NUTS-3 DE112 · Germany
Population
395,1672025
GDP
€34,135M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.6%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
83.6%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
—
Area
614.7 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
DE112 · BE242
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Arr. Leuven (Opportunity 77). Runner-up: Böblingen (77). Contrarian pick: Böblingen — leads the set on Industrial base (EU pctl 100).
Strengths
Talent & skills (93) · Connectivity (84)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Strengths
Industrial base (100) · Economic base (98)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Arr. Leuven
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%); Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%); Industrial base (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Cost advantage (EU pctl 2) — Böblingen may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Böblingen · Manufacturing → Böblingen · Office → Arr. Leuven · Residential → Böblingen.
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
76.5
76.7
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
36.0
63.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
72.9
71.7
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
70.0
64.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
75.7
83.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
60.0
93.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
49.2
52.2
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
4.2% 5y
3.4% 5y
Population
0.1% 5y
0.7% 5y
Unemployment rate
3.7% 5y
7.7% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€86,382
€49,583
Population density
643 /km²
455 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€31,179M
€23,830M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€41M
€240M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€17,883M
€2,500M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€17,666M
€1,849M
GVA — construction (F)
€743M
€745M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€4,894M
€4,566M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€30,800
€32,200
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
77,400 PPS
44,300 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€86,900
€49,800
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€60,881M
€16,879M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€22,211M
€800M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€139,588M
€32,835M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
—
€2,558M
GVA — information & communication (J)
—
€1,138M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€5,081M
€8,990M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,537M
€6,789M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€29,587M
€22,870M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€155,991
€131,739
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€7,551M
€6,820M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
230,390
206,100
Self-employed persons
15,200
42,700
Employment in manufacturing (C)
77,710
13,600
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
82.6%
74.4%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
6.9%
19.7%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
3.6%
5.5%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
222,100
253,500
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
13,927
—
Enterprise births
1,231
—
Enterprise deaths
1,283
—
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.0%
—
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
7.3%
5.2%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
5.8%
7.4%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
4.9%
4.4%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
38.0%
56.7%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
43.1%
57.8%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
9.0%
19.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
26.4%
39.9%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
11.3%
13.4%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
—
95.6%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,072,080
866,158
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
636 /1k
720 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
11,238 kt
4,728 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,430
3,495
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
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83 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
362
658
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
18
26
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
4
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
251,294
336,542
Population aged 65+
82,786
114,853
Population aged under 15
61,087
79,576
Median age of population
44.0 yrs
43.4 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.9%
34.1%
Crude rate of total population change
2.3 /1k
7.0 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.6 /1k
8.1 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.5 /1k
8.3 /1k
Crude death rate
9.9 /1k
9.4 /1k
Live births
3,769
4,384
Deaths
3,898
4,959
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
57.3%
57.8%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.53
1.32
Population density (persons per km²)
639 /km²
453 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
404,793
524,005
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
17.1%
8.8%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.3 yrs
83.9 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
12.6%
5.8%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
—
376 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
938 /100k
810 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
199 /100k
196 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.3 /100k
0.4 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
25.4 /100k
35.5 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
123 /100k
337 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
746 /100k
1,269 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
27 /M
26 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.78
1.31
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.56
1.41
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.58
1.34
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.82
1.58
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.53
0.25
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.161/kWh
€0.130/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.055/kWh
€0.046/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
436 m
55 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
6 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
78 days/yr
35 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
2 days/yr