# Regions of Germany (NUTS 2) by active enterprises, 2023

All 38 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `active_enterprises`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Enterprises that had turnover or employment at any time during the year, with or without employees.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/active-enterprises/germany-regions

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Oberbayern | 243,560 |
| 2 | Düsseldorf | 202,963 |
| 3 | Köln | 181,536 |
| 4 | Darmstadt | 173,264 |
| 5 | Berlin | 170,919 |
| 6 | Stuttgart | 156,559 |
| 7 | Arnsberg | 118,162 |
| 8 | Schleswig-Holstein | 113,148 |
| 9 | Karlsruhe | 108,982 |
| 10 | Hamburg | 91,932 |
| 11 | Brandenburg | 89,829 |
| 12 | Freiburg | 89,579 |
| 13 | Weser-Ems | 89,020 |
| 14 | Münster | 88,930 |
| 15 | Schwaben | 80,173 |
| 16 | Tübingen | 73,881 |
| 17 | Detmold | 73,843 |
| 18 | Hannover | 73,166 |
| 19 | Rheinhessen-Pfalz | 71,666 |
| 20 | Mittelfranken | 69,623 |
| 21 | Thüringen | 69,226 |
| 22 | Sachsen-Anhalt | 63,068 |
| 23 | Lüneburg | 58,906 |
| 24 | Koblenz | 56,526 |
| 25 | Dresden | 55,503 |
| 26 | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 54,481 |
| 27 | Niederbayern | 53,978 |
| 28 | Unterfranken | 50,757 |
| 29 | Chemnitz | 49,900 |
| 30 | Braunschweig | 43,548 |
| 31 | Oberpfalz | 43,180 |
| 32 | Kassel | 40,490 |
| 33 | Oberfranken | 38,674 |
| 34 | Leipzig | 38,399 |
| 35 | Gießen | 37,291 |
| 36 | Saarland | 34,720 |
| 37 | Bremen | 22,861 |
| 38 | Trier | 18,504 |