NUTS-3 DEG07 · Germany
Nordhausen
Export region data (CSV)Nordhausen generates €2.6bn of GDP across 80.8k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 37.6/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by livability and market access. Its economy has grown +3.5%/yr over five years, with the employment rate up 0.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for digital connectivity (79th EU percentile) and weakest for health (25.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
37.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth28
Livability55.5
Market access55
Economic scale12
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)
41.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability68
Labour stability32
Diversification49
Demographic stability16
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)
58.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density79
Airport access42
Market access55
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)
28.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary33
Lifelong learning23
Knowledge workers27
Scientists & engineers31
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)
57
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.3 µg/m³
PM1014.6 µg/m³
NO210 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)
55.5
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy43.5
Jobs67.5
Education52
Health25.5
Safety63
Connectivity79
Environment58
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
28
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.3 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.7 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+0.8 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.5 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 · 32.4%Diversified · HHI 2256
Agriculture 3.4%Industry 24.9%Construction 6.9%Trade · transport · ICT 15%Finance · real estate · prof. 17.4%Public · health · education 32.4%
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)
€2,409M
2023 · EU pctl 12
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€82M
2023 · EU pctl 31
GVA — industry (B–E)
€599M
2023 · EU pctl 18
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€463M
2023 · EU pctl 19
GVA — construction (F)
€166M
2023 · EU pctl 15
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€362M
2023 · EU pctl 8
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€25,200
2023 · EU pctl 53 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
28,800 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 34
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€32,300
2023 · EU pctl 43
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€14,609M
2023 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,167M
2023 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€42,299M
2023 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€418M
2023 · EU pctl 11
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€781M
2023 · EU pctl 21
Labour market
Employment, total persons
45,530
2023 · EU pctl 14
Self-employed persons
4,630
2023 · EU pctl 11
Employment in manufacturing (C)
12,000
2023 · EU pctl 35
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.5%
2025 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
7.7%
2019 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
2,373
2023 · EU pctl 4
Enterprise births
148
2023 · EU pctl 3
Enterprise deaths
164
2023 · EU pctl 4
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.4%
2023 · EU pctl 4
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
6
2012 · EU pctl 30
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
71 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 45
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.6%
2023 · EU pctl 76 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.7%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
30.4%
2025 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
35.6%
2025 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
8.1%
2025 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
19.9%
2025 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.3%
2025 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
173,069
2024 · EU pctl 10
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
568 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 36 · 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.
589
CURRENT · EU pctl 38
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
729
CURRENT · EU pctl 79
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
61
CURRENT · EU pctl 58
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)
47,326
2025 · EU pctl 8
Population aged 65+
23,402
2025 · EU pctl 13
Population aged under 15
10,034
2025 · EU pctl 8
Median age of population
51.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 92
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
49.4%
2025 · EU pctl 93
Crude rate of total population change
-9.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 5
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 26
Crude birth rate
5.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 5
Crude death rate
16.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Live births
432
2024 · EU pctl 6
Deaths
1,344
2024 · EU pctl 16
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
70.7%
2025 · EU pctl 92
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.25
2024 · EU pctl 27
Population density (persons per km²)
114 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 45
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
23.4%
2025 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.7 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,212 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
228 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
27.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 59
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
443 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
961 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 60
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
46 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
226 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 52
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
7 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 40
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
73 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 67
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 1
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 48
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 34
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
52
2024 · EU pctl 39
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