NUTS-3 FRB02 · France
Population
433,1242025
GDP
€13,650M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
6.1%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
77.9%2025
Active firms
83,3152026
Cadastral parcels
588,6612026
Area
5,932.8 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
FRB02 · NL127
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Noord-Friesland (Opportunity 63). Runner-up: Eure-et-Loir (62). Contrarian pick: Eure-et-Loir — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 88).
Strengths
Energy cost (88) · Talent & skills (73)
Red flags
Long-run slide: down 16 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
Why you might not pick Noord-Friesland
Its weakest dimension is Industrial base (EU pctl 20) — Eure-et-Loir may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Noord-Friesland · Manufacturing → Eure-et-Loir · Office → Noord-Friesland · Residential → Noord-Friesland.
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
62.4
63.2
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
62.5
62.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
51.4
61.3
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
71.7
83.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
54.0
55.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
73.0
79.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
48.2
54.6
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
1.1% 5y
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Population
0.1% 5y
0.6% 5y
Unemployment rate
7.3% 5y
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Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€31,515
€43,629
Population density
73 /km²
214 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
1,359
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
192
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€12,197M
€12,920M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€345M
€461M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,529M
€2,009M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,311M
€1,270M
GVA — construction (F)
€726M
€759M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,249M
€2,266M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€23,500
€24,800
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
29,100 PPS
37,500 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€31,600
€43,800
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€20,283M
€6,262M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€2,604M
€616M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€46,136M
€13,205M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,922M
€972M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€361M
€300M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,370M
€3,251M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,980M
€3,881M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€12,102M
—
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€90,507
—
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€3,076M
—
Labour market
Employment, total persons
153,700
166,600
Self-employed persons
17,200
32,600
Employment in manufacturing (C)
22,700
12,200
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
76.3%
85.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
18.0%
7.6%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
6.1%
—
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
198,500
—
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
24,899
35,353
Enterprise births
3,490
3,044
Enterprise deaths
2,513
1,581
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.9%
6.5%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.4%
—
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.4%
2.6%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.0%
—
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
41.4%
38.6%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
51.6%
48.1%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
16.2%
24.1%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
26.6%
27.6%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.0%
10.5%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
94.3%
99.6%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
951,162
4,093,770
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
631 /1k
545 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
14,152 kt
8,441 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,948
1,256
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
25 km/1000km²
63 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
450
381
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
77
51
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
258,416
207,386
Population aged 65+
96,879
73,953
Population aged under 15
77,829
48,634
Median age of population
43.9 yrs
43.7 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
37.5%
35.7%
Crude rate of total population change
-0.3 /1k
3.8 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.7 /1k
5.5 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.2 /1k
8.5 /1k
Crude death rate
10.3 /1k
10.3 /1k
Live births
3,990
2,814
Deaths
4,451
3,398
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
67.6%
59.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.76
1.46
Population density (persons per km²)
73 /km²
231 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
356,744
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Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
15.1%
14.9%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.6 yrs
81.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
11.0%
14.4%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
555 /100k
—
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
862 /100k
1,018 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
228 /100k
239 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.7 /100k
—
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
26.5 /100k
—
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
387 /100k
—
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,179 /100k
—
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
66 /M
53 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.46
—
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.27
—
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.02
—
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.39
—
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.02
—
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.107/kWh
€0.142/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.053/kWh
€0.039/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
165 m
-1 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
8 days/yr
2 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
33 days/yr
27 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
3 days/yr