Heilbronn slips into 12th place in the future atlas - remain positive trends!

Heilbronn slips into 12th place in the future atlas - remain positive trends!

The district of heilbronn is in the current Prognos Futureatlas 2025 Leaded future opportunities in Germany. This is a little deterioration compared to 2022, when Heilbronn was still tenth and even ranked 22nd in 2019.

This survey, which is carried out every three years by the business research company Prognos AG, evaluates the future viability of 400 circles and independent cities. A total of 29 indicators from the areas of demography, labor market, competition and innovation as well as prosperity and social situation flow into the evaluation. The district showed a gratifying improvement in the area of ​​prosperity by five places since the last survey.

comparison with neighboring regions

In a regional comparison, the city of Heilbronn ranks 69, while the Hohenlohekreis makes it to the 58th place. The Munich district secures first place in the ranking, while the district of Görlitz in Saxony can be found at the lower end of the list. The analysis also takes a look at the economic development of the past 20 years.

The economic indicators are not only gratifying. The labor market situation in 380 of the 400 counties has deteriorated throughout Germany. So employment growth has decreased in 90 regions. This shows that the current recession is regarded as a stress test for the resilience of the regions.

challenges and opportunities

economic researchers point out that structural upheavals, digitization and demographic changes represent new challenges for many counties. Nevertheless, there are bright spots: While many regions in Germany are fighting with high risks, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg impressively demonstrate their leading position in future viability. Over 70 percent of the regions in Bavaria and 91 percent in Baden-Württemberg have above-average future channels, so Kommunal.de .

District Administrator Norbert Heuser has optimistically commented on the future chances of the district and emphasizes the need to further promote innovative approaches. At the same time, it is clear that a successful future also depends on the expansion of renewable energies and on a well -trained skilled worker basis.

The next edition of the forecast Futureatlas will be published in another three years, and it remains exciting to see how the regions will develop until then.