Dąbrowa Górnicza is best depicted as an industrial city. Most of the companies do business in the field of trading and repair-work – 4514, in all.  1061 companies (all large entities, generating a nett profit) are industrial, 1360 of which are in the construction sector, and 2422 are involved in property sales and renting, or services ancillary to business activities. Only a relatively small number of companies – 379 - operates in the hotel and restaurant sector. By way of comparison, in the competitor city of Sosnowiec, there are only 737 businesses, and in the city of Tychy, with a similar population to Dąbrowa’s, only 407.

Dąbrowa Górnicza attracts investors from a variety of industrial sectors. There is Poland’s largest steelworks, ArcelorMittal Poland, and one of Europe’s largest coking plants, Przyjaźń Sp. z o.o. Over the space of only a couple of years, many manufacturing and services plants were built within the special economic sub-zone located in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

Dąbrowa Górnicza’s economy:

Industrial production sold: PLN 7 557,9 mln
Industrial production sold: PLN 58 789 per capita

Metalled public roads, in km:

County        89,7 km
Commune    396,6 km

Dominant industries:
 
 automotive
 construction
 business-related services, property services
 engineering
 steel
 mining and coking

The region is the most attractive area for capital investment in Poland: foreign companies have invested $14 billion here over the past 7 years. This is compared with (in $ billions):

0∙9 Upper Silesian Province
0∙8 Lower Silesian Province
0∙7 Mazowiecka Province
0∙4 Małopolska Province
0∙1 Łódź Province


It takes second place in the country for its share in foreign trade
The whole region takes second place in the country as the location for foreign investment

Among the 500 largest Polish exporters, there are 50 companies from Silesia, including 9 from Dąbrowa Górnicza (source: the Finance Ministry):

 Saint Gobain Securit Hanglas Polska - ranks 94th
 Brembo Poland Sp.z o.o. - ranks 112th
 Huta Bankowa Sp. z o.o. - ranks 239th
 Saint Gobain Glass Polska Sp. z o.o. - ranks 301st
 Koksownia Przyjaźń Sp. o.o. - ranks 308th
 Arcelor Mittal Poland SA - ranks 319th
 Ficomirrors Polska - ranks 413th
 Stalprofil SA - ranks 445th
 Saia Burgess Poland - ranks 470th

Rzeczpospolita KPMG’s Top 500 list of 29.04.2008 portrays Dąbrowa companies as a pillar of the Polish economy:

- Koksownia Przyjaźń Sp. o.o.
- Magneti Marelli Group in Poland
- ThyssenKrupp Energostal SA
- DHL Express sp. z o.o.
- KEM Group Dąbrowa Górnicza
- Stalprofil SA
- Pronox Technology SA
- Huta Bankowa Sp. z o.o.
- ARCELORMITTAL Service Sp. z o.o.

The Przyjaźń coking plant is ranked among the 25 biggest exporters in Poland, with a 76∙9% share of exports out of total export sales of PLN 1440∙3m, in 2008.

Company structure (source, GUS):

Upper Silesian Province:

Total companies 442 046,
5 376 of which have foreign share capital

Upper Silesian conurbation:
 
67% of the region’s GDP
 9% of the country’s GDP
 193,300 companies operating here

Dąbrowa Górnicza:

Total companies 12 204,
119 of which have foreign share capital

Company structure (source, PKD [Polish Classification of Activities]) (diagram)

Dąbrowa Górnicza:
 
 industrial processes         22∙33%
 trade and transport services        45∙57%
 business-related institutions    14∙96%
 hotels and restaurants        3∙18%
 other            13∙96%       

The main branches of the city’s economy:
 
 steelmaking
 production of coke and building materials
 production of glass and plastics
 automotive industry
 shipping

Capital investment expenditure in companies, per capita:

Katowice        PLN 5 894   
Dąbrowa Górnicza    PLN 10 646


Gross value of fixed assets per capita:

Katowice        PLN 73,129
Dąbrowa Górnicza    PLN 84,259



Budget revenue and expenditure of counties, and cities holding the rights of counties, per capita, in 2008:

Katowice        4 157,22 PLN
Dąbrowa Górnicza    3 536,05 PLN