NUTS-3 DEB34 · Germany
Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Kreisfreie Stadt
Export region data (CSV)Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Kreisfreie Stadt generates €14bn of GDP across 177.2k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 62.2/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by market access and economic scale. Its economy has grown +0.3%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 3.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for economy (85.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (21.3th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
62.2
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth32.6
Livability54
Market access90
Economic scale72
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)
43.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability15
Labour stability80
Diversification1
Demographic stability78
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)
57.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density41
Airport access42
Market access90
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)
57.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary52
Lifelong learning49
Knowledge workers61
Scientists & engineers68
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)
21.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.510.7 µg/m³
PM1017.7 µg/m³
NO219.9 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)
54
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy85.5
Jobs67
Education75.5
Health45
Safety43
Connectivity41
Environment21.3
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
32.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+0.3%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+1.2%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.9 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-3.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.1 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
0.0 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 · 54.5%Concentrated · HHI 3588
Agriculture 0.1%Industry 54.5%Construction 2.9%Trade · transport · ICT 12.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 15.4%Public · health · education 14.7%
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 · 68 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€12,849M
2023 · EU pctl 72
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€9M
2023 · EU pctl 6
GVA — industry (B–E)
€7,006M
2023 · EU pctl 92
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€6,641M
2023 · EU pctl 94
GVA — construction (F)
€379M
2023 · EU pctl 42
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,593M
2023 · EU pctl 54
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€27,700
2023 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
71,700 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 97
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€80,500
2023 · EU pctl 97
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€20,699M
2023 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€4,472M
2023 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€49,098M
2023 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,975M
2023 · EU pctl 61
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,886M
2023 · EU pctl 59
Labour market
Employment, total persons
125,950
2023 · EU pctl 53
Self-employed persons
5,900
2023 · EU pctl 17
Employment in manufacturing (C)
45,260
2023 · EU pctl 85
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
81.3%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
6.4%
2019 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
4,724
2023 · EU pctl 17
Enterprise births
515
2023 · EU pctl 26
Enterprise deaths
510
2023 · EU pctl 27
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.9%
2023 · EU pctl 64
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
65
2012 · EU pctl 82
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
390 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 93
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
5.3%
2023 · EU pctl 94 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.4%
2025 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
36.8%
2025 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
41.9%
2025 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
10.1%
2025 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
25.1%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
9.8%
2025 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
316,503
2024 · EU pctl 20
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
621 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 64 · 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.
567
CURRENT · EU pctl 38
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
320
CURRENT · EU pctl 41
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
61
CURRENT · EU pctl 58
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
115,946
2025 · EU pctl 38
Population aged 65+
33,627
2025 · EU pctl 27
Population aged under 15
27,649
2025 · EU pctl 41
Median age of population
41.6 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 10
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
29.0%
2025 · EU pctl 11
Crude rate of total population change
8.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 87
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
8.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Crude birth rate
10.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 96
Crude death rate
10.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 36
Live births
1,789
2024 · EU pctl 48
Deaths
1,903
2024 · EU pctl 30
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
52.8%
2025 · EU pctl 12
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.60
2024 · EU pctl 88
Population density (persons per km²)
2,354 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 97
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
23.2%
2025 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.2 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,015 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
231 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 53 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 74
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
69.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 89
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
351 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 74
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,813 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 88
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
25 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
95 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 26
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
22 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 79
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
49 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 39
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.
18
2024 · EU pctl 71
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
20
2024 · EU pctl 87
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
47
2024 · EU pctl 15
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