NUTS-3 DEE08 · Germany
Burgenlandkreis
Export region data (CSV)Burgenlandkreis generates €6.0bn of GDP across 173.7k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 44.2/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +5.4%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate down 0.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for digital connectivity (84th EU percentile) and weakest for health (18th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
44.2
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth34.2
Livability48.4
Market access56
Economic scale38
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)
36.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability42
Labour stability18
Diversification68
Demographic stability18
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)
68
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density84
Airport access64
Market access56
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)
14
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary9
Lifelong learning18
Knowledge workers9
Scientists & engineers20
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)
59
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.6 µg/m³
PM1013.6 µg/m³
NO29.7 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)
48.4
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy45
Jobs46.5
Education31.5
Health18
Safety53.3
Connectivity84
Environment60.3
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
34.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
-0.2 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: Industry · 27.5%Diversified · HHI 2145
Agriculture 2.9%Industry 27.5%Construction 7.3%Trade · transport · ICT 21.6%Finance · real estate · prof. 16.3%Public · health · education 24.4%
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)
€5,466M
2023 · EU pctl 38
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€158M
2023 · EU pctl 52
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,503M
2023 · EU pctl 47
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,016M
2023 · EU pctl 42
GVA — construction (F)
€401M
2023 · EU pctl 44
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,180M
2023 · EU pctl 42
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€24,800
2023 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
30,400 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 39
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€34,200
2023 · EU pctl 48
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€15,488M
2023 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,294M
2023 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€40,875M
2023 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€893M
2023 · EU pctl 30
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,332M
2023 · EU pctl 44
Labour market
Employment, total persons
72,150
2023 · EU pctl 30
Self-employed persons
6,000
2023 · EU pctl 18
Employment in manufacturing (C)
11,600
2023 · EU pctl 34
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
78.8%
2025 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
6.7%
2019 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
5,166
2023 · EU pctl 20
Enterprise births
308
2023 · EU pctl 13
Enterprise deaths
402
2023 · EU pctl 21
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.6%
2023 · EU pctl 5
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
2
2012 · EU pctl 13
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
8 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 17
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.4%
2023 · EU pctl 46 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.4%
2025 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
25.4%
2025 · EU pctl 17 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
28.9%
2025 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
7.4%
2025 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
16.9%
2025 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
6.5%
2025 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
509,455
2024 · EU pctl 32
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
573 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 38 · 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.
1,399
CURRENT · EU pctl 67
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
806
CURRENT · EU pctl 84
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
43
CURRENT · EU pctl 36
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)
100,280
2025 · EU pctl 32
Population aged 65+
52,223
2025 · EU pctl 44
Population aged under 15
21,181
2025 · EU pctl 30
Median age of population
52.9 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 96
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
52.1%
2025 · EU pctl 96
Crude rate of total population change
-8.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 6
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
1.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 24
Crude birth rate
6.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 15
Crude death rate
16.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Live births
1,040
2024 · EU pctl 26
Deaths
2,893
2024 · EU pctl 48
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
73.2%
2025 · EU pctl 94
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.50
2024 · EU pctl 71
Population density (persons per km²)
124 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 49
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
24.1%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
79.5 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,223 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
276 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
37.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
381 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,229 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
52 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
202 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 49
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
10 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 59
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
62 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 55
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 26
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 37
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
10
2024 · EU pctl 31
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
50
2024 · EU pctl 30
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