NUTS-3 ES514 · Spain
Population
875,5302025
GDP
€29,472M2023
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
6,298.6 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
ES514 · ITF31
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Tarragona (Opportunity 62). Runner-up: Caserta (51). Contrarian pick: Caserta — leads the set on Demographic outlook (EU pctl 78).
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Strengths
Demographic outlook (78) · Cost advantage (73)
Red flags
Economic base (EU bottom 15%)
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Talent & skills (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Air quality (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Tarragona
Its weakest dimension is Labour market (EU pctl 31) — Caserta may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Tarragona 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
62.1
50.9
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
46.3
50.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
58.5
19.7
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
54.0
6.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
40.0
41.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
76.8
11.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
69.0
59.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
5.3% 5y
3.3% 5y
Population
1.4% 5y
0.1% 5y
Unemployment rate
10.9% 5y
2.7% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€33,661
€21,436
Population density
139 /km²
343 /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)
€26,894M
€17,494M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€407M
€748M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€6,463M
€2,325M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4,742M
€1,944M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,398M
€1,588M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€6,861M
€4,033M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€19,900
€16,200
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
38,700 PPS
22,300 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€34,500
€21,500
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€57,689M
€28,842M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€9,484M
€3,238M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€147,909M
€50,450M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
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€2,230M
GVA — information & communication (J)
—
€151M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€6,993M
€4,226M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€4,773M
€4,575M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€27,966M
€18,034M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€89,024
€69,408
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€6,808M
€4,288M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
355,800
287,400
Self-employed persons
53,600
71,500
Employment in manufacturing (C)
45,800
31,600
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
77.4%
54.4%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
19.1%
40.1%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
8.4%
13.9%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
453,300
339,800
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
57,280
54,056
Enterprise births
5,197
5,551
Enterprise deaths
4,637
3,144
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.2%
5.2%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.9%
1.2%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
6.6%
3.4%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.5%
1.1%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
46.9%
18.7%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
57.5%
27.1%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
16.2%
8.6%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
28.1%
16.8%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
8.8%
3.8%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
98.5%
90.9%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
19,697,521
1,453,756
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
450 /1k
667 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
33,553 kt
11,355 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,345
54
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
46 km/1000km²
37 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
154
6
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
47
39
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
577,580
603,868
Population aged 65+
176,264
179,524
Population aged under 15
121,686
125,059
Median age of population
45.2 yrs
44.9 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
30.5%
29.7%
Crude rate of total population change
15.9 /1k
2.1 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
18.1 /1k
4.0 /1k
Crude birth rate
6.7 /1k
7.7 /1k
Crude death rate
8.9 /1k
9.6 /1k
Live births
5,782
7,029
Deaths
7,749
8,709
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
51.6%
50.4%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.18
1.28
Population density (persons per km²)
139 /km²
344 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
731,160
774,935
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
21.3%
41.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
84.3 yrs
82.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.3%
35.6%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
360 /100k
257 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
806 /100k
1,058 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
208 /100k
238 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.7 /100k
1.2 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
144 /100k
43.7 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
479 /100k
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Thefts per 100k inhabitants
581 /100k
1,393 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
32 /M
47 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.14
0.72
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.84
0.60
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.96
0.57
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.78
0.57
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.16
0.41
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.106/kWh
€0.159/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.048/kWh
€0.048/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
21 m
158 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
85 days/yr
51 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
11 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
17 days/yr