NUTS-3 SK021 · Slovakia
Trnavský kraj
Export region data (CSV)Trnavský kraj generates €15bn of GDP across 565.9k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 56.2/100 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 5.4pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for jobs (66.5th EU percentile) and weakest for health (11th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
56.2
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth71.6
Livability31.2
Market access48
Economic scale74
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)
32.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability36
Labour stability18
Diversification30
Demographic stability46
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
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density26
Airport access70
Market access48
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)
26.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary32
Lifelong learning51
Knowledge workers8
Scientists & engineers14
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)
28.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.512.4 µg/m³
PM1018.7 µg/m³
NO213.2 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)
31.2
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy32
Jobs66.5
Education18.5
Health11
Safety43
Connectivity19
Environment28.3
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
71.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+6.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+5.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.9 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.0%
CAGR
Employment rate
+5.4 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.4 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 · 35.2%Diversified · HHI 2387
Agriculture 1.6%Industry 35.2%Construction 5.5%Trade · transport · ICT 20.6%Finance · real estate · prof. 18.4%Public · health · education 18.7%
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 · 72 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€13,570M
2024 · EU pctl 74
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€213M
2024 · EU pctl 62
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,781M
2024 · EU pctl 86
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,845M
2024 · EU pctl 78
GVA — construction (F)
€746M
2024 · EU pctl 71
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,797M
2024 · EU pctl 74
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€11,900
2023 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
32,900 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 49
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€26,300
2024 · EU pctl 30
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€8,200M
2024 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,104M
2024 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€15,474M
2023 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,755M
2024 · EU pctl 72
GVA — information & communication (J)
€826M
2024 · EU pctl 82
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,497M
2024 · EU pctl 69
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,536M
2024 · EU pctl 68
Labour market
Employment, total persons
246,660
2024 · EU pctl 80
Self-employed persons
35,090
2024 · EU pctl 76
Employment in manufacturing (C)
56,750
2023 · EU pctl 90
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
76.7%
2025 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
13.0%
2020 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
66,705
2023 · EU pctl 90
Enterprise births
8,126
2023 · EU pctl 92
Enterprise deaths
8,971
2023 · EU pctl 95
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.0%
2023 · EU pctl 87
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
2
2012 · EU pctl 17
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
4 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 11
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.9%
2023 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.8%
2025 · EU pctl 40 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
25.0%
2025 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
35.3%
2025 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
10.2%
2025 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
16.8%
2025 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
5.7%
2025 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
91.1%
2025 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,336,477
2024 · EU pctl 59
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
528 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 26 · 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.
204
CURRENT · EU pctl 27
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
36
CURRENT · EU pctl 26
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
36
CURRENT · EU pctl 30
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
373,130
2025 · EU pctl 83
Population aged 65+
109,482
2025 · EU pctl 77
Population aged under 15
83,288
2025 · EU pctl 82
Median age of population
44.3 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 29
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
29.3%
2025 · EU pctl 11
Crude rate of total population change
-0.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 42
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 32
Crude birth rate
7.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 39
Crude death rate
10.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 28
Live births
4,154
2024 · EU pctl 80
Deaths
5,901
2024 · EU pctl 81
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
51.7%
2025 · EU pctl 9
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.26
2024 · EU pctl 28
Population density (persons per km²)
139 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 53
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
14.0%
2025 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
78.4 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
467 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,707 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
271 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
5.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 10
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
51.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 7
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
130 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 5
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
66 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
132 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 36
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
24 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 80
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
73 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 76
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
13
2024 · EU pctl 55
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
51
2024 · EU pctl 32
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