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NUTS-3 DEA43 · Germany
Herford
Population
254,4042025
GDP
€10,155M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.7%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
81.7%2025
Active firms· FR-only
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
Area
448.5 km²

Composite intelligence · 0–100 EU-percentile scores

Opportunity Indexscale + growth + access + structure
58.7
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
60.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
61.9
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
68.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
36.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
35.8

Derived comparisons

GDP per capita
€39,918
Population density
567 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only

All indicators · 65 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)

Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€9,276M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€45M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,045M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,780M
GVA — construction (F)
€477M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,857M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€28,000
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
35,500 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€39,900
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€18,145M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€5,057M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€52,413M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,893M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,959M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
126,830
Self-employed persons
10,760
Employment in manufacturing (C)
34,890
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
80.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
6.8%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
9,396
Enterprise births
751
Enterprise deaths
812
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.3%
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
59
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
237 /M
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.8%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.4%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
30.9%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
33.6%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
9.3%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
21.1%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
8.3%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
225,658
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
632 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
2,124
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
835
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
61
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
5
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
158,825
Population aged 65+
59,291
Population aged under 15
36,288
Median age of population
46.8 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
37.3%
Crude rate of total population change
-0.7 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.7 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.0 /1k
Crude death rate
12.4 /1k
Live births
2,025
Deaths
3,168
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
60.2%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.48
Population density (persons per km²)
566 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
24.1%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.2 yrs
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,001 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
234 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
40.9 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
203 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,100 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
38 /M
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
97 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
7 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
48 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr