NUTS-3 ITI42 · Italy
Population
149,7662025
GDP
€3,814M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
5.5%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
69.3%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
2,756.8 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
ITI42 · DEB3C
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Bad Dürkheim (Opportunity 52). Runner-up: Rieti (43). Contrarian pick: Rieti — leads the set on Digital readiness (EU pctl 68).
#2Rieti
Strengths
Digital readiness (68) · Cost advantage (60)
Red flags
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Long-run slide: down 19 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
Why you might not pick Bad Dürkheim
Its weakest dimension is Demographic outlook (EU pctl 16) — Rieti may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Bad Dürkheim · Manufacturing → Bad Dürkheim · Office → Rieti · Residential → Bad Dürkheim.
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
43.1
51.7
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
46.5
76.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
53.7
62.7
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
57.7
59.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
40.5
57.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
48.6
39.2
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.2% 5y
0.2% 5y
Population
0.4% 5y
0.2% 5y
Unemployment rate
3.3% 5y
10.8% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€25,464
€26,934
Population density
54 /km²
226 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 88 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€3,426M
€3,305M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€164M
€181M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€354M
€523M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€274M
€423M
GVA — construction (F)
€294M
€201M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€662M
€671M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€22,800
€27,700
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
26,300 PPS
24,000 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€25,400
€27,000
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€50,148M
€20,699M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€4,606M
€4,472M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€95,178M
€49,098M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€558M
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GVA — information & communication (J)
€42M
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GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€934M
€909M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,017M
€820M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€3,466M
€3,074M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€74,113
€77,896
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€805M
€778M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
52,600
48,660
Self-employed persons
14,300
6,240
Employment in manufacturing (C)
3,800
5,190
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
68.0%
81.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
21.3%
6.4%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
5.5%
4.0%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
65,300
69,500
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
9,584
5,223
Enterprise births
778
425
Enterprise deaths
565
477
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.7%
3.1%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.8%
5.3%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
7.9%
6.4%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.7%
2.1%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
28.5%
36.8%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
37.4%
41.9%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
10.6%
10.1%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
23.0%
25.1%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
6.3%
9.8%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
96.3%
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Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
198,989
731,177
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
701 /1k
621 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
1,426 kt
3,109 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,731
669
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
29 km/1000km²
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Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,156
498
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
74
70
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)
93,218
81,354
Population aged 65+
41,200
35,029
Population aged under 15
15,348
17,946
Median age of population
51.2 yrs
50.4 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
44.2%
43.1%
Crude rate of total population change
-1.5 /1k
0.8 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.2 /1k
6.5 /1k
Crude birth rate
5.5 /1k
7.2 /1k
Crude death rate
13.2 /1k
12.9 /1k
Live births
821
966
Deaths
1,974
1,726
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
60.7%
65.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.11
1.41
Population density (persons per km²)
55 /km²
226 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
95,221
111,387
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
20.7%
23.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
83.6 yrs
81.2 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
17.9%
16.8%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
350 /100k
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Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
907 /100k
1,015 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
226 /100k
231 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.7 /100k
0.0 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
8.6 /100k
22.4 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
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188 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
578 /100k
698 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
56 /M
25 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.72
1.78
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.60
1.56
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
1.58
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
1.82
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.41
0.53
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.159/kWh
€0.161/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.048/kWh
€0.055/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
572 m
307 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
25 days/yr
11 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
53 days/yr
58 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
18 days/yr
3 days/yr