NUTS-3 FRY40 · France
Population
904,1802025
GDP
€24,457M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
16.3%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
59.4%2025
Active firms
182,0992026
Cadastral parcels
431,6632026
Area
2,505.7 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
FRY40 · SK042
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: La Réunion (Opportunity 50). Runner-up: Košický kraj (46). Contrarian pick: Košický kraj — leads the set on Cost advantage (EU pctl 87).
Strengths
Energy cost (88) · Air quality (83)
Red flags
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick La Réunion
Labour market (EU bottom 15%); Industrial base (EU bottom 15%); Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Digital readiness (EU pctl 1) — Košický kraj may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → La Réunion · Manufacturing → Košický kraj · Office → La Réunion · Residential → La Réunion.
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
50.4
45.8
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
49.5
36.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
39.1
20.7
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
83.3
22.7
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
61.7
20.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
29.3
27.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
66.6
65.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.8% 5y
2.2% 5y
Population
0.9% 5y
0.6% 5y
Unemployment rate
1.2% 5y
1.8% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€27,049
€19,912
Population density
361 /km²
116 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
477
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
201
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€22,940M
€14,031M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€456M
€246M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,642M
€2,997M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,224M
€2,895M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,265M
€1,384M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€4,185M
€3,850M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€19,200
€11,300
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
25,400 PPS
24,800 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€27,500
€19,800
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€4,844M
€4,308M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€291M
€826M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€13,800M
€10,472M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€3,530M
€1,675M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€684M
€1,195M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€5,818M
€3,233M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€9,574M
€2,321M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€22,218M
€12,680M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€72,883
€55,778
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€4,923M
€2,584M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
342,000
292,390
Self-employed persons
47,500
40,070
Employment in manufacturing (C)
17,600
51,010
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
64.2%
73.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
33.9%
26.3%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
16.3%
9.5%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
369,200
375,700
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
60,822
68,160
Enterprise births
9,731
8,770
Enterprise deaths
6,741
9,935
3-year enterprise survival rate
7.4%
6.0%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
—
0.6%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
1.3%
4.7%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
—
0.5%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
26.8%
26.7%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
31.6%
34.0%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
12.1%
11.3%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
20.2%
18.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
4.9%
4.9%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
87.3%
91.9%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,626,678
867,090
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
483 /1k
419 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
—
19,341 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
9,037
11
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
0 km/1000km²
10 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,000
1
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
24
72
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
575,192
508,542
Population aged 65+
142,316
136,052
Population aged under 15
186,672
134,205
Median age of population
39.4 yrs
41.1 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
24.7%
26.8%
Crude rate of total population change
7.3 /1k
-0.4 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.6 /1k
-0.9 /1k
Crude birth rate
13.1 /1k
10.1 /1k
Crude death rate
6.5 /1k
9.6 /1k
Live births
11,818
7,851
Deaths
5,832
7,446
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
57.2%
53.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
2.11
1.67
Population density (persons per km²)
364 /km²
116 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
879,651
710,953
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
42.3%
26.3%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.9 yrs
78.2 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
36.4%
20.4%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
430 /100k
616 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
937 /100k
1,695 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
195 /100k
265 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.6 /100k
1.5 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
62.9 /100k
10.5 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
151 /100k
95.4 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,014 /100k
225 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
44 /M
34 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.46
0.80
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.27
0.73
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.02
0.59
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.39
0.38
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.02
0.53
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.107/kWh
€0.160/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.053/kWh
€0.063/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
1,781 m
194 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
18 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
96 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
26 days/yr
4 days/yr