NUTS-3 DED51 · Germany
Leipzig, Kreisfreie Stadt
Export region data (CSV)Leipzig, Kreisfreie Stadt generates €29bn of GDP across 611.9k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 62.6/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and market access. Its economy has grown +5.1%/yr over five years, with the employment rate up 1.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for education (70th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (38.7th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
62.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth54.4
Livability49.1
Market access58
Economic scale89
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)
53
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability90
Labour stability19
Diversification23
Demographic stability80
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)
63.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density39
Airport access93
Market access58
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)
69
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary75
Lifelong learning64
Knowledge workers74
Scientists & engineers63
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)
37.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.59 µg/m³
PM1015 µg/m³
NO216.4 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)
49.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy65.5
Jobs52
Education70
Health39.5
Safety39.3
Connectivity39
Environment38.7
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
54.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.8%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.3 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.1 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.1 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. · 29.1%Diversified · HHI 2452
Agriculture 0.1%Industry 13.9%Construction 4.2%Trade · transport · ICT 24.7%Finance · real estate · prof. 29.1%Public · health · education 28%
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)
€26,683M
2023 · EU pctl 89
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€20M
2023 · EU pctl 11
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,717M
2023 · EU pctl 80
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,014M
2023 · EU pctl 80
GVA — construction (F)
€1,123M
2023 · EU pctl 83
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€6,593M
2023 · EU pctl 90
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€24,700
2023 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
43,000 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 80
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€48,200
2023 · EU pctl 81
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€9,129M
2023 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,577M
2023 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€24,874M
2023 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€7,752M
2023 · EU pctl 91
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€7,479M
2023 · EU pctl 93
Labour market
Employment, total persons
365,780
2023 · EU pctl 90
Self-employed persons
26,510
2023 · EU pctl 66
Employment in manufacturing (C)
28,180
2023 · EU pctl 69
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.7%
2025 · EU pctl 72 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
22,140
2023 · EU pctl 63
Enterprise births
2,094
2023 · EU pctl 64
Enterprise deaths
2,135
2023 · EU pctl 71
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.1%
2023 · EU pctl 43
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
48
2012 · EU pctl 75
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
91 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 50
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.1%
2023 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.2%
2025 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
39.7%
2025 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
47.1%
2025 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
12.6%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
27.1%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
9.4%
2025 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,818,853
2024 · EU pctl 82
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
478 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 17 · 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.
1,743
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
285
CURRENT · EU pctl 39
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
14
CURRENT · EU pctl 7
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)
409,586
2025 · EU pctl 86
Population aged 65+
119,846
2025 · EU pctl 80
Population aged under 15
82,418
2025 · EU pctl 81
Median age of population
39.8 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 4
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
29.3%
2025 · EU pctl 11
Crude rate of total population change
6.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
9.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Crude birth rate
7.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 53
Crude death rate
11.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 41
Live births
4,811
2024 · EU pctl 84
Deaths
6,751
2024 · EU pctl 86
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
49.4%
2025 · EU pctl 5
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.01
2024 · EU pctl 3
Population density (persons per km²)
2,082 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 96
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
20.6%
2025 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.4 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,076 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
239 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 59
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
92.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 93
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
889 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,336 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
35 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
116 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 33
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
12 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 68
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
57 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 48
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 3
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 53
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
16
2024 · EU pctl 73
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
51
2024 · EU pctl 31
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