NUTS-3 DE254 · Germany
Nürnberg, Kreisfreie Stadt
Export region data (CSV)Nürnberg, Kreisfreie Stadt generates €39bn of GDP across 529.5k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 67.7/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and market access. Its economy has grown +3.5%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 4.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for economy (92th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (31th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
67.7
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth48.4
Livability57.2
Market access73
Economic scale92
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)
59.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability84
Labour stability62
Diversification23
Demographic stability70
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)
71.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density43
Airport access98
Market access73
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)
62.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary67
Lifelong learning38
Knowledge workers65
Scientists & engineers81
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)
30.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.4 µg/m³
PM1017.2 µg/m³
NO222.7 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)
57.2
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy92
Jobs75
Education70
Health41
Safety48.7
Connectivity43
Environment31
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
48.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.7 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.4%
CAGR
Employment rate
+4.2 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
0.0 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. · 30.7%Diversified · HHI 2448
Agriculture 0.1%Industry 16.8%Construction 3.6%Trade · transport · ICT 27.6%Finance · real estate · prof. 30.7%Public · health · education 21.2%
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 · 67 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€35,285M
2023 · EU pctl 93
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€37M
2023 · EU pctl 16
GVA — industry (B–E)
€5,932M
2023 · EU pctl 90
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€5,105M
2023 · EU pctl 92
GVA — construction (F)
€1,273M
2023 · EU pctl 86
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€9,732M
2023 · EU pctl 94
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€30,000
2023 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
65,500 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 96
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€73,600
2023 · EU pctl 96
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€21,016M
2023 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,272M
2023 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€54,755M
2023 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€10,823M
2023 · EU pctl 94
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€7,487M
2023 · EU pctl 93
Labour market
Employment, total persons
406,850
2023 · EU pctl 92
Self-employed persons
25,650
2023 · EU pctl 65
Employment in manufacturing (C)
45,670
2023 · EU pctl 85
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
82.9%
2025 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
20,954
2023 · EU pctl 62
Enterprise births
1,867
2023 · EU pctl 60
Enterprise deaths
1,911
2023 · EU pctl 68
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.2%
2023 · EU pctl 44
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
170
2012 · EU pctl 95
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
332 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 89
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.5%
2023 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.8%
2025 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
38.6%
2025 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
45.4%
2025 · EU pctl 67 · 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)
25.8%
2025 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
11.0%
2025 · EU pctl 81 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,855,241
2024 · EU pctl 83
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
594 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 49 · 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.
1,815
CURRENT · EU pctl 76
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
343
CURRENT · EU pctl 43
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
7
CURRENT · EU pctl 2
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)
351,658
2025 · EU pctl 81
Population aged 65+
107,104
2025 · EU pctl 77
Population aged under 15
70,746
2025 · EU pctl 77
Median age of population
42.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 15
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
30.5%
2025 · EU pctl 15
Crude rate of total population change
5.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
7.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 74
Crude birth rate
9.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 83
Crude death rate
11.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 39
Live births
4,753
2024 · EU pctl 84
Deaths
5,834
2024 · EU pctl 80
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
50.6%
2025 · EU pctl 8
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.29
2024 · EU pctl 32
Population density (persons per km²)
2,854 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 98
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
18.6%
2025 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.4 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,065 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
225 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 43
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
59.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 86
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
413 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,701 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 86
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
33 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
312 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 62
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
11 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 63
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
75 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 69
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 46
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
17
2024 · EU pctl 69
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
23
2024 · EU pctl 92
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 26
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