NUTS-3 ITH20 · Italy
Population
546,5732025
GDP
€25,457M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
2.2%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
77.6%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
6,222.4 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
ITH20 · ES212
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Trento (Opportunity 65). Runner-up: Gipuzkoa (61). Contrarian pick: Gipuzkoa — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 95).
Why you might not pick Trento
Its weakest dimension is Governance (EU pctl 20) — Gipuzkoa may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Trento · Manufacturing → Gipuzkoa · Office → Gipuzkoa · Residential → Trento.
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
65.0
60.8
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
59.5
43.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
54.4
65.1
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
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55.7
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
40.3
31.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
28.0
88.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
56.4
54.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.7% 5y
3.9% 5y
Population
0.0% 5y
0.2% 5y
Unemployment rate
16.1% 5y
1.1% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€46,575
€38,775
Population density
88 /km²
370 /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)
€22,869M
€25,941M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€950M
€157M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,147M
€6,853M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,277M
€6,546M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,459M
€1,437M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€5,155M
€5,826M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€23,800
€24,200
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
48,500 PPS
43,800 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€46,800
€39,000
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€6,222M
€16,022M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€888M
€3,378M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€8,950M
€43,785M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,687M
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GVA — information & communication (J)
€481M
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GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€6,507M
€5,964M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€4,651M
€5,706M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€22,581M
€26,570M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€93,994
€83,507
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€6,319M
€5,956M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
274,000
362,400
Self-employed persons
62,000
43,100
Employment in manufacturing (C)
35,400
79,300
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
73.6%
74.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
9.6%
18.6%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
2.2%
7.3%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
259,800
351,500
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
42,621
49,652
Enterprise births
2,980
3,819
Enterprise deaths
2,275
3,559
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.3%
4.3%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.6%
2.4%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
3.3%
4.7%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
2.0%
2.2%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
23.9%
58.2%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
33.5%
68.6%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
14.9%
19.8%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
17.2%
32.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
3.8%
10.6%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
97.0%
97.5%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
22,669,069
4,525,954
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
1,610 /1k
478 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
19,859 kt
22,679 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,074
69
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
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70 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
197
9
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
80
60
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)
344,521
465,410
Population aged 65+
131,662
176,195
Population aged under 15
70,390
91,544
Median age of population
48.0 yrs
47.9 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
38.2%
37.9%
Crude rate of total population change
2.6 /1k
4.7 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.3 /1k
8.6 /1k
Crude birth rate
6.9 /1k
6.1 /1k
Crude death rate
9.6 /1k
10.0 /1k
Live births
3,748
4,430
Deaths
5,221
7,327
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
58.6%
57.5%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.27
1.15
Population density (persons per km²)
89 /km²
371 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
566,553
705,837
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
10.8%
14.7%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
85.0 yrs
84.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
8.8%
9.3%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
359 /100k
327 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
779 /100k
779 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
199 /100k
216 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
0.4 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
16.8 /100k
72.6 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
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384 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
775 /100k
378 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
70 /M
21 /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)
192 m
395 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
28 days/yr
12 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
23 days/yr
16 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
13 days/yr
14 days/yr