NUTS-3 ITC18 · Italy
Population
407,2022025
GDP
€14,427M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
6%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
74.3%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
—
Area
3,558.4 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
ITC18 · ES415
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Alessandria (Opportunity 56). Runner-up: Salamanca (52). Contrarian pick: Salamanca — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 95).
Strengths
Energy cost (95) · Air quality (84)
Red flags
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%)
Connectivity (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Alessandria
Its weakest dimension is Talent & skills (EU pctl 18) — Salamanca may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Alessandria · Manufacturing → Alessandria · Office → Salamanca · Residential → Salamanca.
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
55.8
51.7
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
39.5
41.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
42.2
57.3
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
19.7
83.7
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
49.0
8.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
18.0
60.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
40.8
71.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
3.5% 5y
6.0% 5y
Population
0.5% 5y
0.1% 5y
Unemployment rate
9.0% 5y
7.9% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€35,428
€29,242
Population density
114 /km²
27 /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)
€12,960M
€8,764M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€196M
€1,069M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,789M
€1,026M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,562M
€770M
GVA — construction (F)
€909M
€608M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,730M
€2,052M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€24,400
€18,500
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
36,800 PPS
32,900 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€35,500
€29,300
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€44,851M
€13,527M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€10,323M
€2,707M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€61,911M
€32,274M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,701M
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GVA — information & communication (J)
€152M
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GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,191M
€1,753M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,144M
€2,257M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€13,218M
€8,816M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€85,652
€72,250
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€4,131M
€2,108M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
171,100
143,000
Self-employed persons
40,200
24,200
Employment in manufacturing (C)
35,200
11,500
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
73.5%
75.7%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
19.3%
24.7%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
6.0%
8.6%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
186,700
155,200
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
29,421
21,765
Enterprise births
2,052
1,490
Enterprise deaths
1,644
1,480
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.5%
3.5%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.1%
1.4%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
3.6%
3.3%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.6%
1.1%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
21.2%
42.1%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
29.3%
52.3%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
10.0%
15.3%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
16.0%
22.8%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
5.0%
7.3%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
93.9%
96.0%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
845,432
2,400,850
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
723 /1k
601 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
16,949 kt
9,849 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
118
3
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
36 km/1000km²
26 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
29
1
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
47
210
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)
248,089
201,176
Population aged 65+
117,177
93,210
Population aged under 15
41,936
34,060
Median age of population
52.3 yrs
51.4 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
47.2%
46.3%
Crude rate of total population change
2.0 /1k
2.7 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
11.3 /1k
9.6 /1k
Crude birth rate
5.1 /1k
5.1 /1k
Crude death rate
14.4 /1k
11.9 /1k
Live births
2,086
1,670
Deaths
5,878
3,919
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
64.1%
63.3%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.10
1.01
Population density (persons per km²)
115 /km²
27 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
302,995
188,527
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
16.9%
24.1%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
83.7 yrs
84.8 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.0%
19.8%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
353 /100k
343 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
892 /100k
749 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
228 /100k
212 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.7 /100k
0.0 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
26.1 /100k
39.7 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
—
189 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,037 /100k
123 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
40 /M
68 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.72
1.14
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.60
0.84
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
0.96
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
0.78
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.41
0.16
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.159/kWh
€0.106/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.048/kWh
€0.048/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
132 m
892 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
52 days/yr
37 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
51 days/yr
35 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
10 days/yr
3 days/yr