NUTS-3 DEG0S · Germany
Population
34,6852025
GDP
€1,329M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.7%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
81.3%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
142.1 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
DEG0S · DEG0V
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Sonneberg (Opportunity 35). Runner-up: Suhl, Kreisfreie Stadt (34). Contrarian pick: Suhl, Kreisfreie Stadt — leads the set on Connectivity (EU pctl 64).
Strengths
Air quality (78) · Labour market (67)
Red flags
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Sonneberg
Its weakest dimension is Growth momentum (EU pctl 17) — Suhl, Kreisfreie Stadt may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Sonneberg · Manufacturing → Sonneberg · Office → Suhl, Kreisfreie Stadt · Residential → Suhl, Kreisfreie Stadt.
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
33.7
34.5
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
29.3
26.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
56.6
57.5
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
77.7
93.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
64.3
63.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
28.5
28.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
16.2
16.6
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
1.2% 5y
1.0% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€38,322
€31,238
Population density
244 /km²
120 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 73 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€1,214M
€1,568M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€2M
€39M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€192M
€625M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€161M
€570M
GVA — construction (F)
€61M
€93M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€225M
€173M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€25,200
€25,200
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
32,600 PPS
27,200 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€36,600
€30,600
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€14,609M
€14,609M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€3,167M
€3,167M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€42,299M
€42,299M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€241M
€273M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€493M
€365M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
19,700
24,470
Self-employed persons
1,600
2,250
Employment in manufacturing (C)
2,620
8,800
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
80.5%
80.5%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
7.7%
7.7%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
1,277
1,881
Enterprise births
66
70
Enterprise deaths
88
126
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.9%
2.7%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.6%
2.6%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.7%
4.7%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.3%
1.3%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
30.4%
30.4%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
35.6%
35.6%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
8.1%
8.1%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
19.9%
19.9%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
7.3%
7.3%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
188,461
123,374
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
568 /1k
568 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
216
543
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
271 kt
2,078 kt
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
623
988
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
32 km/1000km²
32 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
43
63
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
19,106
32,223
Population aged 65+
11,984
16,634
Population aged under 15
3,595
6,107
Median age of population
56.1 yrs
53.3 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
62.7%
51.6%
Crude rate of total population change
-45.7 /1k
-17.9 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-34.8 /1k
-6.2 /1k
Crude birth rate
5.3 /1k
5.2 /1k
Crude death rate
16.1 /1k
17.0 /1k
Live births
187
291
Deaths
573
943
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
81.5%
70.6%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.38
1.26
Population density (persons per km²)
252 /km²
121 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
23.4%
23.4%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
80.7 yrs
80.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
17.4%
17.4%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,212 /100k
1,212 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
228 /100k
228 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
1.8 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
63.4 /100k
39.3 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
259 /100k
238 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,837 /100k
1,017 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
46 /M
46 /M
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)
566 m
717 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
2 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
103 days/yr
109 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
6 days/yr