NUTS-3 DEB3K · Germany
Südwestpfalz
Export region data (CSV)Südwestpfalz generates €1.9bn of GDP across 90k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 45.1/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +3.5%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 3.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (96.7th EU percentile) and weakest for economy (40th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
45.1
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth27.2
Livability68
Market access79
Economic scale6
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)
49.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability35
Labour stability80
Diversification75
Demographic stability8
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)
72.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density86
Airport access52
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)
96.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.55 µg/m³
PM109 µg/m³
NO23 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)
68
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy40
Jobs67
Education75.5
Health45
Safety66
Connectivity86
Environment96.7
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
27.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.7 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.7 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-1.1%
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%Diversified · HHI 2108
Agriculture 2.7%Industry 21.5%Construction 9.1%Trade · transport · ICT 17.7%Finance · real estate · prof. 29%Public · health · education 20%
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)
€1,709M
2023 · EU pctl 6
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€46M
2023 · EU pctl 19
GVA — industry (B–E)
€367M
2023 · EU pctl 10
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€283M
2023 · EU pctl 12
GVA — construction (F)
€155M
2023 · EU pctl 13
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€302M
2023 · EU pctl 6
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)
18,500 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 6
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€20,800
2023 · EU pctl 21
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)
€496M
2023 · EU pctl 14
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€342M
2023 · EU pctl 6
Labour market
Employment, total persons
23,850
2023 · EU pctl 3
Self-employed persons
3,360
2023 · EU pctl 5
Employment in manufacturing (C)
4,330
2023 · EU pctl 9
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)
3,062
2023 · EU pctl 7
Enterprise births
220
2023 · EU pctl 8
Enterprise deaths
259
2023 · EU pctl 10
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.8%
2023 · EU pctl 33
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
19
2012 · EU pctl 52
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
190 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 73
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)
384,647
2024 · EU pctl 26
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.
741
CURRENT · EU pctl 44
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
824
CURRENT · EU pctl 86
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
52
CURRENT · EU pctl 48
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)
53,637
2025 · EU pctl 10
Population aged 65+
24,871
2025 · EU pctl 14
Population aged under 15
11,466
2025 · EU pctl 10
Median age of population
51.9 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 94
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
46.4%
2025 · EU pctl 87
Crude rate of total population change
-2.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 28
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 57
Crude birth rate
7.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 45
Crude death rate
15.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 90
Live births
688
2024 · EU pctl 14
Deaths
1,373
2024 · EU pctl 17
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
67.7%
2025 · EU pctl 87
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.53
2024 · EU pctl 77
Population density (persons per km²)
94 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 38
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 72
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
11.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 28
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
101 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 20
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
342 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 21
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
25 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
312 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 62
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
11 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 63
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
58 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 51
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.
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.
3
2024 · EU pctl 2
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
66
2024 · EU pctl 91
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