NUTS-3 ES512 · Spain
Population
830,4292025
GDP
€29,157M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
8.4%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
76.4%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
5,930.8 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
ES512 · SI041
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Girona (Opportunity 68). Runner-up: Osrednjeslovenska (63). Contrarian pick: Osrednjeslovenska — leads the set on Economic base (EU pctl 92).
Strengths
Economic base (92) · Talent & skills (82)
Red flags
Air quality (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Girona
Its weakest dimension is Labour market (EU pctl 31) — Osrednjeslovenska may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Osrednjeslovenska · Manufacturing → Osrednjeslovenska · Office → Girona · Residential → Osrednjeslovenska.
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
68.2
63.2
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
44.3
49.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
58.5
52.1
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
52.5
10.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
53.0
51.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
76.8
81.8
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
81.4
73.6
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
7.0% 5y
3.8% 5y
Population
1.3% 5y
0.5% 5y
Unemployment rate
7.8% 5y
4.4% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€35,111
€47,273
Population density
140 /km²
244 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€26,607M
€23,836M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€725M
€118M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,516M
€4,303M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4,080M
€3,346M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,625M
€1,194M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€8,323M
€6,691M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€19,900
€17,400
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
40,200 PPS
54,100 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€35,800
€47,500
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€57,689M
€7,464M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€9,484M
€1,358M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€147,909M
€20,182M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
—
€1,219M
GVA — information & communication (J)
—
€1,867M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€6,596M
€6,674M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€4,823M
€4,857M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€27,668M
€21,717M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€79,614
€72,418
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€6,735M
€5,512M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
393,600
390,390
Self-employed persons
61,500
64,840
Employment in manufacturing (C)
58,000
47,880
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
77.4%
76.8%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
19.1%
10.8%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
8.4%
3.6%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
434,200
288,400
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
67,916
71,731
Enterprise births
6,157
7,746
Enterprise deaths
5,177
4,335
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.1%
5.4%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.9%
2.6%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
6.6%
7.9%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.5%
2.6%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
46.9%
39.7%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
57.5%
45.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
16.2%
25.4%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
28.1%
29.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
8.8%
10.9%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
98.5%
94.8%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
24,474,095
3,164,426
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
450 /1k
582 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
25,266 kt
15,879 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,036
720
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
46 km/1000km²
38 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
125
126
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
19
19
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
4
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
553,202
370,392
Population aged 65+
159,287
112,777
Population aged under 15
117,940
86,306
Median age of population
44.2 yrs
43.1 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
28.8%
30.4%
Crude rate of total population change
11.3 /1k
7.3 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
12.5 /1k
7.4 /1k
Crude birth rate
7.0 /1k
8.2 /1k
Crude death rate
8.2 /1k
8.3 /1k
Live births
5,758
4,646
Deaths
6,731
4,737
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
50.1%
53.7%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.19
1.39
Population density (persons per km²)
140 /km²
244 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
865,193
559,093
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
21.3%
13.1%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
84.3 yrs
83.2 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.3%
12.2%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
360 /100k
464 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
806 /100k
931 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
208 /100k
287 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.1 /100k
0.7 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
146 /100k
27.8 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
524 /100k
557 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
846 /100k
2,186 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
32 /M
31 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.14
1.26
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.84
0.74
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.96
0.92
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.78
0.75
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.16
0.77
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.106/kWh
€0.132/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.048/kWh
€0.051/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
101 m
299 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
54 days/yr
18 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
14 days/yr
82 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
7 days/yr
18 days/yr