NUTS-3 NO094 · Norway
Population
177,8632025
GDP
—
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
4.6%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
75.5%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
—
Area
15,342.1 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
NO094 · DE114
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Göppingen (Opportunity 61). Runner-up: Telemark (37). Contrarian pick: Telemark — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 100).
Strengths
Labour market (85) · Industrial base (84)
Red flags
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%)
Long-run slide: down 18 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
Why you might not pick Göppingen
Cost advantage (EU bottom 15%); Long-run slide: down 18 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute). Its weakest dimension is Cost advantage (EU pctl 6) — Telemark may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Göppingen · Manufacturing → Göppingen · Office → Telemark · Residential → Göppingen.
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
37.3
60.8
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
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61.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
64.5
70.8
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
48.3
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
41.3
71.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
79.5
60.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
36.3
26.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
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0.3% 5y
Population
0.5% 5y
0.1% 5y
Unemployment rate
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1.6% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
—
€37,560
Population density
12 /km²
405 /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)
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€8,879M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
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€62M
GVA — industry (B–E)
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€2,649M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
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€2,449M
GVA — construction (F)
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€763M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
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€1,638M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€25,500
€30,800
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
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33,500 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
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€37,600
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€8,238M
€60,881M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€632M
€22,211M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€17,442M
€139,588M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
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€2,002M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
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€1,765M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
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€8,426M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
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€86,167
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
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€2,150M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
—
118,770
Self-employed persons
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10,710
Employment in manufacturing (C)
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29,840
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
76.6%
82.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
13.4%
6.9%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
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3.6%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
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143,100
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
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9,788
Enterprise births
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841
Enterprise deaths
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888
3-year enterprise survival rate
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4.4%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.7%
7.3%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
3.2%
5.8%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.1%
4.9%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
43.8%
38.0%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
50.6%
43.1%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
20.5%
9.0%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
29.1%
26.4%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.7%
11.3%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
100.0%
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Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,236,967
493,394
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
533 /1k
636 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
5,633 kt
5,729 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
3,322
1,210
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,868
468
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
6 km/1000km²
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Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
101
38
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
2
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
110,463
161,900
Population aged 65+
40,387
58,779
Population aged under 15
27,013
38,130
Median age of population
44.7 yrs
45.5 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
36.6%
36.3%
Crude rate of total population change
4.3 /1k
-1.6 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.2 /1k
1.7 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.0 /1k
8.6 /1k
Crude death rate
9.9 /1k
12.0 /1k
Live births
1,428
2,231
Deaths
1,757
3,107
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
61.0%
59.9%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.41
1.51
Population density (persons per km²)
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404 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
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264,734
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
18.9%
17.1%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.8 yrs
82.3 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
13.5%
12.6%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
263 /100k
—
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
841 /100k
938 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
218 /100k
199 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
0.4 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
27.1 /100k
23.1 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
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186 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,712 /100k
755 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
13 /M
27 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
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1.78
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
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1.56
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
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1.58
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
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1.82
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
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0.53
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.064/kWh
€0.161/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
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€0.055/kWh
Housing market
Dwelling price per m² (NOK, all types, Statistics Norway)
27,216 NOK/m²
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Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
267 m
556 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
7 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
142 days/yr
77 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
11 days/yr
6 days/yr