NUTS-3 DED53 · Germany
Nordsachsen
Export region data (CSV)Nordsachsen generates €7.5bn of GDP across 199.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 54.4/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and market access. Its economy has grown +5.4%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (86.7th EU percentile) and weakest for health (39.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
54.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth49.4
Livability64.3
Market access57
Economic scale47
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)
40.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability28
Labour stability19
Diversification60
Demographic stability54
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)
61.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density79
Airport access48
Market access57
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)
85.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.57 µg/m³
PM1010.7 µg/m³
NO25.9 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)
64.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy51
Jobs52
Education70
Health39.5
Safety71.7
Connectivity79
Environment86.7
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
49.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.9 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.2%
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: Trade · transport · ICT · 31.6%Diversified · HHI 2196
Agriculture 3.3%Industry 19.5%Construction 7.8%Trade · transport · ICT 31.6%Finance · real estate · prof. 15%Public · health · education 22.8%
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)
€6,834M
2023 · EU pctl 48
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€227M
2023 · EU pctl 64
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,331M
2023 · EU pctl 43
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€986M
2023 · EU pctl 41
GVA — construction (F)
€533M
2023 · EU pctl 57
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,161M
2023 · EU pctl 65
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)
33,200 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 51
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€37,300
2023 · EU pctl 57
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)
€1,023M
2023 · EU pctl 36
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,560M
2023 · EU pctl 51
Labour market
Employment, total persons
95,370
2023 · EU pctl 42
Self-employed persons
8,880
2023 · EU pctl 31
Employment in manufacturing (C)
14,460
2023 · EU pctl 42
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.7%
2025 · EU pctl 72 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
6,792
2023 · EU pctl 28
Enterprise births
350
2023 · EU pctl 16
Enterprise deaths
505
2023 · EU pctl 27
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.6%
2023 · EU pctl 5
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
6
2012 · EU pctl 30
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
31 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 31
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)
580,511
2024 · EU pctl 36
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.
1,446
CURRENT · EU pctl 68
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
725
CURRENT · EU pctl 79
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
56
CURRENT · EU pctl 52
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)
117,668
2025 · EU pctl 38
Population aged 65+
55,174
2025 · EU pctl 47
Population aged under 15
26,580
2025 · EU pctl 40
Median age of population
50.8 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 89
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
46.9%
2025 · EU pctl 89
Crude rate of total population change
-6.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 11
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
1.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 23
Crude birth rate
5.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 8
Crude death rate
14.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Live births
1,110
2024 · EU pctl 29
Deaths
2,796
2024 · EU pctl 47
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
69.5%
2025 · EU pctl 89
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.38
2024 · EU pctl 47
Population density (persons per km²)
100 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 41
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
0.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
32.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 66
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
374 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
907 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 57
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
35 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
185 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 45
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
10 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 61
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
55 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 47
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.
11
2024 · EU pctl 10
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
6
2024 · EU pctl 10
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
56
2024 · EU pctl 65
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