NUTS-3 DED42 · Germany
Erzgebirgskreis
Export region data (CSV)Erzgebirgskreis generates €9.6bn of GDP across 318.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 45.4/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and economic scale. Its economy has grown +3.3%/yr over five years, with the employment rate down 1.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for digital connectivity (84th EU percentile) and weakest for health (26th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
45.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth14.8
Livability58.8
Market access51
Economic scale57
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)
41.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability91
Labour stability15
Diversification52
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)
65.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density84
Airport access62
Market access51
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)
22
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary15
Lifelong learning21
Knowledge workers21
Scientists & engineers31
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)
77.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.56.2 µg/m³
PM109.5 µg/m³
NO212.4 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)
58.8
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy41.5
Jobs60
Education47
Health26
Safety75
Connectivity84
Environment78.3
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
14.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.3%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.0 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-1.0%
CAGR
Employment rate
-1.1 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.7 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 · 29.1%Diversified · HHI 2238
Agriculture 2.1%Industry 28.3%Construction 8.7%Trade · transport · ICT 14.2%Finance · real estate · prof. 17.7%Public · health · education 29.1%
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 · 67 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€8,724M
2023 · EU pctl 58
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€187M
2023 · EU pctl 58
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,466M
2023 · EU pctl 65
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,226M
2023 · EU pctl 71
GVA — construction (F)
€755M
2023 · EU pctl 72
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,236M
2023 · EU pctl 43
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€25,500
2023 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
26,300 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 26
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€29,600
2023 · EU pctl 37
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€10,850M
2023 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,837M
2023 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€27,479M
2023 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,543M
2023 · EU pctl 51
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,537M
2023 · EU pctl 69
Labour market
Employment, total persons
146,000
2023 · EU pctl 61
Self-employed persons
15,030
2023 · EU pctl 49
Employment in manufacturing (C)
39,490
2023 · EU pctl 80
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.5%
2025 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
12,242
2023 · EU pctl 47
Enterprise births
555
2023 · EU pctl 28
Enterprise deaths
812
2023 · EU pctl 44
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.2%
2023 · EU pctl 1
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
20
2012 · EU pctl 56
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
56 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 40
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.1%
2023 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.7%
2025 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
29.3%
2025 · EU pctl 26 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
31.1%
2025 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
8.0%
2025 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
18.8%
2025 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.3%
2025 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,465,363
2024 · EU pctl 61
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
602 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 53 · 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.
2,549
CURRENT · EU pctl 86
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
801
CURRENT · EU pctl 84
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.
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
176,994
2025 · EU pctl 56
Population aged 65+
101,700
2025 · EU pctl 75
Population aged under 15
39,700
2025 · EU pctl 55
Median age of population
53.2 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 97
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
57.5%
2025 · EU pctl 99
Crude rate of total population change
-11.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 2
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-1.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 9
Crude birth rate
5.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 6
Crude death rate
16.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 94
Live births
1,719
2024 · EU pctl 47
Deaths
5,186
2024 · EU pctl 75
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
79.9%
2025 · EU pctl 99
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.48
2024 · EU pctl 67
Population density (persons per km²)
176 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 61
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
21.6%
2025 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.7 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,211 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
239 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 27
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
16.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 41
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
164 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 39
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
506 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 32
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
29 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
618 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 87
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 15
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
97 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 86
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 51
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
10
2024 · EU pctl 4
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12
2024 · EU pctl 50
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
65
2024 · EU pctl 88
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