NUTS-3 FRD22 · France
Population
1,261,5292025
GDP
€48,372M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
75.4%2025
Active firms
224,7272026
Cadastral parcels
828,2352026
Area
6,295.6 km²
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FRD22 · NL414
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant (Opportunity 82). Runner-up: Seine-Maritime (61). Contrarian pick: Seine-Maritime — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 88).
Why you might not pick Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant
Its weakest dimension is Cost advantage (EU pctl 33) — Seine-Maritime may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Zuidoost-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
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
60.8
81.7
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
57.3
72.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
43.0
63.3
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
45.3
36.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
46.3
76.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
61.3
89.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
40.0
67.6
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.8% 5y
3.8% 5y
Population
0.1% 5y
0.9% 5y
Unemployment rate
0.7% 5y
0.0% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€38,344
€77,318
Population density
200 /km²
559 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
657
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
178
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€43,206M
€56,641M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€422M
€970M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€9,007M
€17,788M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€6,861M
€17,357M
GVA — construction (F)
€2,644M
€2,261M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€9,028M
€9,739M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€23,000
€27,000
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
35,400 PPS
66,600 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€38,400
€77,600
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€14,261M
€30,094M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€2,354M
€4,238M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€34,022M
€73,167M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€5,365M
€3,521M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€1,511M
€1,733M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€10,594M
€13,146M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€11,512M
€8,939M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€44,205M
€52,722M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€91,226
€130,920
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€10,532M
€12,095M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
540,400
504,100
Self-employed persons
46,300
74,700
Employment in manufacturing (C)
60,600
80,400
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
74.3%
86.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
23.2%
7.8%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
8.0%
3.5%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
569,800
471,500
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
67,622
98,694
Enterprise births
9,612
8,576
Enterprise deaths
7,062
4,852
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.5%
6.8%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.3%
—
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
2.6%
5.5%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
0.9%
—
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
38.4%
43.9%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
47.6%
54.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
13.2%
25.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
25.7%
29.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
7.6%
13.1%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
94.1%
99.5%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,870,065
5,792,849
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
—
565 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
5,372
1,735
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
39,957 kt
20,581 kt
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
36 km/1000km²
102 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
426
213
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
88
10
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
6
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
767,636
526,219
Population aged 65+
279,885
171,849
Population aged under 15
214,008
118,223
Median age of population
42.2 yrs
42.6 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
36.5%
32.7%
Crude rate of total population change
0.2 /1k
8.8 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.6 /1k
9.1 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.7 /1k
9.1 /1k
Crude death rate
10.2 /1k
9.5 /1k
Live births
12,254
7,400
Deaths
12,813
7,696
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
64.3%
55.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.63
1.42
Population density (persons per km²)
202 /km²
559 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
1,199,524
855,399
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
17.7%
13.5%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.9 yrs
82.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
13.3%
11.6%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
535 /100k
—
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
921 /100k
1,001 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
247 /100k
249 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.9 /100k
—
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
75.6 /100k
30.6 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
375 /100k
226 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,804 /100k
1,388 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
54 /M
43 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.46
1.77
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.27
1.72
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.02
1.73
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.39
1.92
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.02
0.63
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)
138 m
27 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
4 days/yr
8 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
23 days/yr
35 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
3 days/yr