NUTS-3 ITF43 · Italy
Population
550,4362025
GDP
€12,392M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
10%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
55.2%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
2,456 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
ITF43 · ITI45
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Frosinone (Opportunity 50). Runner-up: Taranto (41). Contrarian pick: Taranto — leads the set on Cost advantage (EU pctl 70).
Strengths
Demographic outlook (69) · Digital readiness (68)
Red flags
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Long-run slide: down 22 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
#2Taranto
Strengths
Cost advantage (70) · Energy cost (46)
Red flags
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Talent & skills (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Frosinone
Labour market (EU bottom 15%); Long-run slide: down 22 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute). Its weakest dimension is Labour market (EU pctl 11) — Taranto may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Frosinone 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
41.3
49.8
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
28.8
43.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
28.3
44.2
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
26.0
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
22.0
48.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
12.0
40.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
44.8
38.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.4% 5y
2.5% 5y
Population
0.5% 5y
0.6% 5y
Unemployment rate
1.5% 5y
10.5% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€22,512
€27,356
Population density
224 /km²
142 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 88 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€11,132M
€11,370M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€397M
€218M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,358M
€2,413M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€898M
€2,126M
GVA — construction (F)
€617M
€975M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,307M
€2,343M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€17,200
€22,800
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
23,200 PPS
28,200 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€22,300
€27,100
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€21,133M
€50,148M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,693M
€4,606M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€36,660M
€95,178M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,479M
€1,803M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€126M
€132M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,762M
€3,064M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,690M
€2,354M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€11,260M
€11,502M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€65,410
€76,239
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€2,886M
€2,670M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
195,400
169,700
Self-employed persons
44,800
41,500
Employment in manufacturing (C)
25,500
28,800
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
56.8%
68.0%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
32.6%
21.3%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
10.0%
5.5%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
203,000
202,600
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
31,938
32,791
Enterprise births
2,642
2,720
Enterprise deaths
1,867
1,906
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.5%
4.6%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
0.8%
1.8%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
2.6%
7.9%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
0.8%
1.7%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
18.5%
28.5%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
27.8%
37.4%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
8.2%
10.6%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
17.2%
23.0%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
4.6%
6.3%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
91.5%
96.3%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,653,545
1,418,562
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
649 /1k
701 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
5,742 kt
6,412 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
31
3,009
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
6
650
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
16 km/1000km²
29 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
73
84
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
345,506
289,019
Population aged 65+
141,126
120,155
Population aged under 15
63,804
53,487
Median age of population
49.2 yrs
49.5 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
40.8%
41.6%
Crude rate of total population change
-5.6 /1k
-4.6 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-0.3 /1k
1.4 /1k
Crude birth rate
5.8 /1k
5.8 /1k
Crude death rate
11.1 /1k
11.8 /1k
Live births
3,215
2,687
Deaths
6,135
5,474
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.3%
60.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.12
1.09
Population density (persons per km²)
226 /km²
143 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
337,147
363,713
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
35.0%
20.7%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
83.5 yrs
83.6 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
27.6%
17.9%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
274 /100k
350 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
946 /100k
907 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
211 /100k
226 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
0.6 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
19.7 /100k
14.3 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
790 /100k
577 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
62 /M
56 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.72
0.72
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.60
0.60
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
0.57
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
0.57
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.41
0.41
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.159/kWh
€0.159/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.048/kWh
€0.048/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
9 m
324 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
70 days/yr
54 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
30 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
17 days/yr