NUTS-3 DE261 · Germany
Aschaffenburg, Kreisfreie Stadt
Export region data (CSV)Aschaffenburg, Kreisfreie Stadt generates €6.2bn of GDP across 73.1k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 55.5/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +4.0%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 2.7pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for economy (92.5th EU percentile) and weakest for safety (33.3th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
55.5
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth36.4
Livability61.5
Market access85
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)
56.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability40
Labour stability72
Diversification35
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)
69.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density59
Airport access64
Market access85
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)
46
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary55
Lifelong learning29
Knowledge workers46
Scientists & engineers54
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)
48.5
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.57.2 µg/m³
PM10—
NO217.1 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)
61.5
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy92.5
Jobs86
Education56
Health54
Safety33.3
Connectivity59
Environment49.5
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
36.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.8%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.2 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+2.7 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+1.0 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: Industry · 27.5%Diversified · HHI 2344
Agriculture 0.1%Industry 27.5%Construction 4.4%Trade · transport · ICT 26.7%Finance · real estate · prof. 21.5%Public · health · education 19.7%
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 · 66 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€5,627M
2023 · EU pctl 40
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€7M
2023 · EU pctl 4
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,548M
2023 · EU pctl 48
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,320M
2023 · EU pctl 51
GVA — construction (F)
€246M
2023 · EU pctl 26
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,504M
2023 · EU pctl 52
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€29,800
2023 · EU pctl 87 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
75,900 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 98
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€85,200
2023 · EU pctl 98
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€12,277M
2023 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,933M
2023 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€34,752M
2023 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,212M
2023 · EU pctl 42
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,111M
2023 · EU pctl 36
Labour market
Employment, total persons
61,400
2023 · EU pctl 24
Self-employed persons
4,370
2023 · EU pctl 9
Employment in manufacturing (C)
9,140
2023 · EU pctl 26
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
82.6%
2025 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
3,707
2023 · EU pctl 11
Enterprise births
268
2023 · EU pctl 10
Enterprise deaths
278
2023 · EU pctl 11
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.0%
2023 · EU pctl 39
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
24
2012 · EU pctl 60
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
348 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 90
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.0%
2023 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.9%
2025 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
34.3%
2025 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
42.5%
2025 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
8.8%
2025 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
22.4%
2025 · EU pctl 46 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
8.8%
2025 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
281,988
2024 · EU pctl 17
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
665 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 83 · 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.
359
CURRENT · EU pctl 31
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
491
CURRENT · EU pctl 59
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
42
CURRENT · EU pctl 36
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)
47,215
2025 · EU pctl 8
Population aged 65+
16,118
2025 · EU pctl 6
Population aged under 15
9,758
2025 · EU pctl 8
Median age of population
44.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 32
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
34.1%
2025 · EU pctl 33
Crude rate of total population change
7.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 86
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
9.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 84
Crude birth rate
8.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 76
Crude death rate
10.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 32
Live births
633
2024 · EU pctl 11
Deaths
773
2024 · EU pctl 6
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
54.8%
2025 · EU pctl 20
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.36
2024 · EU pctl 43
Population density (persons per km²)
1,194 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 91
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
16.5%
2025 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.0 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,004 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 46 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
208 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
62.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 87
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
211 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 50
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,508 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
39 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 37 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
109 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 30
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
13 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 68
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
52 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 42
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 48
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.
17
2024 · EU pctl 76
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
46
2024 · EU pctl 11
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