NUTS-3 FR103 · France
Population
1,504,5652025
GDP
€69,260M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
8.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
76.5%2025
Active firms
307,6922026
Cadastral parcels
668,9352026
Area
2,301.2 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
FR103 · FRG01
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Yvelines (Opportunity 73). Runner-up: Loire-Atlantique (62). Contrarian pick: Loire-Atlantique — leads the set on Demographic outlook (EU pctl 94).
#1Yvelines
Strengths
Talent & skills (95) · Energy cost (88)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Yvelines
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%); Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Freight intensity (EU pctl 7) — Loire-Atlantique may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Loire-Atlantique · Manufacturing → Loire-Atlantique · Office → Yvelines · Residential → Loire-Atlantique.
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
73.2
61.9
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
65.5
69.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
69.2
55.8
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
75.0
75.7
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
75.0
32.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
94.5
72.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
31.6
51.6
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.1% 5y
2.0% 5y
Population
0.7% 5y
0.9% 5y
Unemployment rate
1.4% 5y
0.9% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€46,033
€42,396
Population density
654 /km²
218 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
445
1,040
Firms per 1k pop
205
213
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€61,960M
€57,247M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€52M
€568M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€9,087M
€7,262M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€7,889M
€5,651M
GVA — construction (F)
€3,917M
€3,672M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€12,454M
€13,266M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€29,600
€23,300
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
43,200 PPS
39,100 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€46,900
€42,500
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€192,308M
€32,580M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€9,999M
€4,197M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€456,581M
€79,082M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€12,263M
€7,791M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€3,991M
€4,589M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€23,917M
€18,985M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€12,534M
€13,495M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€63,809M
€57,518M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€118,395
€89,045
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€15,637M
€14,348M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
596,200
733,000
Self-employed persons
55,000
75,600
Employment in manufacturing (C)
64,200
74,700
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
76.6%
77.1%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
21.2%
16.1%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
8.8%
6.6%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
729,700
732,200
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
107,863
109,013
Enterprise births
16,577
15,002
Enterprise deaths
13,406
11,547
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.9%
6.9%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.9%
1.3%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
9.1%
3.5%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
3.0%
1.1%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
58.6%
42.2%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
72.7%
54.9%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
18.0%
16.8%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
40.1%
26.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
14.1%
8.4%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
96.2%
94.3%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,244,255
8,335,347
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
433 /1k
611 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
13,895 kt
37,222 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
7,124
6,383
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
52 km/1000km²
23 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
474
423
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
35
226
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
4
0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
954,362
949,836
Population aged 65+
264,743
301,089
Population aged under 15
285,460
259,674
Median age of population
40.1 yrs
40.9 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
27.7%
31.7%
Crude rate of total population change
6.3 /1k
7.5 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
1.7 /1k
6.1 /1k
Crude birth rate
11.3 /1k
9.7 /1k
Crude death rate
6.7 /1k
8.3 /1k
Live births
17,002
14,582
Deaths
10,058
12,467
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
57.7%
59.0%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.81
1.54
Population density (persons per km²)
660 /km²
220 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
1,449,606
1,828,155
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
20.9%
15.7%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
84.6 yrs
83.5 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
16.9%
11.5%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
473 /100k
450 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
761 /100k
799 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
192 /100k
223 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.7 /100k
0.9 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
55.3 /100k
78.2 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
353 /100k
609 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,563 /100k
2,104 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
21 /M
47 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.46
1.46
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.27
1.27
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.02
1.02
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.39
1.39
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.02
0.02
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.107/kWh
€0.107/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.053/kWh
€0.053/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
106 m
86 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
8 days/yr
9 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
33 days/yr
13 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
4 days/yr