NUTS-3 AT342 · Austria
Population
316,7552025
GDP
€16,220M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4.3%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
79.9%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
742.5 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
AT342 · CH057
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Thurgau (Opportunity 78). Runner-up: Rheintal-Bodenseegebiet (62). Contrarian pick: Rheintal-Bodenseegebiet — leads the set on Economic base (EU pctl 85).
Strengths
Demographic outlook (89) · Economic base (85)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Thurgau
Its weakest dimension is Growth momentum (EU pctl 64) — Rheintal-Bodenseegebiet may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Thurgau leads under all four archetype mandates — the recommendation is weight-stable.
Phase-2 diligence checklist
- Site-level grid connection capacity and power pricing (beyond country-grain energy data)
- Local incentives, tax regimes and permitting timelines
- Workforce depth for your specific roles (the talent pillar is a proxy)
- Real-estate availability, rents and land — public pan-EU data stops at the Nordics
This is a mandate-neutral read. To weight the pillars to your thesis, run these regions through the Site Screener — it ranks all 1,211 regions under your weights and exports the full PDF. First-pass macro screening, not investment advice.
Composite intelligence · 0–100 EU-percentile scores
Opportunity Indexscale + growth + access + structure
62.3
77.7
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
62.5
82.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
63.0
77.8
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
28.5
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
66.7
74.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
47.3
71.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
31.2
64.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
1.8% 5y
3.0% 5y
Population
0.8% 5y
1.4% 5y
Unemployment rate
3.6% 5y
7.2% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€51,208
€69,941
Population density
427 /km²
301 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 88 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€14,584M
€19,677M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€67M
€377M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,385M
€5,888M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,992M
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GVA — construction (F)
€1,078M
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GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,698M
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Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€31,000
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GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
45,800 PPS
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GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€51,700
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Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€5,346M
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Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,306M
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Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€10,571M
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GVA — information & communication (J)
—
€3,816M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,432M
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GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,923M
€1,341M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€12,683M
€19,382M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€111,887
€149,136
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€3,967M
€6,180M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
156,900
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Self-employed persons
16,300
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Employment in manufacturing (C)
37,700
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Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
80.4%
86.0%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
—
5.4%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
4.3%
3.3%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
168,100
174,800
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
19,578
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Enterprise births
1,094
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Enterprise deaths
978
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3-year enterprise survival rate
2.1%
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Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.9%
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Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
3.2%
4.5%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.3%
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Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
32.4%
40.8%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
36.6%
44.4%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
14.3%
24.4%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
20.6%
23.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
8.6%
10.6%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
96.8%
100.0%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,511,087
605,569
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
543 /1k
589 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
8,263 kt
11,677 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,313
1,500
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
415
501
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
25 km/1000km²
23 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
37
30
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
3
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
208,042
194,566
Population aged 65+
59,090
58,757
Population aged under 15
49,623
46,186
Median age of population
42.5 yrs
43.2 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
28.4%
30.2%
Crude rate of total population change
5.7 /1k
14.4 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.0 /1k
13.0 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.2 /1k
9.0 /1k
Crude death rate
8.5 /1k
7.6 /1k
Live births
2,911
2,675
Deaths
2,681
2,246
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
52.3%
53.9%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.45
1.42
Population density (persons per km²)
466 /km²
346 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
384,793
359,721
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
21.6%
16.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.9 yrs
83.9 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
19.6%
13.4%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
484 /100k
487 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
863 /100k
861 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
196 /100k
192 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.3 /100k
0.3 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
25.1 /100k
12.2 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
271 /100k
458 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
807 /100k
1,373 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
17 /M
34 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.74
2.03
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.40
1.76
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.64
1.78
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.37
2.09
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.60
1.03
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.156/kWh
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Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.049/kWh
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Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
1,007 m
442 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
6 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
152 days/yr
79 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
22 days/yr
10 days/yr