NUTS-3 DK032 · Denmark
Population
733,1232025
GDP
€45,185M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
6.1%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
78.1%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
8,632.7 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
DK032 · NL411
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: West-Noord-Brabant (Opportunity 78). Runner-up: Sydjylland (55). Contrarian pick: Sydjylland — leads the set on Governance (EU pctl 99).
Strengths
Digital readiness (97) · Labour market (92)
Red flags
Flood: 20% of population in the 100-year floodplain
Why you might not pick West-Noord-Brabant
Flood: 20% of population in the 100-year floodplain. Its weakest dimension is Industrial base (EU pctl 28) — Sydjylland may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
West-Noord-Brabant 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
55.0
77.6
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
71.5
77.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
60.3
63.8
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
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41.7
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
60.3
64.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
72.8
89.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
27.8
55.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
1.9% 5y
1.9% 5y
Population
0.2% 5y
0.6% 5y
Unemployment rate
3.3% 5y
0.0% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€61,633
€59,519
Population density
85 /km²
500 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 90 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€40,042M
€34,931M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€740M
€965M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€10,032M
€5,649M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€9,105M
€4,208M
GVA — construction (F)
€2,769M
€1,808M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€9,050M
€9,007M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€26,600
€27,000
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
47,700 PPS
51,100 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€61,700
€59,600
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€16,719M
€30,094M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€3,098M
€4,238M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€37,994M
€73,167M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€4,498M
€2,504M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€649M
€784M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€8,719M
€8,243M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€8,733M
€6,990M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€41,892M
€32,514M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€115,791
€110,390
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€11,179M
€7,459M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
403,390
368,700
Self-employed persons
21,550
58,400
Employment in manufacturing (C)
58,130
34,700
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
80.2%
86.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
13.5%
7.8%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
6.0%
3.5%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
380,600
370,200
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
42,843
79,951
Enterprise births
2,772
7,025
Enterprise deaths
3,815
4,045
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.1%
6.7%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.0%
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Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
2.6%
5.5%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.4%
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Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
39.4%
43.9%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
44.2%
54.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
28.3%
25.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
26.1%
29.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.5%
13.1%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
97.5%
99.5%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
7,848,538
2,289,732
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
514 /1k
565 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
36,416 kt
27,864 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
5,149
1,264
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
702
193
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
32 km/1000km²
102 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
41
44
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
4
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
448,687
413,146
Population aged 65+
169,001
146,865
Population aged under 15
115,435
93,944
Median age of population
45.2 yrs
44.8 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
37.7%
35.5%
Crude rate of total population change
0.7 /1k
4.3 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.9 /1k
6.3 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.5 /1k
8.7 /1k
Crude death rate
10.7 /1k
10.8 /1k
Live births
6,237
5,702
Deaths
7,832
7,029
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
63.4%
58.3%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.60
1.44
Population density (persons per km²)
85 /km²
528 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
765,442
670,009
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
17.7%
13.5%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.8 yrs
82.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
11.0%
11.6%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
205 /100k
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Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
982 /100k
1,001 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
274 /100k
249 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.7 /100k
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Robberies per 100k inhabitants
15.3 /100k
22.9 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
584 /100k
189 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,825 /100k
1,328 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
31 /M
43 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
2.10
1.77
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
2.02
1.72
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
2.00
1.73
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
2.30
1.92
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.84
0.63
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.122/kWh
€0.142/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.043/kWh
€0.039/kWh
Housing market
Average sold price, one-family houses (DKK thousands, Statistics Denmark)
1,901 kDKK
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Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
54 m
9 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
6 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
51 days/yr
29 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
2 days/yr