NUTS-3 DE600 · Germany
Hamburg
Export region data (CSV)Hamburg generates €155bn of GDP across 1.9m residents. Its Opportunity Index of 65/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and market access. Its economy has grown +4.5%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate down 0.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for economy (92.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (32.7th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
65
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth35
Livability53.8
Market access72
Economic scale99
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)
48
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability54
Labour stability72
Diversification12
Demographic stability54
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)
68.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density36
Airport access98
Market access72
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)
79.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary79
Lifelong learning59
Knowledge workers89
Scientists & engineers90
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)
32
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.59 µg/m³
PM1015.2 µg/m³
NO220.4 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)
53.8
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy92.5
Jobs43
Education80.5
Health46.5
Safety45.7
Connectivity36
Environment32.7
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
35
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.6 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.3 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.2%
CAGR
Employment rate
-0.2 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.5 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. · 33%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2644
Agriculture 0.1%Industry 13.9%Construction 2.8%Trade · transport · ICT 31.9%Finance · real estate · prof. 33%Public · health · education 18.4%
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 · 70 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€141,628M
2023 · EU pctl 99
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€87M
2023 · EU pctl 33
GVA — industry (B–E)
€19,635M
2023 · EU pctl 99
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€16,072M
2023 · EU pctl 99
GVA — construction (F)
€3,964M
2023 · EU pctl 98
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€45,176M
2023 · EU pctl 99
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€29,900
2023 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
75,000 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 97
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€84,200
2023 · EU pctl 98
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€27,332M
2023 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,502M
2023 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€78,264M
2023 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€12,347M
2018 · EU pctl 99
GVA — information & communication (J)
€8,654M
2018 · EU pctl 97
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€46,715M
2023 · EU pctl 99
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€26,051M
2023 · EU pctl 99
Labour market
Employment, total persons
1,358,510
2024 · EU pctl 99
Self-employed persons
103,250
2023 · EU pctl 97
Employment in manufacturing (C)
109,100
2023 · EU pctl 98
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
78.7%
2025 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
8.3%
2019 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
91,932
2023 · EU pctl 95
Enterprise births
10,052
2023 · EU pctl 94
Enterprise deaths
9,414
2023 · EU pctl 95
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.6%
2023 · EU pctl 56
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
362
2012 · EU pctl 98
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
201 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 74
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.6%
2023 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
7.4%
2025 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
43.0%
2025 · EU pctl 83 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
48.7%
2025 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
11.4%
2025 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
31.4%
2025 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
12.4%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
16,068,105
2024 · EU pctl 97
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
435 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 9 · 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.
4,766
CURRENT · EU pctl 96
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
256
CURRENT · EU pctl 36
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.
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
1,260,836
2025 · EU pctl 99
Population aged 65+
336,092
2025 · EU pctl 98
Population aged under 15
265,637
2025 · EU pctl 98
Median age of population
41.0 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 7
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
26.7%
2025 · EU pctl 5
Crude rate of total population change
5.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 79
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 66
Crude birth rate
9.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 91
Crude death rate
10.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 22
Live births
17,553
2024 · EU pctl 99
Deaths
18,591
2024 · EU pctl 99
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
47.7%
2025 · EU pctl 4
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.24
2024 · EU pctl 25
Population density (persons per km²)
2,616 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 97
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
23.8%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.2 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,002 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 46 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
248 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 61
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
127 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 97
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
469 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 87
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
3,255 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 99
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
21 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
23 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 8
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
5 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 30
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
49 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 39
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 20
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 56
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
20
2024 · EU pctl 88
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
51
2024 · EU pctl 36
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