NUTS-3 DEA19 · Germany
Solingen, Kreisfreie Stadt
Export region data (CSV)Solingen, Kreisfreie Stadt generates €5.6bn of GDP across 165.6k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 54.3/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +2.2%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 1.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (65.5th EU percentile) and weakest for health (29th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
54.3
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth36.6
Livability48.7
Market access98
Economic scale34
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)
67.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability92
Labour stability57
Diversification34
Demographic stability86
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)
76.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density51
Airport access81
Market access98
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)
65
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.5—
PM1011.5 µg/m³
NO213 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)
48.7
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy53
Jobs38.5
Education44.5
Health29
Safety59.7
Connectivity51
Environment65.5
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
+2.2%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.6%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-2.0 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.8%
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: Public · health · education · 26.4%Diversified · HHI 2352
Industry 23.2%Construction 3.7%Trade · transport · ICT 20.9%Finance · real estate · prof. 25.9%Public · health · education 26.4%
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)
€5,074M
2023 · EU pctl 35
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€3M
2023 · EU pctl 1
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,175M
2023 · EU pctl 37
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€996M
2023 · EU pctl 41
GVA — construction (F)
€185M
2023 · EU pctl 18
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,058M
2023 · EU pctl 38
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)
29,900 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 37
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€33,500
2023 · EU pctl 46
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)
€1,315M
2023 · EU pctl 45
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,337M
2023 · EU pctl 44
Labour market
Employment, total persons
72,110
2023 · EU pctl 30
Self-employed persons
6,690
2023 · EU pctl 22
Employment in manufacturing (C)
15,150
2023 · EU pctl 44
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)
6,539
2023 · EU pctl 26
Enterprise births
496
2023 · EU pctl 24
Enterprise deaths
549
2023 · EU pctl 29
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.4%
2023 · EU pctl 17
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
33
2012 · EU pctl 67
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
204 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 75
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)
96,374
2024 · EU pctl 4
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.
693
CURRENT · EU pctl 43
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
418
CURRENT · EU pctl 51
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
24
CURRENT · EU pctl 19
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
5
CURRENT · EU pctl 96
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
105,406
2025 · EU pctl 34
Population aged 65+
36,963
2025 · EU pctl 30
Population aged under 15
23,257
2025 · EU pctl 34
Median age of population
46.0 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 49
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.1%
2025 · EU pctl 40
Crude rate of total population change
-2.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 26
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 29
Crude birth rate
7.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 51
Crude death rate
12.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Live births
1,298
2024 · EU pctl 37
Deaths
2,139
2024 · EU pctl 35
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
57.1%
2025 · EU pctl 35
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.33
2024 · EU pctl 38
Population density (persons per km²)
1,843 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 95
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
0.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 45
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
69.2 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 89
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
288 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 65
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,220 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 72
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
22 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
188 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 46
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 36
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
43 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 34
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 71
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12
2024 · EU pctl 15
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
13
2024 · EU pctl 54
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
55
2024 · EU pctl 57
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