NUTS-3 DEG0S · Germany
Population
34,6852025
GDP
€1,329M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.7%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
81.3%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
142.1 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
DEG0S · EL645
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Suhl, Kreisfreie Stadt (Opportunity 34). Runner-up: Φωκίδα (27). Contrarian pick: Φωκίδα — leads the set on Demographic outlook (EU pctl 95).
Strengths
Air quality (78) · Labour market (67)
Red flags
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
#2Φωκίδα
Strengths
Demographic outlook (95) · Freight intensity (93)
Red flags
Economic base (EU bottom 15%)
Talent & skills (EU bottom 15%)
Connectivity (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Governance (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Suhl, Kreisfreie Stadt
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Freight intensity (EU pctl 5) — Φωκίδα may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Φωκίδα · Manufacturing → Φωκίδα · Office → Suhl, Kreisfreie Stadt · Residential → Suhl, Kreisfreie Stadt.
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
33.7
26.9
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
29.3
41.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
56.6
31.5
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
77.7
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
64.3
8.5
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
28.5
11.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
16.2
62.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
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3.5% 5y
Population
1.2% 5y
0.2% 5y
Unemployment rate
—
15.0% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€38,322
€15,559
Population density
244 /km²
17 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 88 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€1,214M
€505M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€2M
€62M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€192M
€117M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€161M
€39M
GVA — construction (F)
€61M
€6M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€225M
€99M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€25,200
€11,400
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
32,600 PPS
17,100 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€36,600
€13,900
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€14,609M
€2,619M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€3,167M
€156M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€42,299M
€3,486M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
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€77M
GVA — information & communication (J)
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€5M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€241M
€101M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€493M
€121M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
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€530M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
—
€43,459
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
—
€177M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
19,700
14,660
Self-employed persons
1,600
5,560
Employment in manufacturing (C)
2,620
510
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
80.5%
70.4%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
7.7%
18.5%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
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8.6%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
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16,300
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
1,277
2,423
Enterprise births
66
145
Enterprise deaths
88
93
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.9%
3.8%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.6%
1.1%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.7%
1.5%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.3%
0.7%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
30.4%
24.7%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
35.6%
33.2%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
8.1%
3.2%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
19.9%
14.4%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
7.3%
5.8%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
188,461
509,730
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
568 /1k
278 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
271 kt
2,168 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
216
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Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
32 km/1000km²
18 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
623
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Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
43
163
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
19,106
21,372
Population aged 65+
11,984
12,252
Population aged under 15
3,595
3,581
Median age of population
56.1 yrs
54.1 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
62.7%
57.3%
Crude rate of total population change
-45.7 /1k
12.5 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-34.8 /1k
19.5 /1k
Crude birth rate
5.3 /1k
3.9 /1k
Crude death rate
16.1 /1k
11.0 /1k
Live births
187
145
Deaths
573
405
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
81.5%
74.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.38
0.89
Population density (persons per km²)
252 /km²
18 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
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30,112
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
23.4%
27.4%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
80.7 yrs
82.1 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
17.4%
24.6%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
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211 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,212 /100k
1,039 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
228 /100k
222 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
0.0 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
63.4 /100k
2.7 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
259 /100k
120 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,837 /100k
327 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
46 /M
113 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
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0.56
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
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0.42
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
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0.49
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
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0.32
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
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0.24
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.161/kWh
€0.143/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.055/kWh
€0.039/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
566 m
1,521 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
2 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
103 days/yr
107 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
11 days/yr