NUTS-3 DEB39 · Germany
Worms, Kreisfreie Stadt
Export region data (CSV)Worms, Kreisfreie Stadt generates €3.8bn of GDP across 86.8k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 52.5/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +3.2%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 3.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for education (75.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (28.3th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
52.5
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth40.2
Livability58.9
Market access89
Economic scale22
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)
61.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability47
Labour stability80
Diversification34
Demographic stability85
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)
68.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density55
Airport access61
Market access89
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)
28.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.510.9 µg/m³
PM1015.4 µg/m³
NO217.3 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)
58.9
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy72.5
Jobs67
Education75.5
Health45
Safety69
Connectivity55
Environment28.3
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
40.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.2%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.7%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-1.0 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.8%
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 · 32.3%Diversified · HHI 2353
Agriculture 1.6%Industry 32.3%Construction 4%Trade · transport · ICT 20.6%Finance · real estate · prof. 19.4%Public · health · education 22.1%
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)
€3,467M
2023 · EU pctl 22
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€54M
2023 · EU pctl 22
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,121M
2023 · EU pctl 36
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€956M
2023 · EU pctl 40
GVA — construction (F)
€139M
2023 · EU pctl 12
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€715M
2023 · EU pctl 25
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)
39,400 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 71
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€44,200
2023 · EU pctl 74
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)
€673M
2023 · EU pctl 22
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€765M
2023 · EU pctl 20
Labour market
Employment, total persons
45,340
2023 · EU pctl 14
Self-employed persons
3,480
2023 · EU pctl 6
Employment in manufacturing (C)
6,840
2023 · EU pctl 17
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)
2,926
2023 · EU pctl 6
Enterprise births
263
2023 · EU pctl 10
Enterprise deaths
264
2023 · EU pctl 11
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.4%
2023 · EU pctl 51
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
17
2012 · EU pctl 49
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
203 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 74
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)
153,256
2024 · EU pctl 8
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.
395
CURRENT · EU pctl 32
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
455
CURRENT · EU pctl 55
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
44
CURRENT · EU pctl 38
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)
55,821
2025 · EU pctl 11
Population aged 65+
18,139
2025 · EU pctl 8
Population aged under 15
12,793
2025 · EU pctl 13
Median age of population
43.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 23
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.5%
2025 · EU pctl 24
Crude rate of total population change
4.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 71
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Crude birth rate
8.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Crude death rate
11.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 43
Live births
746
2024 · EU pctl 15
Deaths
968
2024 · EU pctl 9
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
55.4%
2025 · EU pctl 24
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.42
2024 · EU pctl 54
Population density (persons per km²)
825 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 88
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
0.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
48.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
304 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 68
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,583 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 84
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
25 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
127 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 35
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
16 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 72
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
51 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 41
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 7
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 58
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
17
2024 · EU pctl 77
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
45
2024 · EU pctl 8
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