NUTS-3 DE40G · Germany
Spree-Neiße
Export region data (CSV)Spree-Neiße generates €5.7bn of GDP across 109.6k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 49.5/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and market access. Its economy has grown +9.9%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for digital connectivity (90th EU percentile) and weakest for health (33.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
49.5
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth50.8
Livability61.1
Market access51
Economic scale35
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)
12.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability10
Labour stability27
Diversification0
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)
56
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density90
Airport access27
Market access51
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)
27
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary17
Lifelong learning10
Knowledge workers43
Scientists & engineers38
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)
52.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.59.9 µg/m³
PM1015.3 µg/m³
NO26 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)
61.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy72
Jobs67
Education44
Health33.5
Safety67.7
Connectivity90
Environment53.3
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
50.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+9.9%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+5.1%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+4.8 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+5.7 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.7%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.0 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.4 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 · 60.2%Concentrated · HHI 4029
Agriculture 1.6%Industry 60.2%Construction 5.5%Trade · transport · ICT 8.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 10.4%Public · health · education 14%
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)
€5,198M
2023 · EU pctl 36
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€84M
2023 · EU pctl 32
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,129M
2023 · EU pctl 74
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€455M
2023 · EU pctl 19
GVA — construction (F)
€287M
2023 · EU pctl 31
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€430M
2023 · EU pctl 12
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€26,000
2023 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
45,700 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 84
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€51,300
2023 · EU pctl 85
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€23,042M
2023 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,607M
2023 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€47,281M
2023 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€543M
2023 · EU pctl 16
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€725M
2023 · EU pctl 18
Labour market
Employment, total persons
44,140
2023 · EU pctl 13
Self-employed persons
5,110
2023 · EU pctl 13
Employment in manufacturing (C)
7,020
2023 · EU pctl 18
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.0%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
7.3%
2019 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
3,876
2023 · EU pctl 12
Enterprise births
236
2023 · EU pctl 9
Enterprise deaths
332
2023 · EU pctl 15
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.7%
2023 · EU pctl 5
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
2
2012 · EU pctl 14
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
14 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 23
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.5%
2023 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.1%
2025 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
32.2%
2025 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
31.8%
2025 · EU pctl 17 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
6.4%
2025 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
21.9%
2025 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.6%
2025 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
738,235
2024 · EU pctl 43
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
584 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 41 · 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.
1,061
CURRENT · EU pctl 56
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
968
CURRENT · EU pctl 90
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
78
CURRENT · EU pctl 73
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)
62,108
2025 · EU pctl 14
Population aged 65+
34,417
2025 · EU pctl 28
Population aged under 15
13,110
2025 · EU pctl 14
Median age of population
55.2 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 100
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
55.4%
2025 · EU pctl 98
Crude rate of total population change
-8.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 7
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 35
Crude birth rate
4.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 1
Crude death rate
16.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 94
Live births
497
2024 · EU pctl 7
Deaths
1,779
2024 · EU pctl 28
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
76.5%
2025 · EU pctl 98
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.33
2024 · EU pctl 38
Population density (persons per km²)
68 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 26
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
19.6%
2025 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.0 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,113 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
245 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 72 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
28.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 61
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
440 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
756 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 47
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
45 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
58 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 17
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
11 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 65
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
53 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 44
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 14
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
15
2024 · EU pctl 57
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
6
2024 · EU pctl 11
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
53
2024 · EU pctl 43
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