NUTS-3 HU120 · Hungary
Pest
Export region data (CSV)Pest generates €24bn of GDP across 1.3m residents. Its Opportunity Index of 62.3/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +9.6%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 6.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for jobs (86.5th EU percentile) and weakest for health (10th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
62.3
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth81.8
Livability41.2
Market access41
Economic scale85
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)
45.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability12
Labour stability36
Diversification49
Demographic stability84
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)
55.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density42
Airport access83
Market access41
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)
37.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary24
Lifelong learning18
Knowledge workers60
Scientists & engineers49
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)
41.2
/ 100 · EU-relative · 6/7 pillars
Economy19
Jobs86.5
Education26
Health10
Safety61.3
Connectivity44.5
Environment—
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
81.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+9.6%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+8.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.2 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+3.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.7%
CAGR
Employment rate
+6.0 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.3 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: Finance · real estate · prof. · 27.6%Diversified · HHI 2255
Agriculture 1.8%Industry 24%Construction 8.7%Trade · transport · ICT 26.6%Finance · real estate · prof. 27.6%Public · health · education 11.3%
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 · 67 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€20,786M
2024 · EU pctl 84
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€367M
2024 · EU pctl 79
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,988M
2024 · EU pctl 88
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4,599M
2024 · EU pctl 90
GVA — construction (F)
€1,802M
2024 · EU pctl 92
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€5,538M
2024 · EU pctl 87
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€11,600
2023 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
25,600 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 24
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€18,100
2024 · EU pctl 16
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€5,252M
2023 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,013M
2023 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€8,334M
2023 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€3,429M
2024 · EU pctl 84
GVA — information & communication (J)
€761M
2024 · EU pctl 81
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€5,745M
2024 · EU pctl 85
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,346M
2024 · EU pctl 67
Labour market
Employment, total persons
543,720
2024 · EU pctl 95
Self-employed persons
55,800
2024 · EU pctl 89
Employment in manufacturing (C)
106,150
2024 · EU pctl 98
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
79.2%
2025 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
9.2%
2025 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
141,582
2023 · EU pctl 97
Enterprise births
13,818
2023 · EU pctl 96
Enterprise deaths
3,717
2023 · EU pctl 82
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.6%
2023 · EU pctl 80
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.4%
2023 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
7.6%
2025 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
34.1%
2025 · EU pctl 46 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
33.0%
2025 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
7.4%
2025 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
25.0%
2025 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
8.4%
2025 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
95.3%
2025 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,541,555
2025 · EU pctl 63
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
497 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 19 · 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.
4,343
CURRENT · EU pctl 95
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
325
CURRENT · EU pctl 42
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
22
CURRENT · EU pctl 16
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)
875,838
2025 · EU pctl 96
Population aged 65+
240,534
2025 · EU pctl 95
Population aged under 15
219,762
2025 · EU pctl 96
Median age of population
43.2 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 20
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
27.5%
2025 · EU pctl 7
Crude rate of total population change
2.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 59
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 53
Crude birth rate
8.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Crude death rate
11.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 44
Live births
11,268
2024 · EU pctl 96
Deaths
15,138
2024 · EU pctl 98
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
52.6%
2025 · EU pctl 12
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.44
2024 · EU pctl 59
Population density (persons per km²)
213 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 66
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
16.0%
2025 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
77.5 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
215 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,618 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
306 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 51
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
4.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 8
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
525 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 33
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
36 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
150 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 40
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
21 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 78
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
67 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 61
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 60
Environment
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
50
2024 · EU pctl 26
Similar regions · nearest peers on standardised NUTS-3 indicators
Other Hungary regions