NUTS-3 DE722 · Germany
Lahn-Dill-Kreis
Export region data (CSV)Lahn-Dill-Kreis generates €11bn of GDP across 254.1k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 66.6/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by market access and economic scale. Its economy has grown +3.8%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 6.5pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for jobs (79.5th EU percentile) and weakest for health (31.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
66.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth57.4
Livability60
Market access86
Economic scale63
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)
47
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability49
Labour stability64
Diversification27
Demographic stability48
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)
64.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density75
Airport access33
Market access86
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)
43
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary41
Lifelong learning54
Knowledge workers46
Scientists & engineers31
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)
44.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.1 µg/m³
PM1014 µg/m³
NO218.7 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)
60
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy65.5
Jobs79.5
Education59.5
Health31.5
Safety63.7
Connectivity75
Environment45.3
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
57.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.4%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+6.5 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-2.5 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: Industry · 34%Diversified · HHI 2409
Agriculture 0.3%Industry 34%Construction 5.3%Trade · transport · ICT 18.5%Finance · real estate · prof. 21.8%Public · health · education 20.2%
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)
€10,003M
2023 · EU pctl 64
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€26M
2023 · EU pctl 13
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,405M
2023 · EU pctl 77
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,182M
2023 · EU pctl 82
GVA — construction (F)
€529M
2023 · EU pctl 57
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,847M
2023 · EU pctl 60
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€26,600
2023 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
38,400 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 68
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€43,100
2023 · EU pctl 72
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€10,597M
2023 · EU pctl 37 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,976M
2023 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€25,139M
2023 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,177M
2023 · EU pctl 64
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,018M
2023 · EU pctl 61
Labour market
Employment, total persons
129,170
2023 · EU pctl 54
Self-employed persons
10,450
2023 · EU pctl 36
Employment in manufacturing (C)
35,150
2023 · EU pctl 76
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
78.7%
2025 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
9,193
2023 · EU pctl 37
Enterprise births
711
2023 · EU pctl 36
Enterprise deaths
798
2023 · EU pctl 43
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.9%
2023 · EU pctl 35
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
57
2012 · EU pctl 79
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
227 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 78
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.6%
2023 · EU pctl 76 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.0%
2025 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
32.5%
2025 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
38.2%
2025 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
10.6%
2025 · EU pctl 54 · 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)
7.3%
2025 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
454,523
2024 · EU pctl 30
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
641 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 77 · 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.
1,708
CURRENT · EU pctl 74
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
672
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
70
CURRENT · EU pctl 67
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)
158,730
2025 · EU pctl 50
Population aged 65+
59,223
2025 · EU pctl 50
Population aged under 15
36,121
2025 · EU pctl 51
Median age of population
46.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 55
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
37.3%
2025 · EU pctl 54
Crude rate of total population change
-1.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 34
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 41
Crude birth rate
8.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 59
Crude death rate
13.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 75
Live births
2,061
2024 · EU pctl 54
Deaths
3,383
2024 · EU pctl 56
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
60.1%
2025 · EU pctl 57
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.49
2024 · EU pctl 69
Population density (persons per km²)
239 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 69
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
24.6%
2025 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.6 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,062 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
236 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 32
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
26.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 58
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
161 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 38
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
884 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 56
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
31 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
192 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 47
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
8 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 48
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
53 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 44
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 48
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 41
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
19
2024 · EU pctl 83
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
41
2024 · EU pctl 4
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