NUTS-3 FRY50 · France
Population
329,2082025
GDP
€3,786M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
24.9%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
36.9%2025
Active firms
33,7492026
Cadastral parcels
83,4632026
Area
369.3 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
FRY50 · ES640
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Mayotte (Opportunity 28). Runner-up: Melilla (16). Contrarian pick: Melilla — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 95).
#1Mayotte
Strengths
Demographic outlook (99) · Cost advantage (96)
Red flags
Economic base (EU bottom 15%)
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Talent & skills (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Quality of life (EU bottom 15%)
#2Melilla
Strengths
Energy cost (95) · Demographic outlook (83)
Red flags
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Long-run slide: down 12 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
Why you might not pick Mayotte
Economic base (EU bottom 15%); Labour market (EU bottom 15%); Talent & skills (EU bottom 15%); Industrial base (EU bottom 15%); Quality of life (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Economic base (EU pctl 0) — Melilla may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Mayotte · Manufacturing → Mayotte · Office → Melilla · Residential → Mayotte .
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
27.8
16.4
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
43.5
35.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
13.6
43.1
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
27.0
30.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
37.3
35.5
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
0.0
40.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
74.6
17.6
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
5.2% 5y
2.6% 5y
Population
3.3% 5y
0.1% 5y
Unemployment rate
10.6% 5y
0.8% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€11,500
€20,140
Population density
891 /km²
7,404 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
254
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
103
FR-only
All indicators · 88 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€3,760M
€1,699M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€140M
€1M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€239M
€58M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€118M
€17M
GVA — construction (F)
€174M
€85M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€637M
€332M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€8,500
€14,900
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
12,000 PPS
23,000 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€13,100
€20,500
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€888M
€387M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€36M
€1M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€2,337M
€1,117M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€344M
—
GVA — information & communication (J)
€55M
—
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€592M
€375M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,979M
€848M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€3,369M
€1,649M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€68,537
€56,124
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€903M
€439M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
56,300
33,300
Self-employed persons
9,000
4,300
Employment in manufacturing (C)
1,200
200
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
40.4%
63.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
40.2%
60.2%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
15.8%
24.7%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
757,300
37,200
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
3,568
4,751
Enterprise births
1,922
495
Enterprise deaths
285
478
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.5%
4.4%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
—
0.4%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
—
0.4%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
11.5%
30.0%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
14.3%
42.2%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
2.6%
11.5%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
11.3%
22.0%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
2.2%
4.2%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
—
97.5%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
135,824
133,821
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
85 /1k
615 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
—
150 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
52
—
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
0 km/1000km²
0 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
16
—
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
15
35
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
176,342
58,987
Population aged 65+
8,801
11,039
Population aged under 15
144,065
17,041
Median age of population
18.1 yrs
36.7 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
5.0%
18.7%
Crude rate of total population change
26.4 /1k
12.5 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.0 /1k
8.3 /1k
Crude birth rate
27.4 /1k
9.2 /1k
Crude death rate
3.1 /1k
5.0 /1k
Live births
8,908
795
Deaths
1,011
434
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
86.7%
47.6%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
3.51
1.36
Population density (persons per km²)
890 /km²
6,180 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
782,043
94,454
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
—
43.7%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
74.5 yrs
83.3 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
—
39.3%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
147 /100k
193 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
2,108 /100k
1,062 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
200 /100k
206 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
5.6 /100k
0.0 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
345 /100k
123 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
202 /100k
119 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
903 /100k
315 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
24 /M
11 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.46
1.14
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.27
0.84
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.02
0.96
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.39
0.78
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.02
0.16
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.107/kWh
€0.106/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.053/kWh
€0.048/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
116 m
51 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
22 days/yr
21 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
0 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
9 days/yr
2 days/yr