NUTS-3 DE948 · Germany
Cloppenburg
Export region data (CSV)Cloppenburg generates €8.3bn of GDP across 177k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 62.4/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic growth and market access. Its economy has grown +7.1%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 4.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for jobs (87.5th EU percentile) and weakest for education (23th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
62.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth72.6
Livability56.8
Market access68
Economic scale52
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)
70
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability50
Labour stability69
Diversification77
Demographic stability84
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)
62.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density73
Airport access47
Market access68
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)
34
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary41
Lifelong learning27
Knowledge workers33
Scientists & engineers35
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)
58.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.59 µg/m³
PM1013.4 µg/m³
NO29.3 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)
56.8
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy72
Jobs87.5
Education23
Health35.5
Safety46.7
Connectivity73
Environment60
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
72.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+7.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+5.4%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.7 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+2.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.7%
CAGR
Employment rate
+4.1 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.4 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 · 33.5%Diversified · HHI 2098
Agriculture 7.7%Industry 33.5%Construction 8.7%Trade · transport · ICT 16%Finance · real estate · prof. 18.7%Public · health · education 15.3%
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)
€7,579M
2023 · EU pctl 53
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€585M
2023 · EU pctl 90
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,536M
2023 · EU pctl 66
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,100M
2023 · EU pctl 69
GVA — construction (F)
€660M
2023 · EU pctl 65
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,216M
2023 · EU pctl 43
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€27,000
2023 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
42,000 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 77
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€47,100
2023 · EU pctl 79
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€31,047M
2023 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,687M
2023 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€59,034M
2023 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,419M
2023 · EU pctl 47
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,163M
2023 · EU pctl 38
Labour market
Employment, total persons
100,300
2023 · EU pctl 45
Self-employed persons
8,830
2023 · EU pctl 31
Employment in manufacturing (C)
26,240
2023 · EU pctl 66
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
81.8%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
5.6%
2019 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
6,621
2023 · EU pctl 27
Enterprise births
512
2023 · EU pctl 26
Enterprise deaths
520
2023 · EU pctl 28
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.2%
2023 · EU pctl 44
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
10
2012 · EU pctl 39
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
61 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 42
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.8%
2023 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.2%
2025 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
30.8%
2025 · EU pctl 30 · 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)
8.4%
2025 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
20.9%
2025 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.5%
2025 · EU pctl 35 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
493,703
2024 · EU pctl 32
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
623 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 66 · 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.
1,162
CURRENT · EU pctl 60
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
656
CURRENT · EU pctl 73
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
57
CURRENT · EU pctl 53
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
115,105
2025 · EU pctl 37
Population aged 65+
32,350
2025 · EU pctl 26
Population aged under 15
29,570
2025 · EU pctl 44
Median age of population
41.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 10
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
28.1%
2025 · EU pctl 8
Crude rate of total population change
2.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 62
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 26
Crude birth rate
10.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Crude death rate
9.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 21
Live births
1,853
2024 · EU pctl 50
Deaths
1,746
2024 · EU pctl 27
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
53.8%
2025 · EU pctl 16
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.70
2024 · EU pctl 94
Population density (persons per km²)
125 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 49
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
26.3%
2025 · EU pctl 83 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.6 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,034 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
236 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 43
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
19.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 46
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
155 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 36
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
739 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 46
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
54 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
22 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)
38 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 29
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 29
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
13
2024 · EU pctl 34
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
9
2024 · EU pctl 28
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
56
2024 · EU pctl 61
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