NUTS-3 RO412 · Romania
Population
307,7022025
GDP
€6,197M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
6.9%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
61.7%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
5,570.1 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
RO412 · SI034
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Savinjska (Opportunity 45). Runner-up: Gorj (31). Contrarian pick: Gorj — leads the set on Cost advantage (EU pctl 97).
#2Gorj
Strengths
Cost advantage (97) · Economic base (52)
Red flags
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%)
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Talent & skills (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Governance (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Savinjska
Air quality (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Air quality (EU pctl 11) — Gorj may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Savinjska 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
30.9
45.4
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
24.8
47.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
25.7
35.5
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
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11.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
19.7
25.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
10.5
57.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
46.0
67.2
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
1.3% 5y
2.9% 5y
Population
0.3% 5y
0.4% 5y
Unemployment rate
6.3% 5y
4.5% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€20,140
€27,048
Population density
55 /km²
114 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 88 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€5,616M
€6,294M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€141M
€139M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,264M
€2,128M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€309M
€1,742M
GVA — construction (F)
€509M
€608M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,247M
€1,405M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€7,500
€16,700
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
33,300 PPS
30,900 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€20,100
€27,100
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€4,369M
€6,367M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€531M
€1,605M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€8,535M
€14,558M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€361M
€491M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€33M
€102M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€698M
€1,007M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€756M
€1,007M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€3,757M
€5,828M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€45,884
€57,703
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€1,153M
€1,730M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
150,350
129,370
Self-employed persons
43,690
27,780
Employment in manufacturing (C)
11,240
32,810
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
60.8%
74.8%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
32.8%
13.3%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
6.8%
4.2%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
125,600
126,500
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
12,500
22,056
Enterprise births
1,304
2,314
Enterprise deaths
820
1,402
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.4%
5.5%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
0.2%
1.4%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
1.9%
4.9%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
0.1%
0.9%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
16.8%
31.0%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
20.4%
40.2%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
3.0%
20.4%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
15.3%
23.2%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
7.5%
8.3%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
95.3%
92.4%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
203,047
1,811,443
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
428 /1k
592 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
90
4
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
4,477 kt
10,150 kt
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
29
2
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
0 km/1000km²
26 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
84
68
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
4
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
206,600
167,016
Population aged 65+
61,773
57,446
Population aged under 15
39,329
38,352
Median age of population
46.4 yrs
45.7 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
29.9%
34.4%
Crude rate of total population change
-7.6 /1k
3.9 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-0.9 /1k
6.2 /1k
Crude birth rate
6.0 /1k
8.1 /1k
Crude death rate
12.7 /1k
10.4 /1k
Live births
1,867
2,116
Deaths
3,935
2,721
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
48.9%
57.4%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.17
1.63
Population density (persons per km²)
56 /km²
115 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
123,875
224,834
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
36.0%
17.7%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
76.9 yrs
81.3 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
27.8%
16.2%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
718 /100k
340 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,743 /100k
1,141 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
189 /100k
285 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
0.0 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
7.4 /100k
7.6 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
81.0 /100k
229 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
135 /100k
768 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
111 /M
32 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.20
1.26
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.39
0.74
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.44
0.92
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.07
0.75
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.55
0.77
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.155/kWh
€0.132/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.051/kWh
€0.051/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
282 m
259 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
22 days/yr
14 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
86 days/yr
72 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
7 days/yr
11 days/yr