NUTS-3 RO321 · Romania
Population
1,709,1912025
GDP
€94,003M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
1.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
81.1%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
239.2 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
RO321 · NL366
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Groot-Rijnmond (Opportunity 80). Runner-up: Bucureşti (65). Contrarian pick: Bucureşti — leads the set on Economic base (EU pctl 99).
Strengths
Digital readiness (94) · Talent & skills (93)
Red flags
Flood: 52% of population in the 100-year floodplain
Strengths
Economic base (99) · Talent & skills (86)
Red flags
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Governance (EU bottom 15%)
Air quality (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Groot-Rijnmond
Flood: 52% of population in the 100-year floodplain. Its weakest dimension is Industrial base (EU pctl 16) — Bucureşti may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Groot-Rijnmond 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
64.6
80.0
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
17.0
76.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
43.3
65.9
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
4.3
32.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
57.3
73.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
85.5
93.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
72.0
60.2
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
5.5% 5y
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Population
1.4% 5y
0.8% 5y
Unemployment rate
17.5% 5y
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Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€54,998
€64,487
Population density
7,145 /km²
1,011 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€85,182M
€87,455M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€257M
€986M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€7,892M
€11,651M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4,297M
€7,576M
GVA — construction (F)
€7,585M
€4,364M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€29,682M
€25,435M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€17,600
€26,500
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
90,900 PPS
55,400 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€54,800
€64,700
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€34,028M
€47,953M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,152M
€3,533M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€37,853M
€103,312M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€4,455M
€5,969M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€12,849M
€3,142M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€26,352M
€23,360M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€13,414M
€17,752M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€72,019M
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Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€92,511
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Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€34,927M
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Labour market
Employment, total persons
1,131,170
840,200
Self-employed persons
32,700
133,100
Employment in manufacturing (C)
61,000
46,200
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
76.4%
84.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
15.7%
11.4%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
1.8%
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Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
851,100
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Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
171,204
199,554
Enterprise births
26,265
22,388
Enterprise deaths
13,465
10,536
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.3%
7.6%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
0.8%
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Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
9.4%
5.4%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.5%
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Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
40.7%
47.3%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
47.3%
56.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
20.5%
26.5%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
31.0%
33.0%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
13.0%
13.2%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
96.7%
99.2%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
4,147,853
7,108,552
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
671 /1k
440 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
11,912 kt
63,361 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
2,287
2,920
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
72 km/1000km²
134 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
134
193
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
7
13
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)
1,115,857
987,125
Population aged 65+
335,013
287,922
Population aged under 15
258,321
236,104
Median age of population
42.8 yrs
40.6 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
30.0%
29.2%
Crude rate of total population change
-7.3 /1k
5.7 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-3.3 /1k
5.2 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.3 /1k
9.7 /1k
Crude death rate
12.3 /1k
9.2 /1k
Live births
14,154
14,591
Deaths
21,051
13,794
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
53.2%
53.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.23
1.38
Population density (persons per km²)
7,426 /km²
1,241 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
959,208
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Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
13.6%
17.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
77.8 yrs
82.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
2.7%
14.0%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
1,057 /100k
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Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,823 /100k
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Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
328 /100k
239 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.8 /100k
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Robberies per 100k inhabitants
44.5 /100k
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Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
238 /100k
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Thefts per 100k inhabitants
751 /100k
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Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
49 /M
28 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.20
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Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.39
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Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.44
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Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.07
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Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.55
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Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.155/kWh
€0.142/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.051/kWh
€0.039/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
84 m
4 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
38 days/yr
5 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
71 days/yr
27 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
2 days/yr