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Stendal

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Stendal generates €4.0bn of GDP across 106.5k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 42.5/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +6.1%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate down 0.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for digital connectivity (85th EU percentile) and weakest for health (18th).

Geometry: GISCO NUTS 2024, EPSG:4326, generalised at 1:3M.
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
42.5
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth39
Livability51.8
Market access56
Economic scale23
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)
38.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability60
Labour stability17
Diversification65
Demographic stability12
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)
50
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density85
Airport access9
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)
75.5
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.5
PM1013.4 µg/m³
NO26.4 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)
51.8
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy50
Jobs46.5
Education31.5
Health18
Safety54.3
Connectivity85
Environment77
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
39
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+6.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.8%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.3 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.8%
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 · 29.4%Diversified · HHI 2161
Agriculture 5.5%Industry 29.4%Construction 9.4%Trade · transport · ICT 13.2%Finance · real estate · prof. 14.3%Public · health · education 28.4%
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)
€3,619M
2023 · EU pctl 23
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€198M
2023 · EU pctl 60
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,062M
2023 · EU pctl 34
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€683M
2023 · EU pctl 29
GVA — construction (F)
€340M
2023 · EU pctl 38
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€476M
2023 · EU pctl 14
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)
32,900 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 49
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€37,000
2023 · EU pctl 56
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)
€516M
2023 · EU pctl 15
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,026M
2023 · EU pctl 34
Labour market
Employment, total persons
45,140
2023 · EU pctl 13
Self-employed persons
4,110
2023 · EU pctl 8
Employment in manufacturing (C)
5,890
2023 · EU pctl 14
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)
3,338
2023 · EU pctl 8
Enterprise births
166
2023 · EU pctl 4
Enterprise deaths
222
2023 · EU pctl 7
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.4%
2023 · EU pctl 4
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
3
2012 · EU pctl 19
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
25 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 30
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)
332,282
2024 · EU pctl 21
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.
872
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
819
CURRENT · EU pctl 85
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
118
CURRENT · EU pctl 91
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
CURRENT · EU pctl 0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
62,692
2025 · EU pctl 15
Population aged 65+
30,527
2025 · EU pctl 23
Population aged under 15
13,319
2025 · EU pctl 14
Median age of population
52.8 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 96
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
48.7%
2025 · EU pctl 92
Crude rate of total population change
-2.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 27
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
8.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 80
Crude birth rate
6.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 15
Crude death rate
16.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 96
Live births
643
2024 · EU pctl 11
Deaths
1,806
2024 · EU pctl 28
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
69.9%
2025 · EU pctl 90
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.50
2024 · EU pctl 71
Population density (persons per km²)
45 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 14
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
49.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
302 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,168 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
52 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
34 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 10
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
9 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 53
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
53 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 44
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 11
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
13
2024 · EU pctl 34
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 12
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
57
2024 · EU pctl 66
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