NUTS-3 DE111 · Germany
Stuttgart, Stadtkreis
Export region data (CSV)Stuttgart, Stadtkreis generates €72bn of GDP across 612.7k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 74/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and market access. Its economy has grown +5.0%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 2.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for economy (96.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (32.3th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
74
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth41.4
Livability64.5
Market access93
Economic scale97
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)
36.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability32
Labour stability86
Diversification15
Demographic stability14
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)
76
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density40
Airport access95
Market access93
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)
60
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary58
Lifelong learning31
Knowledge workers68
Scientists & engineers83
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)
31
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.5 µg/m³
PM1015.8 µg/m³
NO226.1 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)
64.5
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy96.5
Jobs78.5
Education81.5
Health65
Safety57.7
Connectivity40
Environment32.3
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
41.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.7%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.8 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.7%
CAGR
Employment rate
+2.0 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.1 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: Finance · real estate · prof. · 32.2%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2614
Industry 31.8%Construction 2.6%Trade · transport · ICT 16.8%Finance · real estate · prof. 32.2%Public · health · education 16.6%
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)
€66,068M
2023 · EU pctl 97
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€26M
2023 · EU pctl 13
GVA — industry (B–E)
€21,021M
2023 · EU pctl 99
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€19,745M
2023 · EU pctl 99
GVA — construction (F)
€1,694M
2023 · EU pctl 91
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€11,084M
2023 · EU pctl 95
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€30,800
2023 · EU pctl 94 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
105,200 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 99
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€118,100
2023 · EU pctl 99
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€60,881M
2023 · EU pctl 94 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€22,211M
2023 · EU pctl 99 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€139,588M
2023 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€21,304M
2023 · EU pctl 97
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€10,937M
2023 · EU pctl 95
Labour market
Employment, total persons
548,450
2023 · EU pctl 95
Self-employed persons
32,380
2023 · EU pctl 73
Employment in manufacturing (C)
77,320
2023 · EU pctl 95
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
82.6%
2025 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
6.9%
2025 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
26,251
2023 · EU pctl 69
Enterprise births
2,369
2023 · EU pctl 68
Enterprise deaths
2,494
2023 · EU pctl 74
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.8%
2023 · EU pctl 61
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
320
2012 · EU pctl 98
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
521 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 97
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
7.3%
2023 · EU pctl 99 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.8%
2025 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
38.0%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
43.1%
2025 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
9.0%
2025 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
26.4%
2025 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
11.3%
2025 · EU pctl 83 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
4,608,646
2024 · EU pctl 86
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
636 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 71 · 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.
1,803
CURRENT · EU pctl 76
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
294
CURRENT · EU pctl 40
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
11
CURRENT · EU pctl 5
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)
419,536
2025 · EU pctl 86
Population aged 65+
112,905
2025 · EU pctl 78
Population aged under 15
80,222
2025 · EU pctl 80
Median age of population
40.6 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 6
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
26.9%
2025 · EU pctl 6
Crude rate of total population change
-0.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 40
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-0.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 11
Crude birth rate
8.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 79
Crude death rate
8.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 11
Live births
5,381
2024 · EU pctl 87
Deaths
5,475
2024 · EU pctl 78
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
46.0%
2025 · EU pctl 2
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.12
2024 · EU pctl 11
Population density (persons per km²)
2,975 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 98
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
17.1%
2025 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.3 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
938 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
199 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 27
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
107 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
359 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 76
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,801 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 88
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
27 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
295 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 60
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
10 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 60
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
66 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 59
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 33
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
16
2024 · EU pctl 59
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
26
2024 · EU pctl 97
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
40
2024 · EU pctl 2
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