NUTS-3 AT223 · Austria
Östliche Obersteiermark
Export region data (CSV)Östliche Obersteiermark generates €7.6bn of GDP across 156.1k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 42.4/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and economic scale. Its economy has grown +3.8%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.3pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for economy (86th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (24th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
42.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth23.8
Livability51.6
Market access46
Economic scale48
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)
43.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability31
Labour stability95
Diversification19
Demographic stability29
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)
31.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density8
Airport access40
Market access46
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)
66.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary63
Lifelong learning78
Knowledge workers53
Scientists & engineers72
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)
32.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.510 µg/m³
PM1017.5 µg/m³
NO213.5 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)
51.6
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy86
Jobs42
Education73
Health64.5
Safety38.3
Connectivity24
Environment33.7
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
23.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.9 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.3%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.3 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.6 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 · 40.1%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2529
Agriculture 2.3%Industry 40.1%Construction 6.6%Trade · transport · ICT 16.1%Finance · real estate · prof. 16.2%Public · health · education 18.7%
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)
€6,801M
2023 · EU pctl 48
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€157M
2023 · EU pctl 52
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,729M
2023 · EU pctl 68
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,432M
2023 · EU pctl 73
GVA — construction (F)
€450M
2023 · EU pctl 49
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,094M
2023 · EU pctl 38
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€30,700
2024 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
42,500 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 79
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€48,000
2023 · EU pctl 81
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€15,264M
2023 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,445M
2023 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€31,076M
2023 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,099M
2023 · EU pctl 39
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,273M
2023 · EU pctl 42
Labour market
Employment, total persons
74,200
2023 · EU pctl 32
Self-employed persons
7,400
2023 · EU pctl 25
Employment in manufacturing (C)
21,100
2023 · EU pctl 57
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
78.7%
2025 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
11.3%
2025 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
7,681
2023 · EU pctl 31
Enterprise births
479
2023 · EU pctl 23
Enterprise deaths
425
2023 · EU pctl 23
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.2%
2023 · EU pctl 1
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
29
2012 · EU pctl 65
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
176 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 70
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
5.3%
2023 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.9%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
34.9%
2025 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
43.8%
2025 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
16.1%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
23.4%
2025 · EU pctl 53 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
10.3%
2025 · EU pctl 72 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.7%
2025 · EU pctl 40 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
709,455
2025 · EU pctl 42
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
626 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 68 · 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).
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 8
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
63
CURRENT · EU pctl 60
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)
95,740
2025 · EU pctl 31
Population aged 65+
41,560
2025 · EU pctl 35
Population aged under 15
18,848
2025 · EU pctl 26
Median age of population
49.9 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 84
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
43.4%
2025 · EU pctl 81
Crude rate of total population change
-7.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 11
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-0.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 11
Crude birth rate
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Crude death rate
13.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 71
Live births
1,035
2024 · EU pctl 26
Deaths
2,041
2024 · EU pctl 33
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
63.1%
2025 · EU pctl 74
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.29
2024 · EU pctl 32
Population density (persons per km²)
49 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 16
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
18.9%
2025 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.4 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
729 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
954 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
228 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
12.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 31
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
348 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 74
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
731 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 46
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
50 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
693 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 90
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 15
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
104 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 89
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 74
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
18
2024 · EU pctl 70
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 56
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
57
2024 · EU pctl 65
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