NUTS-3 DEA1F · Germany
Wesel
Export region data (CSV)Wesel generates €16bn of GDP across 457.9k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 64.6/100 puts it in the upper quartile 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 1.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (61.3th EU percentile) and weakest for health (29th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
64.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth36.2
Livability48
Market access98
Economic scale76
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)
62.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability91
Labour stability57
Diversification62
Demographic stability40
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)
76.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density57
Airport access74
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)
60.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.7 µg/m³
PM1013.2 µg/m³
NO29.7 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
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy56
Jobs38.5
Education44.5
Health29
Safety50
Connectivity57
Environment61.3
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
36.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.1%
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 · 25.2%Diversified · HHI 2182
Agriculture 1.3%Industry 23%Construction 6.3%Trade · transport · ICT 21.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 22.9%Public · health · education 25.2%
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)
€14,655M
2023 · EU pctl 76
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€192M
2023 · EU pctl 58
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,371M
2023 · EU pctl 77
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,613M
2023 · EU pctl 75
GVA — construction (F)
€927M
2023 · EU pctl 78
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,117M
2023 · EU pctl 77
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)
31,300 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 43
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€35,100
2023 · EU pctl 50
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)
€3,359M
2023 · EU pctl 77
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,689M
2023 · EU pctl 80
Labour market
Employment, total persons
204,970
2023 · EU pctl 74
Self-employed persons
17,930
2023 · EU pctl 54
Employment in manufacturing (C)
26,960
2023 · EU pctl 68
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)
15,950
2023 · EU pctl 53
Enterprise births
1,340
2023 · EU pctl 52
Enterprise deaths
1,383
2023 · EU pctl 59
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.4%
2023 · EU pctl 50
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
95
2012 · EU pctl 90
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
203 /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)
768,310
2024 · EU pctl 45
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.
2,151
CURRENT · EU pctl 82
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
470
CURRENT · EU pctl 57
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
31
CURRENT · EU pctl 25
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
7
CURRENT · EU pctl 100
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
280,655
2025 · EU pctl 74
Population aged 65+
114,563
2025 · EU pctl 78
Population aged under 15
62,700
2025 · EU pctl 73
Median age of population
48.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 74
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
40.8%
2025 · EU pctl 72
Crude rate of total population change
0.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 51
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 68
Crude birth rate
7.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 48
Crude death rate
13.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Live births
3,537
2024 · EU pctl 75
Deaths
6,235
2024 · EU pctl 83
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
63.2%
2025 · EU pctl 74
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.42
2024 · EU pctl 54
Population density (persons per km²)
456 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 82
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
1.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 72
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
40.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 75
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
430 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 84
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,246 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 74
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
22 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
16 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 7
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 39
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
31 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 22
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 38
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 32
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
10
2024 · EU pctl 31
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
51
2024 · EU pctl 32
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