NUTS-3 AT125 · Austria
Population
127,2152025
GDP
€4,088M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4.4%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
79.5%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
2,410.6 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
AT125 · DEF0E
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Weinviertel (Opportunity 45). Runner-up: Steinburg (45). Contrarian pick: Steinburg — leads the set on Air quality (EU pctl 75).
Strengths
Air quality (75) · Connectivity (70)
Red flags
Flood: 20% of population in the 100-year floodplain
Long-run slide: down 28 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
Why you might not pick Weinviertel
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Cost advantage (EU pctl 3) — Steinburg may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Steinburg · Manufacturing → Weinviertel · Office → Steinburg · Residential → Weinviertel.
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
- Flood defences, return-period design and insurance for flagged regions
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
45.1
44.9
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
78.8
53.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
49.7
60.0
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
66.7
75.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
38.0
70.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
56.8
35.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
55.6
27.6
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.6% 5y
1.8% 5y
Population
0.3% 5y
0.3% 5y
Unemployment rate
1.4% 5y
1.1% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€32,138
€36,059
Population density
53 /km²
130 /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)
€3,676M
€4,372M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€255M
€144M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€853M
€1,050M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€725M
€647M
GVA — construction (F)
€261M
€268M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€575M
€627M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€31,600
€28,800
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
28,400 PPS
32,300 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€32,100
€36,200
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€18,609M
€27,063M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€2,844M
€2,460M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€35,602M
€61,661M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€858M
€1,123M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€874M
€1,159M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€3,484M
€3,964M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€110,156
€86,848
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€1,045M
€1,075M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
39,900
59,110
Self-employed persons
6,600
6,560
Employment in manufacturing (C)
4,400
8,070
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
79.4%
80.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
8.0%
6.0%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
4.4%
3.6%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
63,800
69,700
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
6,122
4,565
Enterprise births
409
339
Enterprise deaths
312
442
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.2%
3.7%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.8%
1.5%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.4%
4.0%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.1%
0.8%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
36.7%
31.8%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
39.5%
32.4%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
13.7%
9.2%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
23.5%
21.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.2%
8.6%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
95.0%
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Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
200,316
176,529
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
663 /1k
593 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
4,194 kt
4,957 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
23
1,088
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
20 km/1000km²
35 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
18
820
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
62
45
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
79,673
83,090
Population aged 65+
30,516
31,796
Population aged under 15
17,026
17,845
Median age of population
48.7 yrs
48.8 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
38.3%
38.3%
Crude rate of total population change
-2.2 /1k
2.1 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.6 /1k
9.0 /1k
Crude birth rate
6.9 /1k
7.2 /1k
Crude death rate
12.8 /1k
14.1 /1k
Live births
884
956
Deaths
1,629
1,867
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.7%
59.7%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.29
1.38
Population density (persons per km²)
53 /km²
131 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
110,584
119,139
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
13.5%
20.9%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.8 yrs
80.8 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
11.0%
16.8%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
636 /100k
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Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,047 /100k
1,015 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
230 /100k
251 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
2.4 /100k
1.5 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
20.4 /100k
40.8 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
927 /100k
243 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,179 /100k
1,216 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
49 /M
29 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.74
1.78
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.40
1.56
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.64
1.58
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.37
1.82
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.60
0.53
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.156/kWh
€0.161/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.049/kWh
€0.055/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
247 m
7 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
15 days/yr
4 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
76 days/yr
47 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
2 days/yr