NUTS-3 DE128 · Germany
Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
Export region data (CSV)Rhein-Neckar-Kreis generates €26bn of GDP across 558.6k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 74.1/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by market access and economic scale. Its economy has grown +4.0%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 2.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for education (84th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (48th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
74.1
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth49.6
Livability70.6
Market access90
Economic scale86
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)
51.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability46
Labour stability84
Diversification10
Demographic stability67
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)
57
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density48
Airport access33
Market access90
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)
68.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary69
Lifelong learning38
Knowledge workers75
Scientists & engineers91
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)
77
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.56.9 µg/m³
PM1011.1 µg/m³
NO210.2 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)
70.6
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy78
Jobs78
Education84
Health59.5
Safety69
Connectivity48
Environment77.7
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
49.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.7%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.7 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.4%
CAGR
Employment rate
+2.1 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: Trade · transport · ICT · 41%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2705
Agriculture 0.4%Industry 17.9%Construction 4.3%Trade · transport · ICT 41%Finance · real estate · prof. 21.3%Public · health · education 15.2%
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)
€23,488M
2023 · EU pctl 87
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€86M
2023 · EU pctl 33
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,197M
2023 · EU pctl 83
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,749M
2023 · EU pctl 86
GVA — construction (F)
€1,000M
2023 · EU pctl 79
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€9,638M
2023 · EU pctl 94
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€29,100
2023 · EU pctl 81 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
41,100 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 75
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€46,200
2023 · EU pctl 77
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€31,701M
2023 · EU pctl 83 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€6,099M
2023 · EU pctl 87 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€83,032M
2023 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€4,992M
2023 · EU pctl 83
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,575M
2023 · EU pctl 79
Labour market
Employment, total persons
247,100
2023 · EU pctl 80
Self-employed persons
23,860
2023 · EU pctl 63
Employment in manufacturing (C)
40,560
2023 · EU pctl 82
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
81.4%
2025 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
5.7%
2019 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
21,675
2023 · EU pctl 63
Enterprise births
2,037
2023 · EU pctl 63
Enterprise deaths
2,120
2023 · EU pctl 71
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.2%
2023 · EU pctl 47
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
294
2012 · EU pctl 98
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
545 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 97
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
5.9%
2023 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
9.1%
2025 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
40.0%
2025 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
45.6%
2025 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
9.3%
2025 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
27.5%
2025 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
13.0%
2025 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,292,872
2024 · EU pctl 58
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
597 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 50 · 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.
2,156
CURRENT · EU pctl 82
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
386
CURRENT · EU pctl 48
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
70
CURRENT · EU pctl 66
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
350,353
2025 · EU pctl 81
Population aged 65+
128,335
2025 · EU pctl 84
Population aged under 15
79,873
2025 · EU pctl 80
Median age of population
46.4 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 52
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
36.6%
2025 · EU pctl 50
Crude rate of total population change
1.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 54
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
4.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 46
Crude birth rate
8.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 56
Crude death rate
11.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 39
Live births
4,477
2024 · EU pctl 82
Deaths
6,116
2024 · EU pctl 82
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.4%
2025 · EU pctl 52
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.40
2024 · EU pctl 51
Population density (persons per km²)
530 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 83
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
20.5%
2025 · EU pctl 53 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.2 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
980 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
216 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 41
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
16.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 42
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
126 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 28
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
666 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 42
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
26 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
102 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 29
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
18 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 74
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
48 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 38
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.
11
2024 · EU pctl 12
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
10
2024 · EU pctl 36
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
52
2024 · EU pctl 40
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