B2B prospect lists for Austria.

01  The Austrian market

Nine Bundesländer, from Vienna to Vorarlberg

Austria had 9,215,956 residents on 1 January 2026, spread over nine federal states (Bundesländer): Vienna (2,040,914), Lower Austria (1,729,541), Upper Austria (1,537,159), Styria (1,271,764), Tyrol (779,060), Salzburg (573,526), Carinthia (569,990), Vorarlberg (412,307) and Burgenland (301,695). Vienna is both the capital and a Bundesland. The other state capitals are St. Pölten, Linz, Graz, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Klagenfurt, Bregenz and Eisenstadt. A prospect list can be scoped to one Bundesland, several neighbouring Bundesländer or the whole country.

Industrial and manufacturing: Upper Austria and Styria

Statistik Austria counted 662,330 people working in 33,262 mining and manufacturing establishments in June 2026 (preliminary). Upper Austria had 181,710, Styria 114,805 and Lower Austria 108,892. Machinery employed 94,536, including 34,783 in Upper Austria and 15,912 in Styria. Metal production employed 37,962 (Upper Austria 13,494, Styria 10,216), and motor vehicles and parts 30,536, mostly in Styria (10,816) and Upper Austria (10,498). Vorarlberg had 12,005 people in fabricated metal products. At commune level, industry and construction accounted for about 40,000 workplace jobs in Linz and 37,000 in Graz at the end of October 2024, and for more than half of all jobs in Kapfenberg (54%), Lenzing (73%) and Kundl (71%).

Energy and environmental technology: hydro, wind and solar

E-Control, the energy regulator, reports gross electricity generation of 73,130 GWh in 2025, down from 81,924 GWh in 2024, mainly because hydropower fell to 37,085 GWh. Run-of-river plants produced 24,424 GWh, led by Upper Austria (7,446 GWh) and Lower Austria (5,666 GWh); storage plants produced 12,661 GWh, mostly in Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Salzburg and Carinthia. Solar output rose 28% to 9,809 GWh. Wind produced 8,578 GWh, of which 4,821 GWh in Lower Austria and 3,018 GWh in Burgenland. Thermal plants produced 17,658 GWh, 9,538 GWh of it from natural gas. Energy supply counted 5,455 establishments with 36,524 people in June 2026.

Pharma and life sciences: Vienna and Tyrol

Pharmaceutical manufacturing employed 21,973 people in 139 establishments in June 2026 (preliminary). Vienna had 7,569 in 47 establishments and Tyrol 6,514 in 12, followed by Styria (2,827), Upper Austria (1,947) and Lower Austria (1,526). Figures for Burgenland, Carinthia and Vorarlberg are confidential. Chemicals employed another 19,961, of whom 7,664 were in Upper Austria.

Food and agriculture: Upper and Lower Austria

Food and feed manufacturing employed 81,086 people in 4,278 establishments in June 2026: Upper Austria 19,859, Lower Austria 18,037 and Styria 11,895. Beverages added 9,682. The 2023 farm structure survey counted 101,036 farms averaging 25.6 hectares, 23.8% of them organic. On 1 December 2025 Austria had 1,814,683 cattle, of which 528,566 in Upper Austria, 398,595 in Lower Austria and 297,014 in Styria, and 2,479,050 pigs, of which 998,420 in Upper Austria.

How an Austrian list is built

Choose your unit, describe what you sell and name the Bundesländer you want covered, or the whole country. Nexfield works through all 56 sub-sectors of your unit and returns only companies that are probable buyers, never your competitors. Each row comes with region, city, sub-sector, company size, a priority rating and one sentence explaining why the company belongs on your list.