NUTS-3 DEA32 · Germany
Gelsenkirchen, Kreisfreie Stadt
Export region data (CSV)Gelsenkirchen, Kreisfreie Stadt generates €10bn of GDP across 267.9k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 61.3/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by market access and economic scale. Its economy has grown +4.1%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 2.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for jobs (68.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (19.3th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
61.3
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth42.8
Livability44.4
Market access97
Economic scale61
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)
53.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability44
Labour stability63
Diversification28
Demographic stability80
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)
70
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density45
Airport access68
Market access97
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)
33
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary32
Lifelong learning29
Knowledge workers31
Scientists & engineers40
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)
19.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.510.2 µg/m³
PM1018 µg/m³
NO223.2 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)
44.4
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy61
Jobs68.5
Education29.5
Health37.5
Safety50
Connectivity45
Environment19.3
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
42.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.6 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+2.1 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 · 29.7%Diversified · HHI 2403
Agriculture 0.1%Industry 27.5%Construction 4.9%Trade · transport · ICT 15.5%Finance · real estate · prof. 22.3%Public · health · education 29.7%
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)
€9,389M
2023 · EU pctl 61
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€6M
2023 · EU pctl 3
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,581M
2023 · EU pctl 67
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,886M
2023 · EU pctl 64
GVA — construction (F)
€457M
2023 · EU pctl 50
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,456M
2023 · EU pctl 51
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)
34,400 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 55
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€38,600
2023 · EU pctl 60
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€20,727M
2023 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,530M
2023 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€59,763M
2023 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,097M
2023 · EU pctl 62
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,792M
2023 · EU pctl 72
Labour market
Employment, total persons
117,850
2023 · EU pctl 50
Self-employed persons
7,940
2023 · EU pctl 27
Employment in manufacturing (C)
9,940
2023 · EU pctl 28
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
79.1%
2025 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
4.6%
2019 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
6,830
2023 · EU pctl 28
Enterprise births
674
2023 · EU pctl 34
Enterprise deaths
709
2023 · EU pctl 39
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.8%
2023 · EU pctl 32
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
9
2012 · EU pctl 38
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
35 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 33
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.2%
2023 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.3%
2025 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
30.1%
2025 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
35.3%
2025 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
8.7%
2025 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
20.6%
2025 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.7%
2025 · EU pctl 40 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
308,463
2024 · EU pctl 19
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
590 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 45 · 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.
983
CURRENT · EU pctl 53
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
367
CURRENT · EU pctl 45
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
38
CURRENT · EU pctl 32
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)
170,149
2025 · EU pctl 54
Population aged 65+
54,700
2025 · EU pctl 46
Population aged under 15
43,081
2025 · EU pctl 59
Median age of population
42.8 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 17
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.1%
2025 · EU pctl 22
Crude rate of total population change
2.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 60
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 53
Crude birth rate
10.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 96
Crude death rate
12.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 65
Live births
2,669
2024 · EU pctl 66
Deaths
3,379
2024 · EU pctl 56
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
57.5%
2025 · EU pctl 38
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.66
2024 · EU pctl 93
Population density (persons per km²)
2,549 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 97
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
24.5%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.8 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,053 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
246 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 30
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
88.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 92
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
528 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 91
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,076 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 92
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
35 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
68 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 20
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
8 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 52
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
40 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 31
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 41
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
18
2024 · EU pctl 73
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
23
2024 · EU pctl 94
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