NUTS-3 FRY30 · France
Population
297,4552025
GDP
€5,244M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
16.9%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
50%2025
Active firms
50,5262026
Cadastral parcels
80,8982026
Area
83,770.7 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
FRY30 · DE711
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Darmstadt, Kreisfreie Stadt (Opportunity 68). Runner-up: Guyane (18). Contrarian pick: Guyane — leads the set on Demographic outlook (EU pctl 99).
Strengths
Economic base (98) · Connectivity (75)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
#2Guyane
Strengths
Demographic outlook (99) · Energy cost (88)
Red flags
Economic base (EU bottom 15%)
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Talent & skills (EU bottom 15%)
Connectivity (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Quality of life (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Darmstadt, Kreisfreie Stadt
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%); Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Cost advantage (EU pctl 10) — Guyane may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Darmstadt, Kreisfreie Stadt 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
18.1
68.2
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
55.5
72.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
14.9
61.0
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
41.7
49.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
12.7
75.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
8.0
62.8
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
23.6
45.8
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
0.3% 5y
0.5% 5y
Population
0.8% 5y
0.9% 5y
Unemployment rate
1.0% 5y
1.6% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€17,628
€92,303
Population density
4 /km²
1,354 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
272
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
170
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€5,017M
€14,082M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€224M
€9M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€414M
€3,502M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€150M
€3,106M
GVA — construction (F)
€360M
€255M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€703M
€3,489M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€12,000
€30,100
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
16,300 PPS
84,000 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€17,700
€94,200
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€1,517M
€49,287M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€32M
€7,586M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€3,233M
€137,102M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€519M
—
GVA — information & communication (J)
€179M
—
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,289M
€3,619M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,027M
€3,208M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€4,968M
€13,726M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€66,798
€115,726
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€1,541M
€3,001M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
80,000
141,810
Self-employed persons
6,200
8,160
Employment in manufacturing (C)
3,300
17,860
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
50.9%
78.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
33.6%
6.3%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
16.9%
3.5%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
81,500
93,700
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
11,086
6,623
Enterprise births
2,203
603
Enterprise deaths
1,459
604
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.3%
5.0%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
—
3.4%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
—
7.5%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
—
2.4%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
21.7%
37.9%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
18.9%
43.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
5.8%
10.5%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
19.1%
26.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
3.4%
9.8%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
87.9%
—
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
417,814
780,787
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
228 /1k
612 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
514
621
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
—
2,150 kt
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
173
372
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
0 km/1000km²
—
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
123
19
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
184,223
115,957
Population aged 65+
22,891
29,013
Population aged under 15
90,341
22,059
Median age of population
27.5 yrs
38.0 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
12.4%
25.0%
Crude rate of total population change
4.4 /1k
13.2 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-14.7 /1k
12.9 /1k
Crude birth rate
23.1 /1k
8.6 /1k
Crude death rate
4.0 /1k
8.3 /1k
Live births
6,849
1,421
Deaths
1,191
1,369
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
61.5%
44.0%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
3.10
1.15
Population density (persons per km²)
4 /km²
1,360 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
591,746
155,062
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
54.8%
21.1%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
80.1 yrs
82.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
50.7%
16.4%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
318 /100k
—
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,167 /100k
974 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
170 /100k
229 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
15.2 /100k
1.2 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
435 /100k
71.6 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
488 /100k
508 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,639 /100k
2,243 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
114 /M
27 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.46
1.78
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.27
1.56
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.02
1.58
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.39
1.82
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.02
0.53
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.107/kWh
€0.161/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.053/kWh
€0.055/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
187 m
154 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
146 days/yr
15 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
52 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
31 days/yr
3 days/yr