NUTS-3 FR105 · France
Population
1,668,2752025
GDP
€198,210M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
8.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
76.5%2025
Active firms
448,3952026
Cadastral parcels
161,8592026
Area
174.1 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
FR105 · AT130
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Hauts-de-Seine (Opportunity 74). Runner-up: Wien (69). Contrarian pick: Wien — leads the set on Digital readiness (EU pctl 88).
Strengths
Economic base (99) · Talent & skills (95)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
#2Wien
Strengths
Economic base (92) · Digital readiness (88)
Red flags
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Hauts-de-Seine
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%); Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%); Industrial base (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Freight intensity (EU pctl 2) — Wien may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Wien · Manufacturing → Hauts-de-Seine · Office → Hauts-de-Seine · Residential → Hauts-de-Seine .
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
73.6
69.2
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
58.8
67.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
64.1
51.7
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
38.7
30.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
74.7
61.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
94.5
85.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
31.2
62.2
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.7% 5y
2.6% 5y
Population
0.5% 5y
1.2% 5y
Unemployment rate
1.4% 5y
1.4% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€118,811
€59,145
Population density
9,582 /km²
4,890 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
97
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
269
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€177,543M
€107,861M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€13M
€71M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€17,737M
€11,434M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€12,521M
€6,799M
GVA — construction (F)
€5,355M
€4,678M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€60,925M
€31,947M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€29,600
€28,200
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
110,200 PPS
53,400 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€119,700
€60,200
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€192,308M
€28,377M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€9,999M
€2,004M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€456,581M
€62,600M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€15,798M
—
GVA — information & communication (J)
€31,637M
—
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€75,990M
€33,331M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€17,524M
€26,401M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€182,611M
€108,770M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€158,597
€113,788
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€44,750M
€29,022M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
1,273,700
1,127,400
Self-employed persons
68,400
114,100
Employment in manufacturing (C)
69,700
59,200
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
76.6%
75.4%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
21.2%
17.7%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
8.8%
9.9%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
853,000
1,055,700
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
151,570
144,099
Enterprise births
24,624
9,619
Enterprise deaths
19,180
8,358
3-year enterprise survival rate
7.6%
2.4%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.9%
3.9%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
9.1%
8.3%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
3.0%
2.7%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
58.6%
46.3%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
72.7%
51.1%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
18.0%
20.9%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
40.1%
30.6%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
14.1%
11.1%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
96.2%
98.0%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
9,070,799
19,500,454
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
433 /1k
363 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
8,325 kt
22,563 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
3,911
4,207
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
52 km/1000km²
109 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
234
207
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
17
19
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
4
2
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
1,115,651
1,401,288
Population aged 65+
275,311
334,230
Population aged under 15
277,313
292,771
Median age of population
39.1 yrs
39.7 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
24.7%
23.9%
Crude rate of total population change
4.1 /1k
11.2 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-1.5 /1k
10.1 /1k
Crude birth rate
11.9 /1k
9.5 /1k
Crude death rate
6.3 /1k
8.4 /1k
Live births
19,804
19,070
Deaths
10,424
16,917
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
49.5%
44.7%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.59
1.23
Population density (persons per km²)
9,680 /km²
5,094 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
1,591,767
2,359,096
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
20.9%
29.8%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
84.6 yrs
81.2 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
16.9%
25.7%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
473 /100k
654 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
761 /100k
1,016 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
192 /100k
231 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
1.4 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
89.3 /100k
83.9 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
359 /100k
1,644 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,225 /100k
2,039 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
21 /M
10 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.46
1.74
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.27
1.40
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.02
1.64
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.39
1.37
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.02
0.60
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.107/kWh
€0.156/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.053/kWh
€0.049/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
111 m
156 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
9 days/yr
19 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
29 days/yr
65 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
3 days/yr