NUTS-3 ITF45 · Italy
Population
764,4912025
GDP
€16,848M2023
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
2,762 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
ITF45 · ITC16
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Cuneo (Opportunity 58). Runner-up: Lecce (44). Contrarian pick: Lecce — leads the set on Cost advantage (EU pctl 70).
#1Cuneo
Strengths
Industrial base (83) · Economic base (77)
Red flags
Long-run slide: down 14 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
#2Lecce
Strengths
Cost advantage (70) · Growth momentum (54)
Red flags
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Talent & skills (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Cuneo
Long-run slide: down 14 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute). Its weakest dimension is Talent & skills (EU pctl 18) — Lecce may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Cuneo 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
43.9
58.4
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
36.0
48.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
29.3
47.9
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
30.7
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
28.7
33.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
12.0
18.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
54.2
51.6
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
3.6% 5y
3.1% 5y
Population
0.5% 5y
0.2% 5y
Unemployment rate
8.4% 5y
4.6% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€22,038
€40,411
Population density
277 /km²
84 /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)
€15,135M
€21,111M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€363M
€885M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,831M
€6,268M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,470M
€5,811M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,207M
€1,445M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,572M
€3,773M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€17,200
€24,400
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
22,700 PPS
42,000 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€21,900
€40,400
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€21,133M
€44,851M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,693M
€10,323M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€36,660M
€61,911M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,160M
€2,619M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€237M
€298M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€4,257M
€5,732M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,905M
€3,010M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€15,309M
€21,532M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€62,062
€83,787
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€3,923M
€6,730M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
280,000
284,900
Self-employed persons
78,700
75,700
Employment in manufacturing (C)
30,500
63,900
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
56.8%
73.5%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
32.6%
19.3%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
10.0%
6.0%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
279,800
272,600
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
59,163
47,245
Enterprise births
4,782
2,853
Enterprise deaths
3,365
2,567
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.4%
3.5%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
0.8%
2.1%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
2.6%
3.6%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
0.8%
1.6%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
18.5%
21.2%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
27.8%
29.3%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
8.2%
10.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
17.2%
16.0%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
4.6%
5.0%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
91.5%
93.9%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
7,496,488
2,325,452
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
649 /1k
723 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
2,811 kt
23,612 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
358
489
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
47
84
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
16 km/1000km²
36 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
59
83
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
2
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
476,361
362,111
Population aged 65+
202,877
147,724
Population aged under 15
85,253
71,691
Median age of population
50.0 yrs
49.0 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
42.6%
40.8%
Crude rate of total population change
-3.6 /1k
-0.2 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.6 /1k
5.0 /1k
Crude birth rate
5.9 /1k
6.6 /1k
Crude death rate
12.1 /1k
11.8 /1k
Live births
4,520
3,832
Deaths
9,256
6,850
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
60.5%
60.6%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.13
1.27
Population density (persons per km²)
275 /km²
85 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
542,247
562,913
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
35.0%
16.9%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
83.5 yrs
83.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
27.6%
14.0%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
274 /100k
353 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
946 /100k
892 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
211 /100k
228 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.5 /100k
0.2 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
12.5 /100k
14.3 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
796 /100k
549 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
62 /M
40 /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)
89 m
465 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
69 days/yr
20 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
74 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
7 days/yr
14 days/yr