NUTS-3 NL365 · Netherlands
Population
351,8462025
GDP
€15,680M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
82%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
518.5 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
NL365 · NL127
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Oost-Zuid-Holland (Opportunity 76). Runner-up: Noord-Friesland (63). Contrarian pick: Noord-Friesland — leads the set on Digital readiness (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
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) — Noord-Friesland may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Oost-Zuid-Holland 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
- 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
76.2
63.2
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
89.5
62.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
69.6
61.3
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
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83.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
73.0
55.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
93.3
79.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
61.0
54.6
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
1.0% 5y
0.6% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€44,565
€43,629
Population density
679 /km²
214 /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)
€14,072M
€12,920M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€471M
€461M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,277M
€2,009M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,142M
€1,270M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,335M
€759M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,730M
€2,266M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€26,500
€24,800
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
38,400 PPS
37,500 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€44,800
€43,800
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€47,953M
€6,262M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€3,533M
€616M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€103,312M
€13,205M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,353M
€972M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€495M
€300M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,500M
€3,251M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,672M
€3,881M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
164,800
166,600
Self-employed persons
33,700
32,600
Employment in manufacturing (C)
9,800
12,200
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
84.3%
85.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
11.4%
7.6%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
42,109
35,353
Enterprise births
3,608
3,044
Enterprise deaths
1,973
1,581
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.4%
6.5%
Innovation & R&D
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
5.4%
2.6%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
47.3%
38.6%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
56.7%
48.1%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
26.5%
24.1%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
33.0%
27.6%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
13.2%
10.5%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
99.2%
99.6%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
771,561
4,093,770
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
440 /1k
545 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
896
1,256
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
9,686 kt
8,441 kt
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
255
381
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
134 km/1000km²
63 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
22
51
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
220,377
207,386
Population aged 65+
73,906
73,953
Population aged under 15
57,563
48,634
Median age of population
42.5 yrs
43.7 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
33.5%
35.7%
Crude rate of total population change
9.3 /1k
3.8 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
7.0 /1k
5.5 /1k
Crude birth rate
11.1 /1k
8.5 /1k
Crude death rate
8.7 /1k
10.3 /1k
Live births
3,888
2,814
Deaths
3,055
3,398
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.7%
59.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.77
1.46
Population density (persons per km²)
708 /km²
231 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
17.2%
14.9%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.0 yrs
81.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.0%
14.4%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
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1,018 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
239 /100k
239 /100k
Safety & crime
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
28 /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)
-1 m
-1 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
3 days/yr
2 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
29 days/yr
27 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
3 days/yr