NUTS-3 NL321 · Netherlands
Population
388,7262025
GDP
€16,679M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
84.4%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
—
Area
1,520.1 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
NL321 · CZ052
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Kop van Noord-Holland (Opportunity 75). Runner-up: Královéhradecký kraj (52). Contrarian pick: Královéhradecký kraj — leads the set on Industrial base (EU pctl 89).
Why you might not pick Kop van Noord-Holland
Its weakest dimension is Industrial base (EU pctl 24) — Královéhradecký kraj may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Královéhradecký kraj · Manufacturing → Královéhradecký kraj · Office → Kop van Noord-Holland · Residential → Kop van Noord-Holland.
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
74.9
52.3
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
78.0
39.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
72.5
43.9
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
71.3
47.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
56.7
52.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
96.5
21.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
68.0
53.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
3.5% 5y
1.5% 5y
Population
0.6% 5y
0.2% 5y
Unemployment rate
0.5% 5y
4.9% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€42,906
€25,484
Population density
256 /km²
117 /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)
€14,968M
€12,932M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€1,029M
€459M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,105M
€4,496M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,672M
€3,919M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,066M
€650M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,026M
€2,288M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€28,000
€14,800
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
36,900 PPS
31,300 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€43,000
€25,500
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€41,901M
€8,892M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€3,039M
€1,856M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€104,822M
€16,475M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,384M
€1,521M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€125M
€360M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,967M
€2,502M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,749M
€2,537M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€14,299M
€11,051M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€90,834
€58,199
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€3,139M
€3,627M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
192,000
260,240
Self-employed persons
40,700
24,110
Employment in manufacturing (C)
14,000
80,400
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
86.4%
77.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
8.8%
12.2%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
3.8%
3.3%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
215,600
268,000
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
45,038
59,589
Enterprise births
3,771
4,586
Enterprise deaths
2,083
3,859
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.4%
4.3%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
—
1.2%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
6.8%
4.7%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
—
1.0%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
52.2%
23.2%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
62.6%
31.5%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
27.4%
9.8%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
36.5%
15.9%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
14.0%
6.2%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
99.2%
94.5%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
7,209,430
4,641,925
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
428 /1k
599 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
10,562 kt
21,955 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,116
2,547
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
108 km/1000km²
7 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
287
458
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
55
45
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)
240,192
346,214
Population aged 65+
91,323
126,020
Population aged under 15
57,211
83,689
Median age of population
45.6 yrs
45.5 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
38.0%
36.4%
Crude rate of total population change
5.6 /1k
-1.8 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.6 /1k
1.3 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.2 /1k
7.4 /1k
Crude death rate
10.2 /1k
10.6 /1k
Live births
3,569
4,142
Deaths
3,969
5,882
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
61.8%
60.6%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.64
1.39
Population density (persons per km²)
351 /km²
119 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
362,580
467,241
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
16.9%
12.1%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.1 yrs
80.4 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.8%
10.2%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
—
609 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
990 /100k
1,440 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
244 /100k
241 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
—
0.9 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
31.8 /100k
7.0 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
143 /100k
128 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
887 /100k
200 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
27 /M
44 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.77
1.20
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.72
1.33
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.73
1.14
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.92
0.80
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.63
1.00
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.142/kWh
€0.146/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.039/kWh
€0.055/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
-4 m
369 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
5 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
19 days/yr
95 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
3 days/yr