NUTS-3 DE737 · Germany
Werra-Meißner-Kreis
Export region data (CSV)Werra-Meißner-Kreis generates €3.5bn of GDP across 97.7k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 47/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and market access. Its economy has grown +6.4%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 2.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (93th EU percentile) and weakest for health (29.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
47
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth39.8
Livability64
Market access64
Economic scale20
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)
28
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability38
Labour stability48
Diversification9
Demographic stability17
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)
71.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density88
Airport access62
Market access64
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)
29.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary17
Lifelong learning25
Knowledge workers32
Scientists & engineers45
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)
92
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.56.3 µg/m³
PM109.7 µg/m³
NO23.5 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)
64
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy56.5
Jobs73
Education40.5
Health29.5
Safety67.7
Connectivity88
Environment93
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
39.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+6.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+2.2 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+2.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+2.1 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.8 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: Public · health · education · 42.8%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2738
Agriculture 1.6%Industry 17.8%Construction 5.5%Trade · transport · ICT 12.2%Finance · real estate · prof. 20.1%Public · health · education 42.8%
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)
€3,238M
2023 · EU pctl 20
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€51M
2023 · EU pctl 21
GVA — industry (B–E)
€575M
2023 · EU pctl 16
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€493M
2023 · EU pctl 22
GVA — construction (F)
€177M
2023 · EU pctl 16
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€395M
2023 · EU pctl 11
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€26,900
2023 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
32,200 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 47
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€36,200
2023 · EU pctl 53
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€11,649M
2023 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,829M
2023 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€32,339M
2023 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€652M
2023 · EU pctl 21
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,387M
2023 · EU pctl 46
Labour market
Employment, total persons
42,840
2023 · EU pctl 12
Self-employed persons
4,460
2023 · EU pctl 10
Employment in manufacturing (C)
6,020
2023 · EU pctl 15
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.7%
2025 · EU pctl 72 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
3,291
2023 · EU pctl 8
Enterprise births
261
2023 · EU pctl 10
Enterprise deaths
270
2023 · EU pctl 11
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.0%
2023 · EU pctl 9
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
7
2012 · EU pctl 32
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
69 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 44
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.5%
2023 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.7%
2025 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
30.6%
2025 · EU pctl 30 · 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)
8.2%
2025 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
20.8%
2025 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
8.0%
2025 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
349,328
2024 · EU pctl 23
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
642 /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.
852
CURRENT · EU pctl 49
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
872
CURRENT · EU pctl 88
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
44
CURRENT · EU pctl 38
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)
58,978
2025 · EU pctl 13
Population aged 65+
26,267
2025 · EU pctl 17
Population aged under 15
12,450
2025 · EU pctl 12
Median age of population
50.6 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 88
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
44.5%
2025 · EU pctl 84
Crude rate of total population change
-3.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 22
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 53
Crude birth rate
7.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 35
Crude death rate
15.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 93
Live births
694
2024 · EU pctl 14
Deaths
1,550
2024 · EU pctl 22
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
65.6%
2025 · EU pctl 82
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.43
2024 · EU pctl 56
Population density (persons per km²)
96 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 39
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
24.0%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.6 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,078 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
227 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 44 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
27.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 60
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
164 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 39
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
687 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 43
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
47 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
323 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 63
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 26
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
69 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 62
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 2
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.
4
2024 · EU pctl 4
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
70
2024 · EU pctl 94
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