NUTS-3 NL32B · Netherlands
Population
1,480,8142025
GDP
€172,452M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
84.4%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
898.1 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
NL32B · NL350
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Groot-Amsterdam (Opportunity 85). Runner-up: Utrecht (83). Contrarian pick: Utrecht — leads the set on Labour market (EU pctl 99).
Strengths
Economic base (99) · Talent & skills (97)
Red flags
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Groot-Amsterdam
Industrial base (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Industrial base (EU pctl 4) — Utrecht may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Utrecht · Manufacturing → Utrecht · Office → Groot-Amsterdam · Residential → Groot-Amsterdam.
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
84.6
83.2
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
54.0
81.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
73.0
73.4
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
39.7
42.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
73.3
68.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
96.5
98.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
70.4
62.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
1.0% 5y
0.8% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€116,458
€75,408
Population density
1,649 /km²
902 /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)
€154,765M
€95,362M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€365M
€481M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€8,462M
€6,486M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€5,722M
€5,601M
GVA — construction (F)
€3,265M
€4,443M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€45,776M
€23,401M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€28,000
€28,600
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
101,600 PPS
64,900 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€118,500
€75,600
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€41,901M
€18,985M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€3,039M
€1,324M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€104,822M
€47,561M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€10,391M
€6,857M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€15,041M
€8,198M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€66,831M
€30,622M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€21,874M
€23,003M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
1,137,900
903,100
Self-employed persons
162,700
135,600
Employment in manufacturing (C)
34,900
40,000
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
86.4%
87.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
8.8%
9.5%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
276,005
200,842
Enterprise births
29,147
18,550
Enterprise deaths
14,327
9,529
3-year enterprise survival rate
7.5%
6.7%
Innovation & R&D
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
6.8%
8.1%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
52.2%
58.2%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
62.6%
66.2%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
27.4%
28.3%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
36.5%
40.0%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
14.0%
16.1%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
99.2%
99.6%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
27,583,942
4,626,106
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
428 /1k
560 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
24,809 kt
29,282 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
2,854
3,535
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
108 km/1000km²
124 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
193
251
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
14
37
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
4
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
1,035,513
920,570
Population aged 65+
238,358
259,611
Population aged under 15
206,943
228,963
Median age of population
38.2 yrs
40.0 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
23.0%
28.2%
Crude rate of total population change
5.4 /1k
6.5 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.7 /1k
4.3 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.8 /1k
10.4 /1k
Crude death rate
7.1 /1k
8.2 /1k
Live births
14,502
14,601
Deaths
10,486
11,551
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
43.0%
53.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.18
1.47
Population density (persons per km²)
1,985 /km²
938 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
16.9%
15.8%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.1 yrs
82.4 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
14.8%
12.3%
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
990 /100k
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Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
244 /100k
237 /100k
Safety & crime
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
27 /M
35 /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)
3 m
4 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
3 days/yr
4 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
28 days/yr
31 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
2 days/yr