NUTS-3 DEG0S · Germany
Suhl, Kreisfreie Stadt
Suhl, Kreisfreie Stadt generates €1.3bn of GDP across 34.7k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 33.7/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +1.3%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 0.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (78.7th EU percentile) and weakest for health (25.5th).
Mandate pillar profile · EU percentiles (screener dimensions)
Air quality78
Labour market67
Connectivity64
Quality of life57
Economic base48
Cost advantage47
Energy cost36
Industrial base33
Resilience29
Talent & skills29
Growth momentum16
Freight intensity5
Each bar is this region's EU percentile on a screener pillar (higher = better for siting; cost & energy are inverted so cheap scores high). These are the exact weights you tune in the Site Screener.
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
33.7
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth16.2
Livability56.6
Market access59
Economic scale3
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)
29.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability68
Labour stability32
Diversification11
Demographic stability6
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)
64.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density72
Airport access62
Market access59
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)
77.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.57.2 µg/m³
PM1011.7 µg/m³
NO28.4 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)
56.6
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy50.5
Jobs67.5
Education52
Health25.5
Safety50.3
Connectivity72
Environment78.7
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
16.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+1.3%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+1.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-2.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-1.2%
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 · 40.6%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2664
Agriculture 0.1%Industry 15.8%Construction 5%Trade · transport · ICT 18.6%Finance · real estate · prof. 19.9%Public · health · education 40.6%
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).
Trends · 2009–2023
GDP (current prices)
€1,329M2023
5.0% 1y 1.3% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 3
Population
34,6852025
4.5% 1y 1.2% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 1
Employment
19,7002023
0.9% 1y 12.5% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 2
Gross value added
€1,214M2023
6.6% 1y 1.7% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 4
All indicators · 73 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€1,214M
2023 · EU pctl 4
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€2M
2023 · EU pctl 1
GVA — industry (B–E)
€192M
2023 · EU pctl 4
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€161M
2023 · EU pctl 6
GVA — construction (F)
€61M
2023 · EU pctl 5
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€225M
2023 · EU pctl 3
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)
32,600 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 48
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€36,600
2023 · EU pctl 55
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)
€241M
2023 · EU pctl 4
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€493M
2023 · EU pctl 10
Labour market
Employment, total persons
19,700
2023 · EU pctl 2
Self-employed persons
1,600
2023 · EU pctl 0
Employment in manufacturing (C)
2,620
2023 · EU pctl 5
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)
1,277
2023 · EU pctl 0
Enterprise births
66
2023 · EU pctl 0
Enterprise deaths
88
2023 · EU pctl 1
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.9%
2023 · EU pctl 8
Innovation & R&D
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
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE)
1.3%
2023 · EU pctl 55 · 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)
188,461
2024 · EU pctl 11
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
568 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
271 kt
2025 · EU pctl 1
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
216
CURRENT · EU pctl 27
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
623
CURRENT · EU pctl 72
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²)
32 km/1000km²
2024 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
43
CURRENT · EU pctl 37
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)
19,106
2025 · EU pctl 1
Population aged 65+
11,984
2025 · EU pctl 4
Population aged under 15
3,595
2025 · EU pctl 1
Median age of population
56.1 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 100
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
62.7%
2025 · EU pctl 100
Crude rate of total population change
-45.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-34.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Crude birth rate
5.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 5
Crude death rate
16.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 94
Live births
187
2024 · EU pctl 1
Deaths
573
2024 · EU pctl 3
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
81.5%
2025 · EU pctl 99
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.38
2024 · EU pctl 47
Population density (persons per km²)
252 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 70
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
63.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 88
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
259 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 59
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,837 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
46 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.161/kWh
2025-S2 · EU pctl 64
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.055/kWh
2025-S2 · EU pctl 53
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
566 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 85
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 12
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
103 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 88
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 62
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 17
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
8
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).
74
2024 · EU pctl 97
Population in the 100-year river floodplain (% of residents, EFAS × census grid)
0.0%
2021 · EU pctl 0
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