NUTS-3 DE27E · Germany
Oberallgäu
Export region data (CSV)Oberallgäu generates €6.6bn of GDP across 155.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 57.2/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +4.3%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 1.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (96.5th EU percentile) and weakest for education (42.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
57.2
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth38.8
Livability73
Market access75
Economic scale42
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)
69.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability81
Labour stability87
Diversification71
Demographic stability40
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)
73.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density88
Airport access58
Market access75
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)
40.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary43
Lifelong learning15
Knowledge workers46
Scientists & engineers58
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)
96
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.5—
PM109.6 µg/m³
NO23 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)
73
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy78.5
Jobs95
Education42.5
Health57
Safety53.3
Connectivity88
Environment96.5
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
38.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.3%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.7%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.1 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.2 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 · 27.7%Diversified · HHI 2130
Agriculture 2.3%Industry 27.7%Construction 8.1%Trade · transport · ICT 18.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 23.5%Public · health · education 20.1%
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)
€5,991M
2023 · EU pctl 43
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€138M
2023 · EU pctl 48
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,662M
2023 · EU pctl 51
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,474M
2023 · EU pctl 55
GVA — construction (F)
€484M
2023 · EU pctl 52
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,094M
2023 · EU pctl 39
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€30,100
2023 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
38,200 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 67
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€42,900
2023 · EU pctl 71
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€20,600M
2023 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,395M
2023 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€49,117M
2023 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,406M
2023 · EU pctl 47
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,206M
2023 · EU pctl 39
Labour market
Employment, total persons
80,190
2023 · EU pctl 36
Self-employed persons
9,850
2023 · EU pctl 34
Employment in manufacturing (C)
17,350
2023 · EU pctl 50
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
83.6%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
4.4%
2019 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
8,322
2023 · EU pctl 34
Enterprise births
624
2023 · EU pctl 32
Enterprise deaths
582
2023 · EU pctl 31
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.9%
2023 · EU pctl 35
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
35
2012 · EU pctl 68
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
234 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 80
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.4%
2023 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.6%
2025 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
34.1%
2025 · EU pctl 46 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
38.8%
2025 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
7.1%
2025 · EU pctl 15 · 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)
9.1%
2025 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
5,422,121
2024 · EU pctl 88
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
639 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 72 · 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.
1,360
CURRENT · EU pctl 66
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
875
CURRENT · EU pctl 88
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
47
CURRENT · EU pctl 42
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)
95,489
2025 · EU pctl 30
Population aged 65+
37,379
2025 · EU pctl 31
Population aged under 15
22,545
2025 · EU pctl 33
Median age of population
47.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 63
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
39.1%
2025 · EU pctl 64
Crude rate of total population change
13.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
15.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Crude birth rate
9.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Crude death rate
11.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 44
Live births
1,398
2024 · EU pctl 39
Deaths
1,742
2024 · EU pctl 26
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
62.8%
2025 · EU pctl 72
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.62
2024 · EU pctl 90
Population density (persons per km²)
102 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 41
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
14.5%
2025 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.1 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
989 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
211 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
4.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 7
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
46.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 6
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
396 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
39 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 37 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
784 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 92
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 13
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
119 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 92
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
20 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 96
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
10
2024 · EU pctl 5
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
3
2024 · EU pctl 2
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
65
2024 · EU pctl 89
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