NUTS-3 SE124 · Sweden
Örebro län
Export region data (CSV)Örebro län generates €14bn of GDP across 308.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 45.7/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and livability. Its economy has grown +3.3%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for education (90th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (19th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
45.7
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth29.4
Livability54.4
Market access27
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)
52.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability20
Labour stability79
Diversification53
Demographic stability58
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)
17
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density8
Airport access16
Market access27
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)
92.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary82
Lifelong learning100
Knowledge workers93
Scientists & engineers95
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)
54.4
/ 100 · EU-relative · 6/7 pillars
Economy54
Jobs31.5
Education90
Health84.5
Safety47.5
Connectivity19
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
29.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.3%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.6%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.7 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.2%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.2 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
0.0 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: Public · health · education · 30.7%Diversified · HHI 2229
Agriculture 2%Industry 24%Construction 7.2%Trade · transport · ICT 19.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 16.7%Public · health · education 30.7%
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 · 69 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€12,753M
2024 · EU pctl 72
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€257M
2024 · EU pctl 68
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,063M
2024 · EU pctl 72
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,610M
2024 · EU pctl 75
GVA — construction (F)
€920M
2024 · EU pctl 78
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,461M
2024 · EU pctl 71
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€22,200
2023 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
38,800 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 70
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€45,900
2024 · EU pctl 77
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€19,140M
2023 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,614M
2023 · EU pctl 76 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€37,294M
2023 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,045M
2024 · EU pctl 54
GVA — information & communication (J)
€406M
2024 · EU pctl 71
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,135M
2024 · EU pctl 63
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,917M
2024 · EU pctl 82
Labour market
Employment, total persons
153,870
2024 · EU pctl 63
Self-employed persons
7,200
2024 · EU pctl 24
Employment in manufacturing (C)
20,800
2024 · EU pctl 57
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
82.3%
2025 · EU pctl 81 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
28.1%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
20,055
2023 · EU pctl 61
Enterprise births
1,645
2023 · EU pctl 57
Enterprise deaths
1,332
2023 · EU pctl 57
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.2%
2023 · EU pctl 68
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
18
2012 · EU pctl 52
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
64 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 43
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
4.4%
2023 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.2%
2025 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
46.6%
2025 · EU pctl 89 · 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)
38.4%
2025 · EU pctl 100 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
33.0%
2025 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
13.7%
2025 · EU pctl 95 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.0%
2025 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,248,819
2024 · EU pctl 58
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
474 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 14 · 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.
8
CURRENT · EU pctl 8
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 8
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
96
CURRENT · EU pctl 84
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)
188,493
2025 · EU pctl 58
Population aged 65+
68,324
2025 · EU pctl 57
Population aged under 15
51,558
2025 · EU pctl 67
Median age of population
41.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 11
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
36.2%
2025 · EU pctl 47
Crude rate of total population change
0.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 51
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 19
Crude birth rate
9.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Crude death rate
9.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 13
Live births
2,814
2024 · EU pctl 68
Deaths
2,828
2024 · EU pctl 47
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
63.6%
2025 · EU pctl 76
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.48
2024 · EU pctl 67
Population density (persons per km²)
36 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 11
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
20.7%
2025 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.7 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
185 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
859 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 17 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
207 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
50.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
787 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
3,058 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 99
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
23 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
193 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 47
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 8
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
121 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 93
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 26
Environment
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
55
2024 · EU pctl 58
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