwald).
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
50.7
56.8
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
71.5
66.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
56.2
65.2
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
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93.5
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
54.7
79.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
57.5
21.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
36.6
43.8
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
0.3% 5y
0.2% 5y
Population
0.2% 5y
0.5% 5y
Unemployment rate
10.8% 5y
10.7% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€23,564
€32,625
Population density
510 /km²
205 /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)
€3,355M
€3,937M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€223M
€33M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€397M
€1,270M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€218M
€1,163M
GVA — construction (F)
€317M
€364M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€772M
€596M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€27,700
€27,600
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
21,100 PPS
29,100 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€23,700
€32,700
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€20,699M
€13,756M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€4,472M
€2,010M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€49,098M
€33,032M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,062M
€908M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€584M
€766M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€3,121M
€3,673M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€86,971
€82,962
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€789M
€941M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
44,230
54,660
Self-employed persons
5,440
4,950
Employment in manufacturing (C)
3,780
15,250
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
81.3%
81.8%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
6.4%
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Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
4.0%
2.9%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
81,000
69,500
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
4,891
4,485
Enterprise births
435
365
Enterprise deaths
491
403
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.3%
3.8%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
5.3%
1.0%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
6.4%
3.7%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
2.1%
0.6%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
36.8%
28.7%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
41.9%
31.2%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
10.1%
8.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
25.1%
18.8%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.8%
7.1%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
116,255
178,457
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
621 /1k
660 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
3,582 kt
2,670 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
464
1,241
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
298
939
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
68
48
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
5
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
94,728
81,660
Population aged 65+
37,828
31,132
Population aged under 15
23,326
19,333
Median age of population
47.8 yrs
47.0 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
39.9%
38.1%
Crude rate of total population change
2.3 /1k
-0.2 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.3 /1k
5.0 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.1 /1k
7.8 /1k
Crude death rate
12.1 /1k
13.0 /1k
Live births
1,264
1,037
Deaths
1,889
1,718
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
64.6%
61.8%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.59
1.47
Population density (persons per km²)
530 /km²
206 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
134,484
115,412
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
23.2%
19.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.2 yrs
80.9 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
16.8%
12.8%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,015 /100k
1,059 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
231 /100k
242 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
0.0 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
18.0 /100k
34.0 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
182 /100k
142 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
646 /100k
798 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
25 /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)
96 m
323 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
21 days/yr
5 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
47 days/yr
62 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
5 days/yr