NUTS-3 PL516 · Poland
Legnicko-głogowski
Export region data (CSV)Legnicko-głogowski generates €10.0bn of GDP across 415.2k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 44.4/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +6.4%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 4.9pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for education (70th EU percentile) and weakest for health (13.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
44.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth45.2
Livability40.4
Market access33
Economic scale59
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)
7.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability3
Labour stability19
Diversification3
Demographic stability5
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)
30.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density19
Airport access39
Market access33
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)
80.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary82
Lifelong learning61
Knowledge workers90
Scientists & engineers88
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)
16.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.519.5 µg/m³
PM1023.4 µg/m³
NO214.2 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)
40.4
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy34.5
Jobs68.5
Education70
Health13.5
Safety38
Connectivity41.5
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
45.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+6.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+2.9 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-1.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-1.2%
CAGR
Employment rate
+4.9 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 · 50.3%Moderately concentrated · HHI 3154
Agriculture 1.5%Industry 50.3%Construction 7.5%Trade · transport · ICT 16.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 11.8%Public · health · education 12.6%
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)
€9,010M
2023 · EU pctl 59
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€132M
2023 · EU pctl 47
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,532M
2023 · EU pctl 85
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,047M
2023 · EU pctl 81
GVA — construction (F)
€679M
2023 · EU pctl 66
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,474M
2023 · EU pctl 51
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€11,700
2023 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
34,300 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 55
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€23,200
2023 · EU pctl 24
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€10,003M
2023 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,337M
2023 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€25,600M
2023 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,061M
2023 · EU pctl 37
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,131M
2023 · EU pctl 37
Labour market
Employment, total persons
190,200
2023 · EU pctl 71
Self-employed persons
31,300
2023 · EU pctl 72
Employment in manufacturing (C)
36,200
2023 · EU pctl 78
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
77.1%
2025 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
18.0%
2025 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
23,094
2023 · EU pctl 65
Enterprise births
2,689
2023 · EU pctl 72
Enterprise deaths
3,151
2023 · EU pctl 78
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.5%
2023 · EU pctl 77
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
1
2012 · EU pctl 13
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
3 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 9
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.7%
2023 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.8%
2025 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
44.2%
2025 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
50.5%
2025 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
11.7%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
32.4%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
11.9%
2025 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.2%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
375,133
2024 · EU pctl 24
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
640 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 74 · 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.
51
CURRENT · EU pctl 21
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
12
CURRENT · EU pctl 19
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
64
CURRENT · EU pctl 61
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)
262,994
2025 · EU pctl 72
Population aged 65+
93,510
2025 · EU pctl 71
Population aged under 15
58,739
2025 · EU pctl 71
Median age of population
44.8 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 35
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.6%
2025 · EU pctl 43
Crude rate of total population change
-6.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 14
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-0.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 11
Crude birth rate
6.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 18
Crude death rate
11.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 48
Live births
2,600
2024 · EU pctl 65
Deaths
4,798
2024 · EU pctl 73
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
57.9%
2025 · EU pctl 40
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.13
2024 · EU pctl 12
Population density (persons per km²)
121 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 48
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
10.5%
2025 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
78.1 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
739 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,486 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
280 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
24.2 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 55
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
460 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 86
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
590 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 37
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
52 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
167 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 43
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
10 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 60
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
72 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 66
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 20
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
23
2024 · EU pctl 90
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 61
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 44
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