NUTS-3 PT194 · Portugal
Population
259,5902025
GDP
€5,363M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
5%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
80.5%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
3,231.1 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
PT194 · PT1D2
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Viseu Dão Lafões (Opportunity 46). Runner-up: Médio Tejo (37). Contrarian pick: Médio Tejo — leads the set on Resilience (EU pctl 84).
Strengths
Air quality (99) · Energy cost (90)
Red flags
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Viseu Dão Lafões
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%); Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Digital readiness (EU pctl 5) — Médio Tejo may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Viseu Dão Lafões 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
46.0
36.9
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
83.0
83.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
52.2
32.6
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
99.0
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
19.7
18.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
70.0
55.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
73.8
62.8
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
0.5% 5y
0.7% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€20,661
€21,065
Population density
80 /km²
81 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 74 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€4,664M
€4,002M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€211M
€150M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,051M
€785M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€931M
€607M
GVA — construction (F)
€309M
€200M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€953M
€940M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€14,500
€14,400
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
25,200 PPS
25,700 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€20,800
€21,200
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€7,092M
€3,139M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€2,154M
€831M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€16,948M
€7,446M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€453M
€405M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€56M
€75M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€891M
€710M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,011M
€921M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
114,260
85,130
Self-employed persons
22,220
11,830
Employment in manufacturing (C)
19,140
13,590
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
79.0%
77.1%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
19.0%
19.8%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
27,789
23,357
Enterprise births
3,909
3,253
Enterprise deaths
3,098
2,570
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.8%
4.6%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.0%
0.9%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.2%
4.0%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.8%
0.6%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
33.4%
28.5%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
46.4%
40.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
17.9%
16.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
23.5%
20.2%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
10.4%
9.7%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
88.3%
90.6%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
693,695
1,663,513
Mobility
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
21
33
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
2,398 kt
3,207 kt
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
8
15
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
90
108
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
155,467
131,006
Population aged 65+
75,339
62,731
Population aged under 15
28,784
24,730
Median age of population
50.0 yrs
50.4 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
48.5%
47.9%
Crude rate of total population change
12.7 /1k
18.2 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
19.3 /1k
25.2 /1k
Crude birth rate
6.4 /1k
6.9 /1k
Crude death rate
13.0 /1k
13.9 /1k
Live births
1,686
1,542
Deaths
3,430
3,101
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
67.0%
66.8%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.28
1.42
Population density (persons per km²)
80 /km²
81 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
19.9%
20.4%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
83.0 yrs
82.4 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
17.0%
17.2%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
332 /100k
156 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
209 /100k
217 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
1.4 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
23.4 /100k
62.8 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
95.8 /100k
174 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
369 /100k
600 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
80 /M
86 /M
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.107/kWh
€0.107/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.045/kWh
€0.045/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
498 m
27 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
38 days/yr
67 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
8 days/yr
1 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
15 days/yr
7 days/yr