NUTS-3 DE916 · Germany
Goslar
Export region data (CSV)Goslar generates €4.7bn of GDP across 126.8k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 46.1/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and market access. Its economy has grown +2.1%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 3.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (92.7th EU percentile) and weakest for health (32.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
46.1
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth30.2
Livability64.1
Market access62
Economic scale28
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)
37.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability62
Labour stability44
Diversification42
Demographic stability3
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)
57
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density84
Airport access25
Market access62
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)
54.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary40
Lifelong learning45
Knowledge workers57
Scientists & engineers76
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)
92.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.55.8 µg/m³
PM109.7 µg/m³
NO24.8 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)
64.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy56.5
Jobs59
Education74
Health32.5
Safety50.3
Connectivity84
Environment92.7
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
30.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+2.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.8%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.7 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-2.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-1.4%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.8 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.6 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 · 28.4%Diversified · HHI 2297
Agriculture 1.5%Industry 25.5%Construction 4.3%Trade · transport · ICT 18.2%Finance · real estate · prof. 22.1%Public · health · education 28.4%
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 · 68 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€4,276M
2023 · EU pctl 28
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€65M
2023 · EU pctl 26
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,092M
2023 · EU pctl 35
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€879M
2023 · EU pctl 36
GVA — construction (F)
€183M
2023 · EU pctl 18
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€777M
2023 · EU pctl 28
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€26,800
2023 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
32,600 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 48
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€36,600
2023 · EU pctl 55
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€22,342M
2023 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€7,903M
2023 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€43,988M
2023 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€945M
2023 · EU pctl 33
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,213M
2023 · EU pctl 39
Labour market
Employment, total persons
62,130
2023 · EU pctl 24
Self-employed persons
6,470
2023 · EU pctl 21
Employment in manufacturing (C)
8,990
2023 · EU pctl 25
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
79.0%
2025 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
6.6%
2019 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
4,336
2023 · EU pctl 15
Enterprise births
319
2023 · EU pctl 14
Enterprise deaths
367
2023 · EU pctl 18
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.2%
2023 · EU pctl 13
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
14
2012 · EU pctl 46
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
100 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 53
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
5.9%
2023 · EU pctl 98 · 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
34.9%
2025 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
38.1%
2025 · EU pctl 40 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
9.8%
2025 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
24.8%
2025 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
10.6%
2025 · EU pctl 76 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,291,180
2024 · EU pctl 73
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
640 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 74 · 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.
1,011
CURRENT · EU pctl 54
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
798
CURRENT · EU pctl 84
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
81
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
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)
76,180
2025 · EU pctl 21
Population aged 65+
36,081
2025 · EU pctl 30
Population aged under 15
14,514
2025 · EU pctl 17
Median age of population
51.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 93
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
47.4%
2025 · EU pctl 89
Crude rate of total population change
-7.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 10
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 39
Crude birth rate
6.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 21
Crude death rate
17.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 97
Live births
818
2024 · EU pctl 18
Deaths
2,202
2024 · EU pctl 36
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
66.4%
2025 · EU pctl 84
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.30
2024 · EU pctl 34
Population density (persons per km²)
133 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 51
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
21.9%
2025 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.5 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,055 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
245 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 57
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
24.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 55
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
282 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 64
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,184 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 71
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
31 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
578 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 85
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 10
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
89 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 81
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
7 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 74
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.
5
2024 · EU pctl 8
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
68
2024 · EU pctl 92
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