NUTS-3 FRK25 · France
Population
776,3292025
GDP
€25,880M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
7.1%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
77.1%2025
Active firms
160,0942026
Cadastral parcels
1,080,4892026
Area
4,811.2 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
FRK25 · FRF12
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Haut-Rhin (Opportunity 66). Runner-up: Loire (58). Contrarian pick: Loire — leads the set on Talent & skills (EU pctl 90).
Strengths
Energy cost (88) · Talent & skills (78)
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 Haut-Rhin
Long-run slide: down 16 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute). Its weakest dimension is Freight intensity (EU pctl 34) — Loire may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Haut-Rhin · Manufacturing → Haut-Rhin · Office → Loire · Residential → Loire.
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
57.8
66.3
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
66.8
58.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
59.0
54.0
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
48.3
47.7
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
55.0
65.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
89.8
77.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
38.2
49.2
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
1.3% 5y
2.0% 5y
Population
0.2% 5y
0.1% 5y
Unemployment rate
1.1% 5y
7.3% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€33,337
€34,758
Population density
161 /km²
218 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
1,392
1,315
Firms per 1k pop
206
203
All indicators · 88 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€23,119M
€23,938M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€259M
€510M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,501M
€5,534M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4,101M
€4,727M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,652M
€1,606M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,418M
€4,151M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€24,600
€23,200
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
30,700 PPS
32,000 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€33,300
€34,700
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€66,409M
€16,352M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€8,444M
€2,573M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€150,675M
€39,199M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€4,096M
€3,698M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€337M
€249M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€6,982M
€6,287M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€6,306M
€5,852M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€23,133M
€23,961M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€87,079
€91,592
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€5,839M
€5,912M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
302,900
298,100
Self-employed persons
35,900
30,100
Employment in manufacturing (C)
45,500
41,900
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
77.4%
76.7%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
16.9%
10.2%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
7.1%
5.0%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
357,400
358,800
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
54,236
48,590
Enterprise births
7,013
6,262
Enterprise deaths
5,575
4,992
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.5%
6.2%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
3.0%
1.7%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
5.6%
3.8%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
2.2%
1.4%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
49.4%
41.0%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
60.1%
51.2%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
17.4%
14.5%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
34.0%
29.2%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
11.9%
10.0%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
95.6%
95.7%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
931,307
4,917,318
Mobility
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
13,801 kt
16,736 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
5,979
3,321
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
29 km/1000km²
36 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
770
431
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
68
36
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
2
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
460,155
475,311
Population aged 65+
184,198
172,043
Population aged under 15
131,976
123,419
Median age of population
43.7 yrs
44.5 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
40.0%
36.2%
Crude rate of total population change
1.2 /1k
-0.1 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.2 /1k
0.9 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.4 /1k
8.6 /1k
Crude death rate
10.4 /1k
9.6 /1k
Live births
7,304
6,633
Deaths
8,082
7,400
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
68.7%
62.2%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.71
1.56
Population density (persons per km²)
163 /km²
220 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
786,693
713,931
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
18.0%
17.0%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
84.2 yrs
82.9 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.0%
13.2%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
511 /100k
507 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
771 /100k
842 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
204 /100k
218 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.8 /100k
0.9 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
90.3 /100k
33.0 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
611 /100k
291 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,739 /100k
1,255 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
47 /M
38 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.46
1.46
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.27
1.27
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.02
1.02
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.39
1.39
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.02
0.02
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.107/kWh
€0.107/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.053/kWh
€0.053/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
363 m
251 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
28 days/yr
18 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
49 days/yr
53 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
4 days/yr