NUTS-3 DEG0J · Germany
Saale-Holzland-Kreis
Export region data (CSV)Saale-Holzland-Kreis generates €2.6bn of GDP across 83.3k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 43/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and market access. Its economy has grown +5.9%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 0.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (84th EU percentile) and weakest for health (25.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
43
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth48.6
Livability59.2
Market access52
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)
56.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability75
Labour stability32
Diversification70
Demographic stability50
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 density80
Airport access44
Market access52
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)
83
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.57.2 µg/m³
PM1012.1 µg/m³
NO23.1 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)
59.2
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy41.5
Jobs67.5
Education52
Health25.5
Safety63.7
Connectivity80
Environment84
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
48.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.9%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.8%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+2.0 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.6 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.1%
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: Industry · 30%Diversified · HHI 2138
Agriculture 3.6%Industry 30%Construction 7.9%Trade · transport · ICT 16.8%Finance · real estate · prof. 18.7%Public · health · education 23.1%
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)
€2,376M
2023 · EU pctl 12
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€84M
2023 · EU pctl 32
GVA — industry (B–E)
€712M
2023 · EU pctl 22
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€591M
2023 · EU pctl 26
GVA — construction (F)
€187M
2023 · EU pctl 18
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€400M
2023 · EU pctl 11
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)
27,600 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 30
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€31,000
2023 · EU pctl 39
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)
€444M
2023 · EU pctl 12
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€549M
2023 · EU pctl 11
Labour market
Employment, total persons
23,180
2023 · EU pctl 3
Self-employed persons
2,450
2023 · EU pctl 2
Employment in manufacturing (C)
6,980
2023 · EU pctl 18
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)
2,723
2023 · EU pctl 5
Enterprise births
128
2023 · EU pctl 2
Enterprise deaths
189
2023 · EU pctl 5
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.5%
2023 · EU pctl 21
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
20
2012 · EU pctl 55
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
236 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 80
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)
184,718
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.
615
CURRENT · EU pctl 40
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
738
CURRENT · EU pctl 80
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
60
CURRENT · EU pctl 56
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)
48,858
2025 · EU pctl 9
Population aged 65+
23,883
2025 · EU pctl 13
Population aged under 15
10,601
2025 · EU pctl 9
Median age of population
51.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 92
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
48.9%
2025 · EU pctl 93
Crude rate of total population change
-8.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 8
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-1.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 8
Crude birth rate
4.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 2
Crude death rate
12.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 57
Live births
413
2024 · EU pctl 5
Deaths
1,009
2024 · EU pctl 9
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
70.6%
2025 · EU pctl 92
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.22
2024 · EU pctl 23
Population density (persons per km²)
103 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 42
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
19.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 45
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
208 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 50
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
910 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 58
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
46 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
357 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 67
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
8 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 52
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
70 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 63
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.
12
2024 · EU pctl 20
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
3
2024 · EU pctl 3
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
55
2024 · EU pctl 58
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