NUTS-3 AT121 · Austria
Mostviertel-Eisenwurzen
Export region data (CSV)Mostviertel-Eisenwurzen generates €10bn of GDP across 250.8k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 49/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and livability. Its economy has grown +3.6%/yr over five years, with the employment rate up 1.9pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for economy (79.5th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (25.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
49
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth37.6
Livability51.5
Market access47
Economic scale60
Equal-weighted mean of four EU-percentile pillars (deliberately orthogonal: growth=trend, livability=quality, market=distance-weighted demand proxy, scale=absolute GDP). Experimental — a screening triage, not investment advice.
Resilience Index · downside / risk lens (experimental)
79.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability78
Labour stability96
Diversification82
Demographic stability61
Inverse of GDP-growth & unemployment volatility (since 2008, incl. 2009/2020 shocks), economic diversification (inverse HHI) and population stability — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher withstands downturns better. Experimental.
Connectivity Index · transit · air · market access (experimental)
32.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density6
Airport access45
Market access47
Public-transport stop density, proximity to a major airport, and gravity access to surrounding economic mass — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = better-connected. Experimental.
Talent & Human Capital Index · skills base (experimental)
56.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary44
Lifelong learning69
Knowledge workers53
Scientists & engineers61
Young tertiary attainment (25–34), adult lifelong learning, knowledge-worker share and scientists & engineers — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = deeper talent pool. Experimental.
Clean-Air Score · air-quality livability (experimental)
41.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.59.8 µg/m³
PM1015.1 µg/m³
NO212.2 µg/m³
PM2.5, PM10 & NO2 annual means from official monitoring networks, inverted (lower pollution = higher) and EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = cleaner air; ground-level ozone is shown separately. Experimental.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
51.5
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy79.5
Jobs52
Education58.5
Health46.5
Safety56
Connectivity25.5
Environment42.3
Equal-weighted percentile across 6 pillars vs all EU NUTS-3; lower-is-better indicators (crime, unemployment, mortality) inverted. Experimental — regional screening only.
Growth momentum · trend analytics
37.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.6%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.8%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.1 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-1.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.3%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.9 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.2 pp
5-yr change
Compound annual growth to the latest available year vs all EU NUTS-3; GDP is nominal EUR (“vs country avg” removes most national inflation). Screening signal, not a forecast.
Economic structure · gross value added by sector
Dominant: Industry · 30%Diversified · HHI 2058
Agriculture 4.7%Industry 30%Construction 9.4%Trade · transport · ICT 17.7%Finance · real estate · prof. 20.8%Public · health · education 17.5%
Share of total GVA (latest year). HHI = sum of squared sector shares ×10,000; higher means a more concentrated, single-sector-dependent economy (more cyclicality risk).
All indicators · 70 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€9,144M
2023 · EU pctl 60
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€427M
2023 · EU pctl 84
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,740M
2023 · EU pctl 69
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,463M
2023 · EU pctl 74
GVA — construction (F)
€863M
2023 · EU pctl 76
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,617M
2023 · EU pctl 55
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€31,600
2024 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
36,000 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 62
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€40,600
2023 · EU pctl 66
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€18,609M
2023 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,844M
2023 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€35,602M
2023 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,899M
2023 · EU pctl 59
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,597M
2023 · EU pctl 52
Labour market
Employment, total persons
108,900
2023 · EU pctl 47
Self-employed persons
15,900
2023 · EU pctl 51
Employment in manufacturing (C)
26,000
2023 · EU pctl 66
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
79.4%
2025 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
8.0%
2025 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
13,701
2023 · EU pctl 50
Enterprise births
897
2023 · EU pctl 40
Enterprise deaths
597
2023 · EU pctl 33
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.4%
2023 · EU pctl 3
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
65
2012 · EU pctl 82
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
271 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 84
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.8%
2023 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.4%
2025 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
36.7%
2025 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
39.5%
2025 · EU pctl 44 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
13.7%
2025 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
23.5%
2025 · EU pctl 53 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
9.2%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
95.0%
2025 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
724,183
2025 · EU pctl 43
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
663 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
4
CURRENT · EU pctl 5
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 6
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
59
CURRENT · EU pctl 54
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
CURRENT · EU pctl 15
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
160,504
2025 · EU pctl 50
Population aged 65+
51,608
2025 · EU pctl 43
Population aged under 15
38,680
2025 · EU pctl 54
Median age of population
44.3 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 29
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.2%
2025 · EU pctl 22
Crude rate of total population change
0.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 46
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
1.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 22
Crude birth rate
8.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Crude death rate
10.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 24
Live births
2,149
2024 · EU pctl 56
Deaths
2,523
2024 · EU pctl 42
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
56.3%
2025 · EU pctl 29
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.47
2024 · EU pctl 64
Population density (persons per km²)
76 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 30
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
13.5%
2025 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.8 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
647 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,047 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
230 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 32
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
6.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 13
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
362 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 76
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
659 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 42
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
49 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
533 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 83
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
5 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 33
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
85 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 78
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
10 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 84
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
15
2024 · EU pctl 55
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12
2024 · EU pctl 48
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
53
2024 · EU pctl 43
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