NUTS-3 NL114 · Netherlands
Population
139,1912025
GDP
€4,856M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4.5%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
80.4%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
769.9 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
NL114 · NL128
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Zuidwest-Friesland (Opportunity 59). Runner-up: Oost-Groningen (50). Contrarian pick: Oost-Groningen — leads the set on Talent & skills (EU pctl 92).
Why you might not pick Zuidwest-Friesland
Its weakest dimension is Cost advantage (EU pctl 49) — Oost-Groningen may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Zuidwest-Friesland 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
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
50.4
59.2
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
52.5
51.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
59.3
62.1
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
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86.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
67.0
54.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
91.5
79.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
46.2
60.6
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
0.6% 5y
0.2% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€34,888
€42,115
Population density
181 /km²
98 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 70 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€4,358M
€5,396M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€216M
€246M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€962M
€1,239M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€635M
€984M
GVA — construction (F)
€297M
€292M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€685M
€999M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€24,100
€24,800
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
30,200 PPS
36,300 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€35,200
€42,300
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€6,193M
€6,262M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€504M
€616M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€14,058M
€13,205M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€353M
€475M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€73M
€47M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€820M
€1,043M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,324M
€1,134M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
59,000
69,500
Self-employed persons
11,400
17,000
Employment in manufacturing (C)
5,700
8,400
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
83.1%
85.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
9.7%
7.6%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
11,850
17,417
Enterprise births
946
1,226
Enterprise deaths
594
742
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.1%
5.5%
Innovation & R&D
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.3%
2.6%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
45.0%
38.6%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
60.3%
48.1%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
26.8%
24.1%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
31.2%
27.6%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
11.7%
10.5%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
99.5%
99.6%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
565,236
2,039,120
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
507 /1k
545 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
5,235 kt
5,446 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
672
659
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
483
462
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
46 km/1000km²
63 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
31
71
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
2
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
84,125
85,773
Population aged 65+
36,050
35,764
Population aged under 15
19,016
21,232
Median age of population
48.7 yrs
47.7 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
42.9%
41.7%
Crude rate of total population change
9.2 /1k
2.9 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
14.8 /1k
5.2 /1k
Crude birth rate
7.7 /1k
8.4 /1k
Crude death rate
13.3 /1k
10.7 /1k
Live births
1,062
1,202
Deaths
1,837
1,524
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
65.5%
66.4%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.53
1.72
Population density (persons per km²)
186 /km²
162 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
22.4%
14.9%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
80.7 yrs
81.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
18.6%
14.4%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,078 /100k
1,018 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
264 /100k
239 /100k
Safety & crime
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
40 /M
53 /M
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.142/kWh
€0.142/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.039/kWh
€0.039/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
7 m
-2 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
3 days/yr
2 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
39 days/yr
22 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
4 days/yr