NUTS-3 PT196 · Portugal
Population
210,6572025
GDP
€3,959M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
5%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
80.5%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
—
Area
6,311.7 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
PT196 · FI1DA
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Beiras e Serra da Estrela (Opportunity 39). Runner-up: Etelä-Savo (27). Contrarian pick: Etelä-Savo — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 99).
Strengths
Air quality (93) · Energy cost (90)
Red flags
Connectivity (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Beiras e Serra da Estrela
Connectivity (EU bottom 15%); Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%); Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Freight intensity (EU pctl 2) — Etelä-Savo may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Etelä-Savo · Manufacturing → Etelä-Savo · Office → Etelä-Savo · Residential → Beiras e Serra da Estrela.
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
39.1
26.6
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
72.5
60.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
51.1
56.1
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
92.5
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Connectivitytransit + air + market access
14.7
37.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
70.0
63.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
64.4
15.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
0.2% 5y
0.7% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€18,793
€38,628
Population density
33 /km²
8 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 78 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€3,443M
€4,371M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€147M
€510M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€618M
€801M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€449M
€670M
GVA — construction (F)
€141M
€191M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€701M
€586M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€14,500
€21,800
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
22,900 PPS
32,100 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€18,800
€38,500
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€7,092M
€13,860M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€2,154M
€3,205M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€16,948M
€24,815M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€353M
€730M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€87M
€52M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€642M
€1,047M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€963M
€1,235M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
86,460
55,110
Self-employed persons
18,780
6,870
Employment in manufacturing (C)
11,850
7,790
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
79.0%
77.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
19.0%
20.9%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
21,506
9,366
Enterprise births
2,583
672
Enterprise deaths
2,293
727
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.8%
4.5%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.0%
2.8%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.2%
4.8%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.8%
1.9%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
33.4%
39.2%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
46.4%
34.5%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
17.9%
26.4%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
23.5%
26.7%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
10.4%
8.9%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
88.3%
97.4%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,062,254
630,122
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
—
727 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
1,095 kt
8,703 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
42
1,082
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
20
836
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
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1 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
142
89
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
119,569
70,613
Population aged 65+
70,850
43,892
Population aged under 15
20,238
14,871
Median age of population
53.9 yrs
54.1 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
59.3%
62.2%
Crude rate of total population change
6.4 /1k
-4.1 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
17.0 /1k
6.4 /1k
Crude birth rate
5.6 /1k
5.0 /1k
Crude death rate
16.2 /1k
15.5 /1k
Live births
1,199
648
Deaths
3,450
2,011
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
76.2%
83.2%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.26
1.15
Population density (persons per km²)
33 /km²
12 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
19.9%
17.9%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
83.0 yrs
81.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
17.0%
15.2%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
332 /100k
283 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
—
976 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
209 /100k
197 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.5 /100k
0.8 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
16.2 /100k
28.5 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
85.3 /100k
169 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
390 /100k
1,487 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
80 /M
38 /M
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.107/kWh
€0.067/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.045/kWh
€0.065/kWh
Housing market
Dwelling price per m² — old housing-company dwellings (Statistics Finland)
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€1,108/m²
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
992 m
96 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
19 days/yr
1 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
40 days/yr
157 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
7 days/yr
1 days/yr