NUTS-3 FRF33 · France
Population
1,050,2552025
GDP
€32,195M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
7.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
73.1%2025
Active firms
187,6112026
Cadastral parcels
1,563,8682026
Area
6,243.2 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
FRF33 · NL411
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: West-Noord-Brabant (Opportunity 78). Runner-up: Moselle (61). Contrarian pick: Moselle — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 88).
Strengths
Digital readiness (97) · Labour market (92)
Red flags
Flood: 20% of population in the 100-year floodplain
#2Moselle
Strengths
Energy cost (88) · Air quality (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 West-Noord-Brabant
Flood: 20% of population in the 100-year floodplain. Its weakest dimension is Industrial base (EU pctl 28) — Moselle may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
West-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
- Flood defences, return-period design and insurance for flagged regions
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
61.1
77.6
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
50.0
77.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
44.2
63.8
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
73.0
41.7
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
54.0
64.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
54.3
89.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
45.2
55.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.3% 5y
1.9% 5y
Population
0.0% 5y
0.6% 5y
Unemployment rate
2.2% 5y
0.0% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€30,654
€59,519
Population density
168 /km²
500 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
1,489
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
179
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€28,728M
€34,931M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€216M
€965M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€5,298M
€5,649M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,439M
€4,208M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,781M
€1,808M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€5,336M
€9,007M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€22,600
€27,000
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
28,000 PPS
51,100 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€30,400
€59,600
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€16,068M
€30,094M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,764M
€4,238M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€37,107M
€73,167M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€4,673M
€2,504M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€499M
€784M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€8,030M
€8,243M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€8,066M
€6,990M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€28,545M
€32,514M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€87,942
€110,390
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€7,216M
€7,459M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
373,100
368,700
Self-employed persons
34,000
58,400
Employment in manufacturing (C)
40,200
34,700
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
72.3%
86.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
24.8%
7.8%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
7.8%
3.5%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
473,400
370,200
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
55,320
79,951
Enterprise births
7,988
7,025
Enterprise deaths
5,849
4,045
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.3%
6.7%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.2%
—
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
2.1%
5.5%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
0.8%
—
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
35.9%
43.9%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
48.6%
54.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
10.9%
25.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
24.9%
29.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
6.7%
13.1%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
93.7%
99.5%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,751,430
2,289,732
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.
5,815
1,264
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
19,790 kt
27,864 kt
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
20 km/1000km²
102 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
554
193
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
72
44
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
4
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
652,409
413,146
Population aged 65+
231,424
146,865
Population aged under 15
166,422
93,944
Median age of population
43.8 yrs
44.8 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.5%
35.5%
Crude rate of total population change
-0.6 /1k
4.3 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
1.4 /1k
6.3 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.3 /1k
8.7 /1k
Crude death rate
10.3 /1k
10.8 /1k
Live births
8,693
5,702
Deaths
10,836
7,029
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
61.0%
58.3%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.42
1.44
Population density (persons per km²)
170 /km²
528 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
949,251
670,009
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
20.8%
13.5%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.7 yrs
82.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
15.8%
11.6%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
566 /100k
—
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
946 /100k
1,001 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
240 /100k
249 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.8 /100k
—
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
35.9 /100k
22.9 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
346 /100k
189 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,257 /100k
1,328 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
51 /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)
259 m
9 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
11 days/yr
6 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
55 days/yr
29 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
2 days/yr