NUTS-3 FRY20 · France
Population
359,4192025
GDP
€10,480M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
13.4%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
67.4%2025
Active firms
124,2682026
Cadastral parcels
222,3592026
Area
1,112.4 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
FRY20 · ITI12
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Lucca (Opportunity 59). Runner-up: Martinique (32). Contrarian pick: Martinique — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 88).
#1Lucca
Strengths
Industrial base (77) · Connectivity (72)
Red flags
Flood: 22% of population in the 100-year floodplain
Strengths
Energy cost (88) · Connectivity (67)
Red flags
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%)
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Lucca
Flood: 22% of population in the 100-year floodplain. Its weakest dimension is Governance (EU pctl 20) — Martinique may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Lucca 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
31.6
58.8
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
38.0
48.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
32.5
54.0
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
40.7
—
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
67.0
72.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
28.0
23.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
27.8
56.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.2% 5y
3.8% 5y
Population
0.1% 5y
0.1% 5y
Unemployment rate
1.6% 5y
9.5% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€29,158
€36,463
Population density
323 /km²
215 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
619
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
346
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€9,806M
€12,493M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€246M
€131M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€926M
€3,376M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€314M
€3,087M
GVA — construction (F)
€356M
€832M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,142M
€2,711M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€20,600
€23,000
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
27,500 PPS
37,800 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€29,900
€36,400
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€1,601M
€29,682M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€88M
€5,009M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€6,464M
€51,756M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,073M
€1,742M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€447M
€201M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,225M
€3,370M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,912M
€2,075M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€9,658M
€12,702M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€70,499
€83,985
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€1,627M
€3,004M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
151,500
168,300
Self-employed persons
17,000
44,200
Employment in manufacturing (C)
6,800
31,700
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
70.8%
73.7%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
45.0%
15.1%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
13.4%
4.3%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
151,600
181,600
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
43,005
35,280
Enterprise births
7,591
2,339
Enterprise deaths
3,915
1,975
3-year enterprise survival rate
8.5%
3.6%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
—
1.4%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
—
3.7%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
—
1.5%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
31.9%
23.8%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
37.8%
30.8%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
9.3%
11.7%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
20.1%
17.4%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
4.4%
4.9%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
91.3%
96.6%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,132,780
5,181,703
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
540 /1k
744 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
5,760
4,457
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
—
9,292 kt
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
0 km/1000km²
23 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,603
1,169
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
5
38
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
3
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
213,477
237,110
Population aged 65+
92,582
103,777
Population aged under 15
53,360
40,503
Median age of population
50.3 yrs
51.4 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
43.4%
43.8%
Crude rate of total population change
-2.2 /1k
-1.1 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.2 /1k
6.2 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.1 /1k
5.3 /1k
Crude death rate
10.5 /1k
12.6 /1k
Live births
2,898
2,007
Deaths
3,793
4,794
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
68.4%
60.8%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.54
1.08
Population density (persons per km²)
327 /km²
218 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
234,325
306,435
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
31.3%
18.1%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.5 yrs
84.2 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
25.2%
12.8%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
496 /100k
285 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,075 /100k
848 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
188 /100k
209 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
8.1 /100k
0.3 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
138 /100k
35.3 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
430 /100k
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Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,359 /100k
1,382 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
67 /M
51 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.46
0.72
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.27
0.60
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.02
0.57
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.39
0.57
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.02
0.41
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.107/kWh
€0.159/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.053/kWh
€0.048/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
50 m
770 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
10 days/yr
5 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
65 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
7 days/yr
27 days/yr