NUTS-3 DK012 · Denmark
Københavns omegn
Export region data (CSV)Københavns omegn generates €69bn of GDP across 582.1k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 73.3/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and livability. Its economy has grown +8.7%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 2.3pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for economy (96th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (51th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
73.3
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth64.8
Livability72.3
Market access60
Economic scale96
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)
56.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability61
Labour stability62
Diversification8
Demographic stability95
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)
63.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density44
Airport access87
Market access60
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)
98.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary98
Lifelong learning98
Knowledge workers98
Scientists & engineers99
Young tertiary attainment (25–34), adult lifelong learning, knowledge-worker share and scientists & engineers — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = deeper talent pool. Experimental.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
72.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy96
Jobs51
Education95
Health62.5
Safety57.3
Connectivity64
Environment80
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
64.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+8.7%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+6.0%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+2.7 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+4.3 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.2%
CAGR
Employment rate
+2.3 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.7 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 · 40.5%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2775
Industry 40.5%Construction 2.3%Trade · transport · ICT 20.8%Finance · real estate · prof. 22.5%Public · health · education 13.9%
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 · 70 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€60,813M
2024 · EU pctl 96
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€10M
2024 · EU pctl 7
GVA — industry (B–E)
€24,612M
2024 · EU pctl 100
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€23,824M
2024 · EU pctl 100
GVA — construction (F)
€1,406M
2024 · EU pctl 88
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€12,653M
2024 · EU pctl 96
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€30,400
2024 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
91,900 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 99
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€118,900
2024 · EU pctl 99
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€37,409M
2023 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€9,284M
2023 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€83,324M
2024 · EU pctl 87 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,886M
2024 · EU pctl 83
GVA — information & communication (J)
€2,297M
2024 · EU pctl 90
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€13,662M
2024 · EU pctl 96
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€8,469M
2024 · EU pctl 94
Labour market
Employment, total persons
386,450
2024 · EU pctl 90
Self-employed persons
13,530
2024 · EU pctl 45
Employment in manufacturing (C)
40,560
2024 · EU pctl 82
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
84.9%
2025 · EU pctl 95 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
13.9%
2025 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
39,980
2023 · EU pctl 80
Enterprise births
3,216
2023 · EU pctl 75
Enterprise deaths
3,965
2023 · EU pctl 84
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.5%
2023 · EU pctl 22
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
132
2012 · EU pctl 94
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
253 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 82
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
4.6%
2023 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
11.2%
2025 · EU pctl 99 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
58.2%
2025 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
64.7%
2025 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
35.0%
2025 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
39.4%
2025 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
14.8%
2025 · EU pctl 99 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
97.8%
2025 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
761,745
2024 · EU pctl 45
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
416 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 5 · 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.
2,036
CURRENT · EU pctl 79
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
350
CURRENT · EU pctl 44
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
19
CURRENT · EU pctl 12
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)
373,428
2025 · EU pctl 83
Population aged 65+
107,760
2025 · EU pctl 77
Population aged under 15
100,909
2025 · EU pctl 87
Median age of population
40.4 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 5
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
28.9%
2025 · EU pctl 10
Crude rate of total population change
16.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 97
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
15.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Crude birth rate
9.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 93
Crude death rate
8.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 10
Live births
5,611
2024 · EU pctl 88
Deaths
5,025
2024 · EU pctl 74
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
55.9%
2025 · EU pctl 26
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.53
2024 · EU pctl 77
Population density (persons per km²)
1,750 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 94
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
18.9%
2025 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.4 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
270 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
979 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 40 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
250 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 29
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
29.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 63
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
602 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 94
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
3,051 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
12 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
20 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 7
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 7
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 3
Environment
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 20
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