NUTS-3 NL415 · Netherlands
Population
511,9702025
GDP
€26,579M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.5%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
84.1%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
959.2 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
NL415 · NL364
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Midden-Noord-Brabant (Opportunity 78). Runner-up: Zuidoost-Zuid-Holland (78). Contrarian pick: Zuidoost-Zuid-Holland — leads the set on Talent & skills (EU pctl 93).
Strengths
Digital readiness (94) · Talent & skills (93)
Red flags
Flood: 83% of population in the 100-year floodplain
Why you might not pick Midden-Noord-Brabant
Its weakest dimension is Industrial base (EU pctl 31) — Zuidoost-Zuid-Holland may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Midden-Noord-Brabant · Manufacturing → Midden-Noord-Brabant · Office → Zuidoost-Zuid-Holland · Residential → Zuidoost-Zuid-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
- 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
78.3
77.8
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
81.0
87.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
65.4
67.9
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
43.0
44.5
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
70.7
71.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
89.5
93.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
60.8
60.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
0.9% 5y
0.6% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€51,915
€59,130
Population density
534 /km²
945 /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)
€23,853M
€20,313M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€598M
€110M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,205M
€2,972M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,021M
€2,764M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,263M
€2,184M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€6,052M
€5,739M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€27,000
€26,500
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
44,700 PPS
50,800 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€52,100
€59,200
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€30,094M
€47,953M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€4,238M
€3,533M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€73,167M
€103,312M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,879M
€1,356M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€349M
€418M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€5,995M
€4,555M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€5,095M
€3,385M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
288,900
210,600
Self-employed persons
46,500
32,500
Employment in manufacturing (C)
25,300
20,600
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
86.3%
84.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
7.8%
11.4%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
61,820
44,531
Enterprise births
5,560
4,319
Enterprise deaths
3,036
2,064
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.9%
6.7%
Innovation & R&D
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
5.5%
5.4%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
43.9%
47.3%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
54.7%
56.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
25.0%
26.5%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
29.5%
33.0%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
13.1%
13.2%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
99.5%
99.2%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,821,655
582,996
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
565 /1k
440 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
16,462 kt
10,402 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
977
1,066
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
102 km/1000km²
134 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
191
279
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
27
28
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
6
4
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
331,747
241,002
Population aged 65+
106,156
78,792
Population aged under 15
74,067
63,000
Median age of population
42.4 yrs
42.2 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.0%
32.7%
Crude rate of total population change
8.8 /1k
4.5 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
9.5 /1k
3.9 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.9 /1k
10.2 /1k
Crude death rate
9.6 /1k
9.7 /1k
Live births
4,533
3,906
Deaths
4,881
3,693
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
54.3%
58.8%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.38
1.65
Population density (persons per km²)
555 /km²
1,067 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
13.5%
17.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.0 yrs
82.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
11.6%
14.0%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,001 /100k
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Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
249 /100k
239 /100k
Safety & crime
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
43 /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)
21 m
-2 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
5 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
32 days/yr
29 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
2 days/yr