NUTS-3 DED42 · Germany
Population
318,3942025
GDP
€9,551M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4.4%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
81.4%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
—
Area
1,827.7 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
DED42 · ES113
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Ourense (Opportunity 49). Runner-up: Erzgebirgskreis (45). Contrarian pick: Erzgebirgskreis — leads the set on Industrial base (EU pctl 79).
#1Ourense
Strengths
Energy cost (95) · Digital readiness (70)
Red flags
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%)
Connectivity (EU bottom 15%)
Strengths
Industrial base (79) · Air quality (78)
Red flags
Growth momentum (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Ourense
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%); Connectivity (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Demographic outlook (EU pctl 6) — Erzgebirgskreis may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Erzgebirgskreis · Manufacturing → Erzgebirgskreis · Office → Ourense · Residential → Erzgebirgskreis.
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
45.4
48.9
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
41.5
43.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
59.0
51.0
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
77.7
47.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
66.0
13.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
22.0
61.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
14.6
66.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
0.2% 5y
5.1% 5y
Population
1.0% 5y
0.1% 5y
Unemployment rate
1.4% 5y
6.3% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€29,998
€29,201
Population density
174 /km²
42 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 87 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€8,724M
€8,135M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€187M
€869M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,466M
€1,639M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,226M
€1,183M
GVA — construction (F)
€755M
€472M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,236M
€1,988M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€25,500
€17,800
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
26,300 PPS
32,900 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€29,600
€29,300
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€10,850M
€13,447M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,837M
€2,235M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€27,479M
€35,979M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,543M
€1,416M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,537M
€1,752M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€8,214M
€8,237M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€70,057
€79,013
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€2,122M
€1,755M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
146,000
120,800
Self-employed persons
15,030
23,600
Employment in manufacturing (C)
39,490
18,100
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
80.5%
73.7%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
—
24.7%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
4.4%
8.3%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
154,900
134,500
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
12,242
22,265
Enterprise births
555
1,629
Enterprise deaths
812
1,567
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.2%
3.8%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.1%
1.2%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
3.7%
3.4%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.1%
1.1%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
29.3%
43.4%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
31.1%
53.3%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
8.0%
14.7%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
18.8%
25.2%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
7.3%
7.0%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
—
96.5%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,465,363
900,227
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
602 /1k
611 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
7,759 kt
8,647 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
2,559
4
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
804
1
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
—
40 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
44
106
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
176,994
178,500
Population aged 65+
101,700
98,484
Population aged under 15
39,700
28,294
Median age of population
53.2 yrs
53.3 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
57.5%
55.2%
Crude rate of total population change
-11.8 /1k
2.7 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-1.0 /1k
13.9 /1k
Crude birth rate
5.4 /1k
4.1 /1k
Crude death rate
16.2 /1k
15.4 /1k
Live births
1,719
1,265
Deaths
5,186
4,704
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
79.9%
71.0%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.48
0.88
Population density (persons per km²)
176 /km²
42 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
290,227
169,768
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
21.6%
22.1%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
80.7 yrs
84.2 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
18.2%
16.0%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
—
317 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,211 /100k
785 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
239 /100k
215 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.3 /100k
0.7 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
16.4 /100k
36.5 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
164 /100k
238 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
506 /100k
149 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
29 /M
48 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.78
1.14
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.56
0.84
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.58
0.96
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.82
0.78
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.53
0.16
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.161/kWh
€0.106/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.055/kWh
€0.048/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
618 m
1,000 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
4 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
97 days/yr
42 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
17 days/yr