NUTS-3 DEB3G · Germany
Kusel
Export region data (CSV)Kusel generates €1.6bn of GDP across 69.3k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 47.9/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +4.4%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 3.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (95.5th EU percentile) and weakest for economy (41.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
47.9
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth37.8
Livability70.6
Market access79
Economic scale4
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
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability94
Labour stability80
Diversification40
Demographic stability30
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)
75
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density89
Airport access57
Market access79
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)
95
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.5—
PM108.9 µg/m³
NO24.4 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)
70.6
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy41.5
Jobs67
Education75.5
Health45
Safety80.7
Connectivity89
Environment95.5
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
37.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.1%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.3 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.3%
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: Finance · real estate · prof. · 29.9%Diversified · HHI 2310
Agriculture 2.5%Industry 19.7%Construction 5.8%Trade · transport · ICT 14%Finance · real estate · prof. 29.9%Public · health · education 28.2%
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)
€1,451M
2023 · EU pctl 5
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€36M
2023 · EU pctl 15
GVA — industry (B–E)
€286M
2023 · EU pctl 8
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€194M
2023 · EU pctl 8
GVA — construction (F)
€84M
2023 · EU pctl 8
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€203M
2023 · EU pctl 3
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)
20,200 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 9
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€22,700
2023 · EU pctl 24
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)
€433M
2023 · EU pctl 12
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€409M
2023 · EU pctl 8
Labour market
Employment, total persons
19,630
2023 · EU pctl 2
Self-employed persons
2,290
2023 · EU pctl 2
Employment in manufacturing (C)
2,730
2023 · EU pctl 5
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)
1,853
2023 · EU pctl 2
Enterprise births
164
2023 · EU pctl 4
Enterprise deaths
183
2023 · EU pctl 4
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.6%
2023 · EU pctl 25
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
4
2012 · EU pctl 24
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
60 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 41
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)
114,616
2024 · EU pctl 5
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.
642
CURRENT · EU pctl 40
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
926
CURRENT · EU pctl 89
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
48
CURRENT · EU pctl 43
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
4
CURRENT · EU pctl 90
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
41,803
2025 · EU pctl 6
Population aged 65+
18,224
2025 · EU pctl 8
Population aged under 15
9,307
2025 · EU pctl 7
Median age of population
50.0 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 84
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
43.6%
2025 · EU pctl 82
Crude rate of total population change
-7.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 10
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-0.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 10
Crude birth rate
8.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Crude death rate
14.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 88
Live births
586
2024 · EU pctl 10
Deaths
1,036
2024 · EU pctl 10
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
65.9%
2025 · EU pctl 83
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.71
2024 · EU pctl 95
Population density (persons per km²)
121 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 48
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
8.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 20
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
215 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 51
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
779 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 49
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
25 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
264 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 57
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
8 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 51
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
60 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 52
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.
9
2024 · EU pctl 3
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
4
2024 · EU pctl 6
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
61
2024 · EU pctl 81
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