NUTS-3 FRE22 · France
Population
827,9282025
GDP
€26,284M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
7.5%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
74.3%2025
Active firms
142,3602026
Cadastral parcels
992,2812026
Area
5,892.6 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
FRE22 · NL415
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Midden-Noord-Brabant (Opportunity 78). Runner-up: Oise (66). Contrarian pick: Oise — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 88).
#2Oise
Strengths
Energy cost (88) · Connectivity (80)
Red flags
Long-run slide: down 19 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
Why you might not pick Midden-Noord-Brabant
Its weakest dimension is Industrial base (EU pctl 31) — Oise may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Midden-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
65.8
78.3
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
57.8
81.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
41.3
65.4
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
51.7
43.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
80.3
70.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
50.3
89.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
47.0
60.8
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.1% 5y
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Population
0.0% 5y
0.9% 5y
Unemployment rate
3.0% 5y
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Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€31,747
€51,915
Population density
141 /km²
534 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
1,199
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
172
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€23,492M
€23,853M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€406M
€598M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,287M
€3,205M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,883M
€3,021M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,354M
€1,263M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€5,237M
€6,052M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€21,900
€27,000
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
29,100 PPS
44,700 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€31,600
€52,100
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€13,339M
€30,094M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,885M
€4,238M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€30,350M
€73,167M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€3,823M
€1,879M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€336M
€349M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€6,275M
€5,995M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€5,933M
€5,095M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€23,370M
—
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€92,434
—
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€5,860M
—
Labour market
Employment, total persons
289,800
288,900
Self-employed persons
28,500
46,500
Employment in manufacturing (C)
36,600
25,300
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
73.1%
86.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
28.2%
7.8%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
7.4%
—
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
377,400
—
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
46,118
61,820
Enterprise births
6,621
5,560
Enterprise deaths
4,980
3,036
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.3%
6.9%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.4%
—
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
2.8%
5.5%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
0.8%
—
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
35.5%
43.9%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
38.3%
54.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
11.0%
25.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
24.6%
29.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
8.0%
13.1%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
92.8%
99.5%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,716,946
3,821,655
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
—
565 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
26,659 kt
16,462 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
4,907
977
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
593
191
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
29 km/1000km²
102 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
22
27
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
4
6
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
514,221
331,747
Population aged 65+
157,169
106,156
Population aged under 15
156,538
74,067
Median age of population
41.2 yrs
42.4 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
30.6%
32.0%
Crude rate of total population change
-1.2 /1k
8.8 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-2.8 /1k
9.5 /1k
Crude birth rate
10.2 /1k
8.9 /1k
Crude death rate
8.5 /1k
9.6 /1k
Live births
8,455
4,533
Deaths
7,071
4,881
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
61.0%
54.3%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.76
1.38
Population density (persons per km²)
141 /km²
555 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
765,528
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Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
19.1%
13.5%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.6 yrs
82.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.5%
11.6%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
545 /100k
—
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
977 /100k
1,001 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
244 /100k
249 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
—
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
51.3 /100k
—
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
339 /100k
—
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,616 /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
—
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
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Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.02
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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)
80 m
21 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
8 days/yr
6 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
33 days/yr
32 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
1 days/yr
3 days/yr