NUTS-3 HU331 · Hungary
Bács-Kiskun
Export region data (CSV)Bács-Kiskun generates €7.7bn of GDP across 488.5k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 41.3/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic growth and economic scale. Its economy has grown +5.1%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 6.7pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (85th EU percentile) and weakest for health (6.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
41.3
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth57
Livability37.3
Market access22
Economic scale49
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)
40.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability24
Labour stability26
Diversification91
Demographic stability22
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)
32.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density61
Airport access14
Market access22
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)
16.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary5
Lifelong learning41
Knowledge workers16
Scientists & engineers3
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)
37.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy10
Jobs55.5
Education24.5
Health6.5
Safety42.3
Connectivity37.5
Environment85
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
57
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+6.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-1.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-1.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.5%
CAGR
Employment rate
+6.7 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.2 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 · 27.5%Diversified · HHI 1942
Agriculture 7%Industry 27.5%Construction 10%Trade · transport · ICT 19.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 16%Public · health · education 20.1%
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 · 70 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€6,659M
2024 · EU pctl 47
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€467M
2024 · EU pctl 86
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,832M
2024 · EU pctl 55
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,731M
2024 · EU pctl 61
GVA — construction (F)
€666M
2024 · EU pctl 66
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,292M
2024 · EU pctl 45
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€9,600
2023 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
22,300 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 14
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€15,800
2024 · EU pctl 12
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€6,421M
2023 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,410M
2023 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€7,243M
2023 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€603M
2024 · EU pctl 37
GVA — information & communication (J)
€83M
2024 · EU pctl 39
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,062M
2024 · EU pctl 38
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,340M
2024 · EU pctl 44
Labour market
Employment, total persons
195,950
2024 · EU pctl 72
Self-employed persons
22,400
2024 · EU pctl 61
Employment in manufacturing (C)
50,830
2024 · EU pctl 88
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
78.8%
2025 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
17.2%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
39,963
2023 · EU pctl 80
Enterprise births
3,369
2023 · EU pctl 77
Enterprise deaths
990
2023 · EU pctl 50
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.9%
2023 · EU pctl 85
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
9
2012 · EU pctl 37
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
17 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 26
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.2%
2023 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
2.8%
2025 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
24.8%
2025 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
23.3%
2025 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
9.4%
2025 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
18.1%
2025 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
4.3%
2025 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
91.7%
2025 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
619,277
2025 · EU pctl 38
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
446 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 10 · 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.
2,546
CURRENT · EU pctl 86
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
521
CURRENT · EU pctl 61
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
102
CURRENT · EU pctl 86
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
CURRENT · EU pctl 0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
309,933
2025 · EU pctl 76
Population aged 65+
107,373
2025 · EU pctl 77
Population aged under 15
71,241
2025 · EU pctl 77
Median age of population
45.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 46
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
34.6%
2025 · EU pctl 37
Crude rate of total population change
-6.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 13
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-0.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 14
Crude birth rate
8.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 64
Crude death rate
14.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Live births
4,056
2024 · EU pctl 79
Deaths
7,037
2024 · EU pctl 87
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
57.6%
2025 · EU pctl 39
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.52
2024 · EU pctl 75
Population density (persons per km²)
59 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 21
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
25.1%
2025 · EU pctl 81 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
76.5 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
682 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 87 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,709 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
306 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 46
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
10.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
617 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 38
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
73 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
136 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 37
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
29 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 83
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
65 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 59
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 29
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.
7
2024 · EU pctl 15
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
56
2024 · EU pctl 59
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