NUTS-3 NL363 · Netherlands
Population
447,6012025
GDP
€22,921M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
82%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
—
Area
298.4 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
NL363 · FI19B
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Agglomeratie Leiden en Bollenstreek (Opportunity 77). Runner-up: Pirkanmaa (49). Contrarian pick: Pirkanmaa — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 99).
Strengths
Digital readiness (94) · Talent & skills (93)
No red flags
Why you might not pick Agglomeratie Leiden en Bollenstreek
Its weakest dimension is Freight intensity (EU pctl 19) — Pirkanmaa may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Agglomeratie Leiden en Bollenstreek 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
77.0
49.2
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
80.3
72.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
70.1
53.5
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
67.3
89.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
71.3
32.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
93.3
71.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
58.8
34.2
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
0.8% 5y
1.0% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€51,208
€45,291
Population density
1,500 /km²
35 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 78 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€20,570M
€21,604M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€248M
€498M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,362M
€4,749M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,969M
€3,881M
GVA — construction (F)
€820M
€1,243M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,833M
€4,379M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€26,500
€22,800
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
44,000 PPS
37,900 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€51,300
€45,500
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€47,953M
€13,845M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€3,533M
€2,726M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€103,312M
€29,084M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,022M
€2,925M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€449M
€1,536M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€5,335M
€5,591M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€5,202M
€5,145M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
227,000
251,780
Self-employed persons
40,500
24,800
Employment in manufacturing (C)
15,300
37,740
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
84.3%
80.0%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
11.4%
22.0%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
53,473
42,371
Enterprise births
4,725
3,993
Enterprise deaths
2,581
3,692
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.8%
5.6%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
—
3.0%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
5.4%
4.8%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
—
1.9%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
47.3%
41.5%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
56.7%
36.0%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
26.5%
27.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
33.0%
28.6%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
13.2%
10.3%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
99.2%
96.9%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,606,917
1,845,161
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
440 /1k
729 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
7,073 kt
13,199 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
866
2
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
134 km/1000km²
2 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
194
0
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
19
34
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)
290,147
345,627
Population aged 65+
92,219
122,231
Population aged under 15
65,235
77,548
Median age of population
41.9 yrs
42.0 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
31.8%
35.4%
Crude rate of total population change
4.1 /1k
11.2 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
4.6 /1k
13.1 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.7 /1k
8.1 /1k
Crude death rate
9.1 /1k
10.0 /1k
Live births
3,875
4,415
Deaths
4,084
5,450
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
54.3%
57.8%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.31
1.21
Population density (persons per km²)
1,567 /km²
39 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
17.2%
—
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.0 yrs
82.3 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.0%
—
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
—
269 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
—
903 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
239 /100k
217 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
—
2.6 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
—
39.7 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
—
121 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
—
2,173 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
28 /M
41 /M
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.142/kWh
€0.067/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.039/kWh
€0.065/kWh
Housing market
Dwelling price per m² — old housing-company dwellings (Statistics Finland)
—
€2,580/m²
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
0 m
104 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
3 days/yr
1 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
23 days/yr
148 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
2 days/yr