NUTS-3 DED52 · Germany
Population
260,1272025
GDP
€8,482M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
5.2%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
81.2%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
—
Area
1,649.4 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
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Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Leipzig (Opportunity 55). Runner-up: Landkreis Rostock (51). Contrarian pick: Landkreis Rostock — leads the set on Air quality (EU pctl 68).
#1Leipzig
Strengths
Freight intensity (89) · Connectivity (71)
Red flags
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%)
Strengths
Freight intensity (80) · Air quality (68)
Red flags
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Leipzig
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Demographic outlook (EU pctl 8) — Landkreis Rostock may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Leipzig leads under all four archetype mandates — the recommendation is weight-stable.
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
54.6
50.7
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
56.3
52.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
56.6
53.8
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
—
68.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
70.7
47.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
69.0
22.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
49.8
58.8
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
1.5% 5y
0.8% 5y
Population
0.2% 5y
0.3% 5y
Unemployment rate
9.3% 5y
1.8% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€32,606
€33,371
Population density
158 /km²
64 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 85 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€7,747M
€6,667M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€179M
€346M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,243M
€1,190M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,033M
€654M
GVA — construction (F)
€861M
€579M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,349M
€1,532M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€24,700
€25,400
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
29,100 PPS
29,800 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€32,600
€33,400
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€9,129M
€13,049M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,577M
€885M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€24,874M
€30,582M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,308M
€1,267M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,807M
€1,752M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€7,286M
€6,110M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€86,847
€84,560
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€1,740M
€1,638M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
102,850
93,860
Self-employed persons
11,480
9,670
Employment in manufacturing (C)
16,350
9,560
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
80.7%
78.9%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
—
9.3%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
5.3%
3.5%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
125,700
104,700
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
9,467
8,105
Enterprise births
553
484
Enterprise deaths
804
633
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.5%
3.7%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.1%
1.4%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
6.2%
2.8%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.2%
0.8%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
39.7%
28.3%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
47.1%
29.4%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
12.6%
7.6%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
27.1%
19.2%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.4%
7.4%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
505,400
4,570,556
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
478 /1k
564 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
13,689 kt
9,697 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,866
2,406
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
717
1,100
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
—
26 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
32
155
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
151,973
128,827
Population aged 65+
72,946
59,972
Population aged under 15
35,208
29,922
Median age of population
51.1 yrs
51.2 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
48.0%
46.6%
Crude rate of total population change
-2.2 /1k
-0.3 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.6 /1k
7.9 /1k
Crude birth rate
5.1 /1k
5.6 /1k
Crude death rate
13.9 /1k
13.7 /1k
Live births
1,317
1,222
Deaths
3,617
3,006
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
71.2%
69.8%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.26
1.41
Population density (persons per km²)
162 /km²
65 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
211,286
172,512
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
20.6%
21.5%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.4 yrs
79.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
17.4%
16.8%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,076 /100k
1,126 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
239 /100k
267 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.8 /100k
0.5 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
26.9 /100k
19.2 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
355 /100k
189 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
823 /100k
768 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
35 /M
59 /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)
144 m
37 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
10 days/yr
3 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
57 days/yr
56 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
2 days/yr