NUTS-3 NL32A · Netherlands
Population
237,3472025
GDP
€10,519M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
84.4%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
117 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
NL32A · NL365
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Oost-Zuid-Holland (Opportunity 76). Runner-up: Agglomeratie Haarlem (73). Contrarian pick: Agglomeratie Haarlem — leads the set on Talent & skills (EU pctl 97).
Strengths
Digital readiness (94) · Talent & skills (93)
Red flags
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Flood: 55% of population in the 100-year floodplain
Strengths
Talent & skills (97) · Labour market (95)
Red flags
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Oost-Zuid-Holland
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%); Flood: 55% of population in the 100-year floodplain. Its weakest dimension is Industrial base (EU pctl 14) — Agglomeratie Haarlem may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Oost-Zuid-Holland · Manufacturing → Oost-Zuid-Holland · Office → Agglomeratie Haarlem · Residential → Agglomeratie Haarlem.
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
73.0
76.2
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
65.0
89.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
69.1
69.6
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
29.0
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
73.0
73.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
96.5
93.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
67.0
61.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
0.6% 5y
1.0% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€44,318
€44,565
Population density
2,029 /km²
679 /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)
€9,440M
€14,072M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€5M
€471M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,266M
€1,277M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,150M
€1,142M
GVA — construction (F)
€196M
€1,335M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,878M
€3,730M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€28,000
€26,500
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
38,100 PPS
38,400 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€44,400
€44,800
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€41,901M
€47,953M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€3,039M
€3,533M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€104,822M
€103,312M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,403M
€1,353M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€388M
€495M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,902M
€3,500M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,624M
€2,672M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
111,100
164,800
Self-employed persons
25,600
33,700
Employment in manufacturing (C)
5,000
9,800
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
86.4%
84.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
8.8%
11.4%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
38,640
42,109
Enterprise births
3,487
3,608
Enterprise deaths
1,942
1,973
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.8%
6.4%
Innovation & R&D
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
6.8%
5.4%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
52.2%
47.3%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
62.6%
56.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
27.4%
26.5%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
36.5%
33.0%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
14.0%
13.2%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
99.2%
99.2%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,881,930
771,561
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
428 /1k
440 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
459
896
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
898 kt
9,686 kt
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
193
255
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
108 km/1000km²
134 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
13
22
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
3
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
150,227
220,377
Population aged 65+
48,822
73,906
Population aged under 15
38,298
57,563
Median age of population
43.0 yrs
42.5 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.5%
33.5%
Crude rate of total population change
3.6 /1k
9.3 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.0 /1k
7.0 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.2 /1k
11.1 /1k
Crude death rate
10.6 /1k
8.7 /1k
Live births
2,183
3,888
Deaths
2,512
3,055
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
58.0%
59.7%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.38
1.77
Population density (persons per km²)
2,078 /km²
708 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
16.9%
17.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.1 yrs
82.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.8%
14.0%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
990 /100k
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Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
244 /100k
239 /100k
Safety & crime
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
27 /M
28 /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)
10 m
-1 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
3 days/yr
3 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
21 days/yr
29 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
3 days/yr