NUTS-3 FRD13 · France
Population
272,6272025
GDP
€8,028M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
6.6%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
76.4%2025
Active firms
57,1262026
Cadastral parcels
563,1952026
Area
6,141.9 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
FRD13 · FI1C6
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Orne (Opportunity 44). Runner-up: Päijät-Häme (34). Contrarian pick: Päijät-Häme — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 99).
#1Orne
Strengths
Air quality (90) · Energy cost (88)
Red flags
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Long-run slide: down 15 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
Why you might not pick Orne
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%); Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%); Long-run slide: down 15 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute). Its weakest dimension is Digital readiness (EU pctl 8) — Päijät-Häme may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Orne 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
43.5
33.9
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
64.5
63.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
48.7
54.7
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
90.0
80.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
32.3
42.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
61.8
64.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
22.4
10.8
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
0.6% 5y
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Population
0.4% 5y
0.2% 5y
Unemployment rate
1.3% 5y
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Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€29,448
€37,523
Population density
44 /km²
29 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
2,066
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
210
FR-only
All indicators · 90 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€7,163M
€6,715M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€368M
€270M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,479M
€1,565M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,359M
€1,327M
GVA — construction (F)
€500M
€444M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,007M
€1,135M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€23,200
€23,700
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
27,100 PPS
31,200 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€29,400
€37,500
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€11,208M
€8,779M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,469M
€1,548M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€26,527M
€22,877M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,111M
€1,087M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€47M
€196M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,664M
€1,676M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,146M
€1,625M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€7,133M
—
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€75,411
—
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€1,788M
—
Labour market
Employment, total persons
108,500
84,460
Self-employed persons
14,200
9,590
Employment in manufacturing (C)
17,500
15,020
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
76.8%
79.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
15.3%
20.8%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
6.5%
—
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
117,700
—
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
15,303
14,445
Enterprise births
1,734
1,149
Enterprise deaths
1,458
1,237
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.1%
5.0%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.1%
1.9%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
2.4%
4.6%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
0.8%
1.3%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
39.4%
39.0%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
50.8%
34.8%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
14.7%
26.4%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
26.1%
26.8%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
7.1%
9.1%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
90.7%
96.6%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
578,069
658,125
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
—
710 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
10,118 kt
6,813 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
913
2,263
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
335
1,106
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
16 km/1000km²
11 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
171
111
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
153,919
119,134
Population aged 65+
77,450
58,515
Population aged under 15
41,258
26,986
Median age of population
49.4 yrs
48.5 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
50.3%
49.1%
Crude rate of total population change
-4.9 /1k
0.8 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.6 /1k
7.6 /1k
Crude birth rate
7.9 /1k
6.3 /1k
Crude death rate
13.3 /1k
13.1 /1k
Live births
2,150
1,286
Deaths
3,642
2,676
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
77.1%
71.8%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.73
1.22
Population density (persons per km²)
45 /km²
32 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
216,542
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Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
16.9%
17.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.3 yrs
81.9 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
12.8%
12.7%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
557 /100k
256 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
894 /100k
944 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
230 /100k
209 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
2.0 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
29.6 /100k
46.0 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
500 /100k
90.5 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,070 /100k
1,665 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
63 /M
38 /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
€0.067/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.053/kWh
€0.065/kWh
Housing market
Dwelling price per m² — old housing-company dwellings (Statistics Finland)
—
€1,510/m²
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
266 m
77 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
5 days/yr
0 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
30 days/yr
141 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
2 days/yr