NUTS-3 ITH35 · Italy
Population
834,3062025
GDP
€32,374M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.4%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
74.7%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
2,007.6 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
ITH35 · ITI14
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Firenze (Opportunity 61). Runner-up: Venezia (56). Contrarian pick: Venezia — leads the set on Freight intensity (EU pctl 72).
#1Firenze
Strengths
Economic base (87) · Demographic outlook (85)
Red flags
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Flood: 25% of population in the 100-year floodplain
#2Venezia
Strengths
Demographic outlook (76) · Economic base (73)
Red flags
Flood: 26% of population in the 100-year floodplain
Long-run slide: down 14 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
Why you might not pick Firenze
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%); Flood: 25% of population in the 100-year floodplain. Its weakest dimension is Freight intensity (EU pctl 10) — Venezia may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Venezia · Manufacturing → Venezia · Office → Firenze · Residential → Firenze.
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
- Flood defences, return-period design and insurance for flagged regions
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
56.0
60.8
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
39.8
33.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
42.5
48.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
54.7
71.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
27.3
23.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
42.4
46.8
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
4.2% 5y
4.1% 5y
Population
0.3% 5y
0.2% 5y
Unemployment rate
10.7% 5y
6.8% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€38,803
€46,675
Population density
416 /km²
281 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 87 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€29,083M
€41,430M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€409M
€295M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€5,425M
€8,390M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4,538M
€7,564M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,869M
€1,922M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€8,668M
€10,974M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€23,500
€23,000
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
40,200 PPS
48,400 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€38,700
€46,700
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€45,490M
€29,682M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€10,941M
€5,009M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€75,959M
€51,756M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€3,604M
€4,735M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€755M
€1,021M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€7,543M
€12,585M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€5,169M
€7,262M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€29,162M
€42,124M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€86,056
€88,307
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€7,583M
€9,963M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
385,800
530,800
Self-employed persons
83,100
117,500
Employment in manufacturing (C)
55,900
90,000
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
71.8%
73.7%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
13.7%
15.1%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
3.4%
4.3%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
386,500
472,500
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
67,239
95,086
Enterprise births
4,832
7,201
Enterprise deaths
3,710
5,468
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.4%
3.5%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.2%
1.4%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
3.2%
3.7%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.4%
1.5%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
21.8%
23.8%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
33.3%
30.8%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
13.3%
11.7%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
17.0%
17.4%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
5.0%
4.9%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
94.5%
96.6%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
38,555,987
15,659,580
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
680 /1k
744 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,717
5,912
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
32,451 kt
11,383 kt
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
206
598
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
40 km/1000km²
23 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
24
15
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
3
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
521,219
616,818
Population aged 65+
221,084
260,194
Population aged under 15
92,003
111,056
Median age of population
51.0 yrs
50.2 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
42.4%
42.2%
Crude rate of total population change
-1.3 /1k
-0.7 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
4.4 /1k
5.1 /1k
Crude birth rate
5.6 /1k
6.0 /1k
Crude death rate
11.4 /1k
11.8 /1k
Live births
4,710
5,921
Deaths
9,512
11,642
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
60.1%
60.2%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.15
1.13
Population density (persons per km²)
433 /km²
283 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
771,050
948,857
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
14.6%
18.1%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
84.6 yrs
84.2 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
12.4%
12.8%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
307 /100k
285 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
825 /100k
848 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
200 /100k
209 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
0.6 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
52.9 /100k
137 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,301 /100k
2,739 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
55 /M
51 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.72
0.72
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.60
0.60
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
0.57
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
0.57
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.41
0.41
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.159/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)
0 m
233 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
19 days/yr
42 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
21 days/yr
24 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
15 days/yr
14 days/yr