NUTS-3 AT212 · Austria
Population
123,5972025
GDP
€5,004M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
76.8%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
4,141.5 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
AT212 · NL114
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Oost-Groningen (Opportunity 50). Runner-up: Oberkärnten (46). Contrarian pick: Oberkärnten — leads the set on Air quality (EU pctl 80).
Strengths
Air quality (80) · Freight intensity (68)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Oost-Groningen
Its weakest dimension is Industrial base (EU pctl 38) — Oberkärnten may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Oost-Groningen 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
50.4
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
60.3
52.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
57.1
59.3
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
80.0
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
26.3
67.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
60.0
91.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
56.8
46.2
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
3.0% 5y
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Population
0.0% 5y
0.6% 5y
Unemployment rate
0.4% 5y
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Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€40,485
€34,888
Population density
30 /km²
181 /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)
€4,499M
€4,358M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€142M
€216M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,388M
€962M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€608M
€635M
GVA — construction (F)
€495M
€297M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€976M
€685M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€30,100
€24,100
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
35,800 PPS
30,200 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€40,400
€35,200
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€7,146M
€6,193M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,987M
€504M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€12,640M
€14,058M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
—
€353M
GVA — information & communication (J)
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€73M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€761M
€820M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€737M
€1,324M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€4,140M
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Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€100,577
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Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€1,293M
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Labour market
Employment, total persons
51,700
59,000
Self-employed persons
10,100
11,400
Employment in manufacturing (C)
6,900
5,700
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
77.6%
83.1%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
—
9.7%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
4.7%
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Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
59,000
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Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
7,966
11,850
Enterprise births
484
946
Enterprise deaths
371
594
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.2%
6.1%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
3.2%
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Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
5.7%
4.3%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.7%
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Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
36.0%
45.0%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
42.8%
60.3%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
14.8%
26.8%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
23.5%
31.2%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.0%
11.7%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
89.4%
99.5%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
5,629,049
565,236
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
661 /1k
507 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
4,566 kt
5,235 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
3
672
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
26 km/1000km²
46 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
2
483
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
71
31
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
75,893
84,125
Population aged 65+
31,783
36,050
Population aged under 15
15,921
19,016
Median age of population
49.5 yrs
48.7 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
41.9%
42.9%
Crude rate of total population change
-1.4 /1k
9.2 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.3 /1k
14.8 /1k
Crude birth rate
7.0 /1k
7.7 /1k
Crude death rate
11.7 /1k
13.3 /1k
Live births
871
1,062
Deaths
1,451
1,837
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
62.9%
65.5%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.36
1.53
Population density (persons per km²)
30 /km²
186 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
92,312
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Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
21.2%
22.4%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.3 yrs
80.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
19.8%
18.6%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
768 /100k
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Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
953 /100k
1,078 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
221 /100k
264 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
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Robberies per 100k inhabitants
4.8 /100k
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Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
120 /100k
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Thefts per 100k inhabitants
545 /100k
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Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
53 /M
40 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.74
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Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.40
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Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.64
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Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.37
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Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.60
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Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.156/kWh
€0.142/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.049/kWh
€0.039/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
1,041 m
7 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
3 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
132 days/yr
39 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
14 days/yr
2 days/yr