NUTS-3 DEA14 · Germany
Krefeld, Kreisfreie Stadt
Export region data (CSV)Krefeld, Kreisfreie Stadt generates €11bn of GDP across 231.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 60.6/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by market access and economic scale. Its economy has grown +2.6%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 1.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for economy (74th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (27th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
60.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth36.6
Livability42.8
Market access99
Economic scale64
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)
55.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability69
Labour stability57
Diversification32
Demographic stability65
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)
79
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density45
Airport access93
Market access99
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)
43.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary35
Lifelong learning42
Knowledge workers45
Scientists & engineers53
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)
26.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.510.6 µg/m³
PM1015.3 µg/m³
NO219.2 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)
42.8
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy74
Jobs38.5
Education44.5
Health29
Safety41.7
Connectivity45
Environment27
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
36.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+2.6%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.8 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-1.6 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.3%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.8 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.3 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 · 26.3%Diversified · HHI 2369
Agriculture 0.2%Industry 26.3%Construction 2.9%Trade · transport · ICT 26.1%Finance · real estate · prof. 22.1%Public · health · education 22.3%
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)
€10,118M
2023 · EU pctl 64
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€23M
2023 · EU pctl 12
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,664M
2023 · EU pctl 67
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,227M
2023 · EU pctl 71
GVA — construction (F)
€298M
2023 · EU pctl 33
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,640M
2023 · EU pctl 72
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€27,100
2023 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
42,800 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 79
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€48,100
2023 · EU pctl 81
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€40,936M
2023 · EU pctl 87 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€5,526M
2023 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€145,544M
2023 · EU pctl 94 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,237M
2023 · EU pctl 65
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,255M
2023 · EU pctl 66
Labour market
Employment, total persons
125,920
2023 · EU pctl 53
Self-employed persons
9,420
2023 · EU pctl 33
Employment in manufacturing (C)
21,580
2023 · EU pctl 59
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
76.8%
2025 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
8.1%
2025 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
8,846
2023 · EU pctl 35
Enterprise births
825
2023 · EU pctl 39
Enterprise deaths
848
2023 · EU pctl 45
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.7%
2023 · EU pctl 27
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
55
2012 · EU pctl 78
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
235 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 80
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.6%
2023 · EU pctl 53 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.6%
2025 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
31.8%
2025 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
35.9%
2025 · EU pctl 35 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
9.6%
2025 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
22.3%
2025 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
8.7%
2025 · EU pctl 53 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
266,461
2024 · EU pctl 16
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
567 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 35 · 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.
832
CURRENT · EU pctl 48
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
360
CURRENT · EU pctl 45
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
14
CURRENT · EU pctl 7
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
6
CURRENT · EU pctl 99
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
147,816
2025 · EU pctl 48
Population aged 65+
51,534
2025 · EU pctl 43
Population aged under 15
32,056
2025 · EU pctl 48
Median age of population
45.6 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 44
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
34.9%
2025 · EU pctl 38
Crude rate of total population change
4.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
8.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Crude birth rate
8.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Crude death rate
12.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Live births
1,981
2024 · EU pctl 53
Deaths
2,987
2024 · EU pctl 50
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
56.6%
2025 · EU pctl 31
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.45
2024 · EU pctl 61
Population density (persons per km²)
1,710 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 94
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
23.6%
2025 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.4 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 22 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,075 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
254 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
85.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 92
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
525 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 91
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,116 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 93
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
22 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
37 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 11
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
9 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 53
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
34 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 24
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 33
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 57
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 85
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
52
2024 · EU pctl 41
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