NUTS-3 PL518 · Poland
Wrocławski
Export region data (CSV)Wrocławski generates €14bn of GDP across 635.7k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 58.3/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic growth and economic scale. Its economy has grown +11.8%/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)
58.3
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth79.2
Livability46.9
Market access35
Economic scale72
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)
32.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability11
Labour stability19
Diversification5
Demographic stability96
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)
42.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density21
Airport access72
Market access35
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)
40
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.5—
PM1019.4 µg/m³
NO211 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)
46.9
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy29
Jobs68.5
Education70
Health13.5
Safety64.7
Connectivity42.5
Environment40
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
79.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+11.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+9.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+2.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+4.0 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.3%
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 · 47.7%Moderately concentrated · HHI 3054
Agriculture 2.1%Industry 47.7%Construction 5.6%Trade · transport · ICT 22%Finance · real estate · prof. 12.1%Public · health · education 10.4%
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)
€12,555M
2023 · EU pctl 72
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€266M
2023 · EU pctl 70
GVA — industry (B–E)
€5,992M
2023 · EU pctl 91
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€5,754M
2023 · EU pctl 93
GVA — construction (F)
€705M
2023 · EU pctl 68
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,765M
2023 · EU pctl 74
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)
31,600 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 44
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€21,400
2023 · EU pctl 22
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)
€1,524M
2023 · EU pctl 51
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,304M
2023 · EU pctl 43
Labour market
Employment, total persons
282,700
2023 · EU pctl 84
Self-employed persons
54,800
2023 · EU pctl 89
Employment in manufacturing (C)
91,600
2023 · EU pctl 97
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)
47,647
2023 · EU pctl 85
Enterprise births
5,250
2023 · EU pctl 86
Enterprise deaths
5,872
2023 · EU pctl 91
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.5%
2023 · EU pctl 78
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
4
2012 · EU pctl 22
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
7 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 16
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)
541,293
2024 · EU pctl 34
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.
102
CURRENT · EU pctl 25
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
16
CURRENT · EU pctl 21
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
33
CURRENT · EU pctl 28
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)
413,955
2025 · EU pctl 86
Population aged 65+
114,803
2025 · EU pctl 78
Population aged under 15
106,984
2025 · EU pctl 89
Median age of population
41.9 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 11
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
27.7%
2025 · EU pctl 7
Crude rate of total population change
6.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 84
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
9.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 84
Crude birth rate
7.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 45
Crude death rate
9.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 18
Live births
4,784
2024 · EU pctl 84
Deaths
6,170
2024 · EU pctl 82
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
53.6%
2025 · EU pctl 15
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.25
2024 · EU pctl 27
Population density (persons per km²)
100 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 41
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
0.2 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 22
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
4.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 9
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
146 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 34
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
262 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 17
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
52 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
129 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 36
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
10 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 59
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
72 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 66
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 52
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
19
2024 · EU pctl 79
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
11
2024 · EU pctl 41
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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