NUTS-3 NL127 · Netherlands
Population
329,9732025
GDP
€14,397M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
82.9%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
1,545.3 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
NL127 · NL365
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Oost-Zuid-Holland (Opportunity 76). Runner-up: Noord-Friesland (63). Contrarian pick: Noord-Friesland — leads the set on Digital readiness (EU pctl 97).
Strengths
Digital readiness (94) · Talent & skills (93)
Red flags
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Flood: 55% of population in the 100-year floodplain
Why you might not pick Oost-Zuid-Holland
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%); Flood: 55% of population in the 100-year floodplain. Its weakest dimension is Industrial base (EU pctl 14) — Noord-Friesland may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Oost-Zuid-Holland 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
63.2
76.2
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
62.5
89.5
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
61.3
69.6
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
83.3
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
55.0
73.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
79.3
93.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
54.6
61.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
0.6% 5y
1.0% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€43,629
€44,565
Population density
214 /km²
679 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 70 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€12,920M
€14,072M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€461M
€471M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,009M
€1,277M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,270M
€1,142M
GVA — construction (F)
€759M
€1,335M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,266M
€3,730M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€24,800
€26,500
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
37,500 PPS
38,400 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€43,800
€44,800
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€6,262M
€47,953M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€616M
€3,533M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€13,205M
€103,312M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€972M
€1,353M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€300M
€495M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,251M
€3,500M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,881M
€2,672M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
166,600
164,800
Self-employed persons
32,600
33,700
Employment in manufacturing (C)
12,200
9,800
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
85.6%
84.3%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
7.6%
11.4%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
35,353
42,109
Enterprise births
3,044
3,608
Enterprise deaths
1,581
1,973
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.5%
6.4%
Innovation & R&D
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
2.6%
5.4%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
38.6%
47.3%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
48.1%
56.7%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
24.1%
26.5%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
27.6%
33.0%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
10.5%
13.2%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
99.6%
99.2%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
4,093,770
771,561
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
545 /1k
440 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,256
896
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
8,441 kt
9,686 kt
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
381
255
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
63 km/1000km²
134 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
51
22
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)
207,386
220,377
Population aged 65+
73,953
73,906
Population aged under 15
48,634
57,563
Median age of population
43.7 yrs
42.5 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.7%
33.5%
Crude rate of total population change
3.8 /1k
9.3 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.5 /1k
7.0 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.5 /1k
11.1 /1k
Crude death rate
10.3 /1k
8.7 /1k
Live births
2,814
3,888
Deaths
3,398
3,055
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.1%
59.7%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.46
1.77
Population density (persons per km²)
231 /km²
708 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
14.9%
17.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
81.7 yrs
82.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.4%
14.0%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,018 /100k
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Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
239 /100k
239 /100k
Safety & crime
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
53 /M
28 /M
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.142/kWh
€0.142/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.039/kWh
€0.039/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
-1 m
-1 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
3 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
27 days/yr
29 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
3 days/yr