NUTS-3 DEF0E · Germany
Steinburg
Export region data (CSV)Steinburg generates €4.8bn of GDP across 132.7k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 44.5/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +3.5%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (76th EU percentile) and weakest for health (42.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
44.5
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth27.6
Livability58.4
Market access63
Economic scale29
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)
53.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability40
Labour stability54
Diversification60
Demographic stability60
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)
66.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density75
Airport access61
Market access63
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)
35.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary20
Lifelong learning33
Knowledge workers39
Scientists & engineers50
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
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.57.3 µg/m³
PM1012.3 µg/m³
NO2—
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)
58.4
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy63.5
Jobs66.5
Education42.5
Health42.5
Safety42.7
Connectivity75
Environment76
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
27.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.6 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.8 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.3%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.0 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.2 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 · 26.5%Diversified · HHI 2194
Agriculture 3.3%Industry 24%Construction 6.1%Trade · transport · ICT 14.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 25.7%Public · health · education 26.5%
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)
€4,372M
2023 · EU pctl 29
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€144M
2023 · EU pctl 49
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,050M
2023 · EU pctl 34
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€647M
2023 · EU pctl 28
GVA — construction (F)
€268M
2023 · EU pctl 29
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€627M
2023 · EU pctl 21
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€28,800
2023 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
32,300 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 47
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€36,200
2023 · EU pctl 53
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€27,063M
2023 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,460M
2023 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€61,661M
2023 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,123M
2023 · EU pctl 39
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,159M
2023 · EU pctl 38
Labour market
Employment, total persons
59,110
2023 · EU pctl 23
Self-employed persons
6,560
2023 · EU pctl 21
Employment in manufacturing (C)
8,070
2023 · EU pctl 22
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.3%
2025 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
6.0%
2019 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
4,565
2023 · EU pctl 16
Enterprise births
339
2023 · EU pctl 15
Enterprise deaths
442
2023 · EU pctl 23
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.7%
2023 · EU pctl 28
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
17
2012 · EU pctl 50
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
127 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 60
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.5%
2023 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.0%
2025 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
31.8%
2025 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
32.4%
2025 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
9.2%
2025 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
21.5%
2025 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
8.6%
2025 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
176,529
2024 · EU pctl 10
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
593 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 47 · 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.
889
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
670
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
45
CURRENT · EU pctl 39
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
CURRENT · EU pctl 15
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
83,090
2025 · EU pctl 24
Population aged 65+
31,796
2025 · EU pctl 25
Population aged under 15
17,845
2025 · EU pctl 23
Median age of population
48.8 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 75
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
38.3%
2025 · EU pctl 59
Crude rate of total population change
2.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 58
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
9.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 83
Crude birth rate
7.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 37
Crude death rate
14.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Live births
956
2024 · EU pctl 23
Deaths
1,867
2024 · EU pctl 29
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.7%
2025 · EU pctl 54
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.38
2024 · EU pctl 47
Population density (persons per km²)
131 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 50
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
20.9%
2025 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.8 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,015 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
251 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 84
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
40.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 76
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
243 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 56
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,216 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 72
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
29 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
7 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 4
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 22
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
47 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 37
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.
12
2024 · EU pctl 22
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
58
2024 · EU pctl 71
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