NUTS-3 DEB3C · Germany
Population
134,3292025
GDP
€3,618M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
82.1%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
593.3 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
DEB3C · DEB12
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Ahrweiler (Opportunity 55). Runner-up: Bad Dürkheim (52). Contrarian pick: Bad Dürkheim — leads the set on Resilience (EU pctl 77).
Why you might not pick Ahrweiler
Its weakest dimension is Talent & skills (EU pctl 21) — Bad Dürkheim may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Ahrweiler · Manufacturing → Ahrweiler · Office → Bad Dürkheim · Residential → Ahrweiler.
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
51.7
54.6
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
76.8
67.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
62.7
54.8
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
59.3
76.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
57.5
21.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
39.2
45.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
0.2% 5y
0.4% 5y
Population
0.2% 5y
0.1% 5y
Unemployment rate
10.8% 5y
5.9% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€26,934
€33,372
Population density
226 /km²
165 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 81 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€3,305M
€3,943M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€181M
€43M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€523M
€763M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€423M
€658M
GVA — construction (F)
€201M
€336M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€671M
€887M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€27,700
€27,600
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
24,000 PPS
30,000 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€27,000
€33,700
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€20,699M
€13,756M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€4,472M
€2,010M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€49,098M
€33,032M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€909M
€918M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€820M
€996M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€3,074M
€3,678M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€77,896
€82,960
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€778M
€943M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
48,660
54,740
Self-employed persons
6,240
6,150
Employment in manufacturing (C)
5,190
8,990
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
81.3%
81.8%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
6.4%
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Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
4.0%
2.8%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
69,500
66,800
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
5,223
5,358
Enterprise births
425
454
Enterprise deaths
477
445
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.1%
3.8%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
5.3%
1.0%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
6.4%
3.7%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
2.1%
0.6%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
36.8%
28.7%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
41.9%
31.2%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
10.1%
8.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
25.1%
18.8%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.8%
7.1%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
731,177
836,944
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
621 /1k
660 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
3,109 kt
4,526 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
669
861
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
498
666
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
70
43
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
3
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
81,354
78,475
Population aged 65+
35,029
33,561
Population aged under 15
17,946
17,317
Median age of population
50.4 yrs
49.1 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
43.1%
42.8%
Crude rate of total population change
0.8 /1k
6.3 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.5 /1k
11.1 /1k
Crude birth rate
7.2 /1k
7.7 /1k
Crude death rate
12.9 /1k
12.5 /1k
Live births
966
992
Deaths
1,726
1,613
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
65.1%
64.8%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.41
1.43
Population density (persons per km²)
226 /km²
165 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
111,387
114,390
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
23.2%
19.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.2 yrs
80.9 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
16.8%
12.8%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,015 /100k
1,059 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
231 /100k
242 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
0.8 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
22.4 /100k
16.3 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
188 /100k
199 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
698 /100k
826 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
25 /M
39 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.78
1.78
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.56
1.56
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.58
1.58
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.82
1.82
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.53
0.53
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)
307 m
428 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
11 days/yr
4 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
58 days/yr
64 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
3 days/yr