NUTS-3 DE925 · Germany
Hildesheim
Export region data (CSV)Hildesheim generates €9.8bn of GDP across 267.5k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 50.6/100 is mid-table 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 1.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for education (68.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (33.7th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
50.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth26.2
Livability50.3
Market access67
Economic scale59
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)
47.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability80
Labour stability45
Diversification47
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)
61.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density56
Airport access61
Market access67
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)
57.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary45
Lifelong learning55
Knowledge workers59
Scientists & engineers71
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)
32.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.5 µg/m³
PM1015.1 µg/m³
NO225.8 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)
50.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy59
Jobs57
Education68.5
Health34.5
Safety43.7
Connectivity56
Environment33.7
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
26.2
/ 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
-0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.1 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.2 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 · 29.8%Diversified · HHI 2265
Agriculture 1.5%Industry 23.8%Construction 5.8%Trade · transport · ICT 17.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 21.8%Public · health · education 29.8%
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)
€8,944M
2023 · EU pctl 59
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€134M
2023 · EU pctl 47
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,131M
2023 · EU pctl 60
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,755M
2023 · EU pctl 62
GVA — construction (F)
€520M
2023 · EU pctl 56
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,545M
2023 · EU pctl 54
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€27,200
2023 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
32,500 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 47
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€36,500
2023 · EU pctl 54
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€29,132M
2023 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,692M
2023 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€55,013M
2023 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,949M
2023 · EU pctl 60
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,665M
2023 · EU pctl 70
Labour market
Employment, total persons
129,650
2023 · EU pctl 55
Self-employed persons
10,850
2023 · EU pctl 38
Employment in manufacturing (C)
23,340
2023 · EU pctl 62
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
78.9%
2025 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
7.8%
2019 · EU pctl 26 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
8,238
2023 · EU pctl 34
Enterprise births
670
2023 · EU pctl 34
Enterprise deaths
744
2023 · EU pctl 41
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.6%
2023 · EU pctl 24
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
39
2012 · EU pctl 71
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
141 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 63
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
3.2%
2023 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.5%
2025 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
35.5%
2025 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
39.9%
2025 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
10.7%
2025 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
24.9%
2025 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
10.1%
2025 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
478,729
2024 · EU pctl 31
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.
1,243
CURRENT · EU pctl 62
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
465
CURRENT · EU pctl 56
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
44
CURRENT · EU pctl 39
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)
166,923
2025 · EU pctl 52
Population aged 65+
65,097
2025 · EU pctl 56
Population aged under 15
35,486
2025 · EU pctl 51
Median age of population
47.6 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 64
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
39.0%
2025 · EU pctl 63
Crude rate of total population change
-3.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 24
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 40
Crude birth rate
8.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 59
Crude death rate
14.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 87
Live births
2,161
2024 · EU pctl 56
Deaths
3,928
2024 · EU pctl 63
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
60.3%
2025 · EU pctl 58
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.42
2024 · EU pctl 54
Population density (persons per km²)
223 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 67
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
21.9%
2025 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.6 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,044 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
246 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 76 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 55
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
50.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 83
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
336 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 72
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,130 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 69
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
42 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
183 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 45
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
5 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 31
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
57 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 48
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 17
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 55
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
26
2024 · EU pctl 97
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