NUTS-3 DEA53 · Germany
Hagen, Kreisfreie Stadt
Export region data (CSV)Hagen, Kreisfreie Stadt generates €7.5bn of GDP across 190.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 54.8/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and economic scale. Its economy has grown +1.5%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 2.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for digital connectivity (68th EU percentile) and weakest for health (26th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
54.8
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth30.6
Livability45.4
Market access95
Economic scale48
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)
44.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability53
Labour stability42
Diversification29
Demographic stability55
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)
82.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density68
Airport access85
Market access95
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)
28
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary20
Lifelong learning44
Knowledge workers19
Scientists & engineers29
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)
25.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.510 µg/m³
PM1014.8 µg/m³
NO226.9 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)
45.4
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy61
Jobs44
Education38.5
Health26
Safety54.3
Connectivity68
Environment26.3
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
30.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+1.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.1%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.6 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-2.7 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.2%
CAGR
Employment rate
+2.2 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: Public · health · education · 30.3%Diversified · HHI 2394
Agriculture 0.1%Industry 22.6%Construction 3.4%Trade · transport · ICT 21.9%Finance · real estate · prof. 21.7%Public · health · education 30.3%
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 · 67 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€6,860M
2023 · EU pctl 49
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€4M
2023 · EU pctl 3
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,552M
2023 · EU pctl 48
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,311M
2023 · EU pctl 51
GVA — construction (F)
€232M
2023 · EU pctl 24
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,504M
2023 · EU pctl 52
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€26,700
2023 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
35,200 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 58
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€39,500
2023 · EU pctl 63
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€29,556M
2023 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€4,134M
2023 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€86,336M
2023 · EU pctl 87 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,488M
2023 · EU pctl 50
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,081M
2023 · EU pctl 62
Labour market
Employment, total persons
93,780
2023 · EU pctl 41
Self-employed persons
6,590
2023 · EU pctl 22
Employment in manufacturing (C)
15,650
2023 · EU pctl 46
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
77.4%
2025 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
9.5%
2025 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
5,746
2023 · EU pctl 23
Enterprise births
521
2023 · EU pctl 27
Enterprise deaths
510
2023 · EU pctl 27
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.2%
2023 · EU pctl 44
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
22
2012 · EU pctl 57
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
115 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 57
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.8%
2023 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.4%
2025 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
27.3%
2025 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
32.4%
2025 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
9.7%
2025 · EU pctl 44 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
18.7%
2025 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.2%
2025 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
201,981
2024 · EU pctl 12
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
603 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 55 · 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.
1,135
CURRENT · EU pctl 59
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
596
CURRENT · EU pctl 68
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
21
CURRENT · EU pctl 15
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)
120,460
2025 · EU pctl 40
Population aged 65+
41,025
2025 · EU pctl 34
Population aged under 15
28,899
2025 · EU pctl 43
Median age of population
44.1 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 28
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
34.1%
2025 · EU pctl 33
Crude rate of total population change
-1.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 35
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 35
Crude birth rate
9.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 89
Crude death rate
13.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 79
Live births
1,767
2024 · EU pctl 48
Deaths
2,608
2024 · EU pctl 44
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
58.0%
2025 · EU pctl 41
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.54
2024 · EU pctl 79
Population density (persons per km²)
1,198 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 91
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
24.6%
2025 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.1 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,106 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
256 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 40
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
92.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 93
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
472 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 87
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,982 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 91
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
23 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
140 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 38
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
7 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 45
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
38 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 29
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 59
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 50
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
27
2024 · EU pctl 98
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