NUTS-3 AT341 · Austria
Bludenz-Bregenzer Wald
Export region data (CSV)Bludenz-Bregenzer Wald generates €6.1bn of GDP across 95k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 57.4/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +7.0%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 0.4pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for economy (95th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (43th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
57.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth51.6
Livability67.1
Market access72
Economic scale39
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)
52.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability19
Labour stability91
Diversification21
Demographic stability78
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)
65
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density83
Airport access40
Market access72
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)
47.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary37
Lifelong learning71
Knowledge workers31
Scientists & engineers50
Young tertiary attainment (25–34), adult lifelong learning, knowledge-worker share and scientists & engineers — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = deeper talent pool. Experimental.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
67.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy95
Jobs54
Education53.5
Health77
Safety68.3
Connectivity79
Environment43
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
51.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+7.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+5.0%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.9 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+2.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+0.4 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.7 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 · 34.5%Diversified · HHI 2474
Agriculture 1%Industry 34.5%Construction 8.6%Trade · transport · ICT 28.8%Finance · real estate · prof. 16.3%Public · health · education 10.9%
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 · 68 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€5,515M
2023 · EU pctl 39
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€55M
2023 · EU pctl 23
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,900M
2023 · EU pctl 56
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,270M
2023 · EU pctl 50
GVA — construction (F)
€477M
2023 · EU pctl 51
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,586M
2023 · EU pctl 54
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€31,000
2024 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
57,400 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 94
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€64,800
2023 · EU pctl 94
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€5,346M
2023 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,306M
2023 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€10,571M
2023 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€898M
2023 · EU pctl 31
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€601M
2023 · EU pctl 13
Labour market
Employment, total persons
49,200
2023 · EU pctl 16
Self-employed persons
6,600
2023 · EU pctl 22
Employment in manufacturing (C)
10,800
2023 · EU pctl 32
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.4%
2025 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
6,831
2023 · EU pctl 28
Enterprise births
317
2023 · EU pctl 14
Enterprise deaths
270
2023 · EU pctl 11
3-year enterprise survival rate
1.9%
2023 · EU pctl 0
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
36
2012 · EU pctl 68
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
405 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 94
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.9%
2023 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.2%
2025 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
32.4%
2025 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
36.6%
2025 · EU pctl 37 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
14.3%
2025 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
20.6%
2025 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
8.6%
2025 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.8%
2025 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
6,273,048
2025 · EU pctl 90
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
543 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 29 · 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.
753
CURRENT · EU pctl 45
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
792
CURRENT · EU pctl 83
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.
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
61,435
2025 · EU pctl 14
Population aged 65+
18,612
2025 · EU pctl 8
Population aged under 15
14,982
2025 · EU pctl 18
Median age of population
43.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 23
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
30.3%
2025 · EU pctl 15
Crude rate of total population change
0.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 46
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-0.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 12
Crude birth rate
8.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 80
Crude death rate
8.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 8
Live births
841
2024 · EU pctl 19
Deaths
794
2024 · EU pctl 6
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
54.7%
2025 · EU pctl 20
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.47
2024 · EU pctl 64
Population density (persons per km²)
51 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 18
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
21.6%
2025 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.9 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
519 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
863 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
196 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
44.2 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 79
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
621 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,129 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 93
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
17 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
1,873 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 99
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 0
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
231 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 99
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
23 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 98
Environment
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 57
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
49
2024 · EU pctl 22
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