NUTS-3 PL229 · Poland
Gliwicki
Export region data (CSV)Gliwicki generates €11bn of GDP across 422k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 53.6/100 is mid-table 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 6.6pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for jobs (67.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (11th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
53.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth64
Livability42.3
Market access42
Economic scale66
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)
12.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability14
Labour stability25
Diversification9
Demographic stability1
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)
48.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density40
Airport access64
Market access42
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)
56.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary58
Lifelong learning9
Knowledge workers80
Scientists & engineers79
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)
11
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.5—
PM1027 µg/m³
NO218.5 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)
42.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy43.5
Jobs67.5
Education46
Health12
Safety65.3
Connectivity50.5
Environment11
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
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+9.6%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+7.2%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+2.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.8 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-1.8%
CAGR
Employment rate
+6.6 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.1 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: Industry · 42.5%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2746
Agriculture 0.4%Industry 42.5%Construction 7%Trade · transport · ICT 22.5%Finance · real estate · prof. 14.8%Public · health · education 12.7%
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)
€10,322M
2023 · EU pctl 65
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€41M
2023 · EU pctl 17
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,388M
2023 · EU pctl 84
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,394M
2023 · EU pctl 73
GVA — construction (F)
€727M
2023 · EU pctl 70
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,327M
2023 · EU pctl 68
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€12,700
2023 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
38,600 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 69
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€26,100
2023 · EU pctl 29
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€14,344M
2023 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€4,197M
2023 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€36,613M
2023 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,527M
2023 · EU pctl 51
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,313M
2023 · EU pctl 43
Labour market
Employment, total persons
219,800
2023 · EU pctl 76
Self-employed persons
29,800
2023 · EU pctl 70
Employment in manufacturing (C)
46,500
2023 · EU pctl 86
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
73.1%
2025 · EU pctl 22 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
9.3%
2024 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
28,906
2023 · EU pctl 72
Enterprise births
2,976
2023 · EU pctl 74
Enterprise deaths
3,560
2023 · EU pctl 81
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.6%
2023 · EU pctl 80
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
8
2012 · EU pctl 34
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
16 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 24
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.0%
2023 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.2%
2025 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
38.4%
2025 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
43.1%
2025 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
6.3%
2025 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
28.5%
2025 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
10.8%
2025 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.1%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
402,441
2024 · EU pctl 27
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
602 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 53 · 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.
1,272
CURRENT · EU pctl 63
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
301
CURRENT · EU pctl 40
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
42
CURRENT · EU pctl 36
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
269,579
2025 · EU pctl 72
Population aged 65+
94,394
2025 · EU pctl 71
Population aged under 15
58,050
2025 · EU pctl 71
Median age of population
45.1 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 39
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.0%
2025 · EU pctl 39
Crude rate of total population change
-7.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 11
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-1.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 6
Crude birth rate
6.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 21
Crude death rate
11.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 53
Live births
2,702
2024 · EU pctl 67
Deaths
4,985
2024 · EU pctl 74
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
56.5%
2025 · EU pctl 30
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.13
2024 · EU pctl 12
Population density (persons per km²)
489 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 82
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
10.0%
2025 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
78.0 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
613 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,544 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 87 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
295 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 66
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
12.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 31
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
177 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 42
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
299 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 19
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
30 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
245 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 54
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
8 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 48
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
79 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 72
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 44
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
27
2024 · EU pctl 96
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
19
2024 · EU pctl 82
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
53
2024 · EU pctl 43
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