NUTS-3 ES620 · Spain
Murcia
Export region data (CSV)Murcia generates €40bn of GDP across 1.6m residents. Its Opportunity Index of 59.1/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +4.7%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 5.3pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (76th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (8th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
59.1
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth73
Livability38.3
Market access32
Economic scale93
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 stability43
Labour stability5
Diversification86
Demographic stability93
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)
29.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density7
Airport access50
Market access32
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)
46.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary64
Lifelong learning77
Knowledge workers29
Scientists & engineers15
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)
16.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.511.8 µg/m³
PM1027.7 µg/m³
NO215.7 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)
38.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy29.5
Jobs8
Education40.5
Health76
Safety49
Connectivity48.5
Environment16.7
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
73
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.7%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.0%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.7 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.5 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.0%
CAGR
Employment rate
+5.3 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-4.1 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: Trade · transport · ICT · 25.8%Diversified · HHI 2023
Agriculture 6.4%Industry 20.7%Construction 5.9%Trade · transport · ICT 25.8%Finance · real estate · prof. 19.6%Public · health · education 21.6%
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).
All indicators · 70 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€36,306M
2023 · EU pctl 93
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€2,311M
2023 · EU pctl 100
GVA — industry (B–E)
€7,516M
2023 · EU pctl 93
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€5,676M
2023 · EU pctl 93
GVA — construction (F)
€2,126M
2023 · EU pctl 94
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€9,371M
2023 · EU pctl 94
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€15,800
2023 · EU pctl 26 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
28,700 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 33
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€25,500
2023 · EU pctl 28
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€7,463M
2023 · EU pctl 22 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,244M
2023 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€20,436M
2024 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€7,126M
2023 · EU pctl 90
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€7,857M
2023 · EU pctl 93
Labour market
Employment, total persons
671,900
2023 · EU pctl 96
Self-employed persons
99,500
2023 · EU pctl 96
Employment in manufacturing (C)
77,000
2023 · EU pctl 95
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
72.6%
2025 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
25.4%
2025 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
99,842
2023 · EU pctl 95
Enterprise births
9,377
2023 · EU pctl 94
Enterprise deaths
8,030
2023 · EU pctl 94
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.4%
2023 · EU pctl 52
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
29
2012 · EU pctl 65
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
20 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 27
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.1%
2023 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
2.3%
2025 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
35.2%
2025 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
44.3%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
15.8%
2025 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
20.0%
2025 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
5.8%
2025 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
98.4%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
5,710,567
2024 · EU pctl 89
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
543 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 29 · 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.
30
CURRENT · EU pctl 16
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 7
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
55
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
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)
1,073,255
2025 · EU pctl 98
Population aged 65+
270,334
2025 · EU pctl 96
Population aged under 15
243,400
2025 · EU pctl 97
Median age of population
42.8 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 17
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
25.2%
2025 · EU pctl 3
Crude rate of total population change
11.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 94
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
11.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 89
Crude birth rate
7.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 53
Crude death rate
7.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 4
Live births
12,504
2024 · EU pctl 96
Deaths
11,708
2024 · EU pctl 96
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
47.9%
2025 · EU pctl 4
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.32
2024 · EU pctl 37
Population density (persons per km²)
140 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 53
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
32.5%
2025 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.5 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 83 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
297 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
932 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
213 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 63
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
137 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
396 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 80
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
338 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 21
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
53 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
630 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 87
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
77 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 98
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
8 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 9
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 53
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
28
2024 · EU pctl 97
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
16
2024 · EU pctl 71
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 73
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