NUTS-3 ITH42 · Italy
Population
516,3232025
GDP
€19,508M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4.6%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
74.7%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
4,888.9 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
ITH42 · NL225
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Achterhoek (Opportunity 76). Runner-up: Udine (51). Contrarian pick: Udine — leads the set on Industrial base (EU pctl 72).
Strengths
Digital readiness (94) · Labour market (92)
Red flags
Flood: 21% of population in the 100-year floodplain
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Strengths
Industrial base (72) · Economic base (71)
Red flags
Long-run slide: down 20 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
Why you might not pick Achterhoek
Flood: 21% of population in the 100-year floodplain. Its weakest dimension is Demographic outlook (EU pctl 37) — Udine may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Achterhoek leads under all four archetype mandates — the recommendation is weight-stable.
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
51.2
76.4
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
50.5
74.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
45.1
67.2
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
22.3
68.5
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
38.7
61.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
29.5
89.8
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
35.6
63.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.6% 5y
2.1% 5y
Population
0.4% 5y
0.3% 5y
Unemployment rate
7.8% 5y
0.6% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€37,783
€44,917
Population density
106 /km²
261 /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)
€17,525M
€16,445M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€246M
€576M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,371M
€3,581M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4,025M
€3,395M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,024M
€971M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,589M
€3,489M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€23,800
€26,500
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
39,100 PPS
38,600 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€37,700
€45,000
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€10,531M
€23,257M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€2,200M
€2,035M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€18,713M
€50,437M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,067M
€1,445M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€252M
€179M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€4,626M
€3,144M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,667M
€3,584M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€17,719M
€15,159M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€83,368
€90,812
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€4,630M
€4,054M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
240,800
211,000
Self-employed persons
53,600
39,900
Employment in manufacturing (C)
45,500
28,500
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
72.8%
86.2%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
12.9%
7.6%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
4.6%
3.4%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
238,100
222,500
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
39,420
44,580
Enterprise births
2,553
3,295
Enterprise deaths
2,297
1,984
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.5%
5.8%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.7%
—
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
3.9%
4.7%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.6%
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Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
24.1%
44.1%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
35.2%
53.8%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
13.7%
25.7%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
18.1%
30.0%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
4.1%
12.8%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
96.3%
99.2%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
6,135,131
4,158,141
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
695 /1k
523 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
14,246 kt
12,640 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
6
1,033
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1
253
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
35 km/1000km²
81 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
39
53
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
5
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
316,550
246,554
Population aged 65+
145,679
106,383
Population aged under 15
54,094
55,020
Median age of population
52.0 yrs
49.3 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
46.0%
43.1%
Crude rate of total population change
-1.6 /1k
2.9 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.1 /1k
6.6 /1k
Crude birth rate
5.5 /1k
7.9 /1k
Crude death rate
12.2 /1k
11.6 /1k
Live births
2,851
3,219
Deaths
6,303
4,725
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
63.1%
65.5%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.16
1.59
Population density (persons per km²)
109 /km²
262 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
415,885
354,761
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
11.6%
14.0%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
84.2 yrs
81.9 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
9.1%
12.1%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
312 /100k
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Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
899 /100k
1,014 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
216 /100k
249 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
—
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
19.9 /100k
10.8 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
—
122 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
895 /100k
703 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
61 /M
50 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.72
1.77
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.60
1.72
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
1.73
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
1.92
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.41
0.63
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.159/kWh
€0.142/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.048/kWh
€0.039/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
153 m
17 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
18 days/yr
6 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
54 days/yr
41 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
28 days/yr
3 days/yr