NUTS-3 PT1D1 · Portugal
Population
395,4742025
GDP
€8,049M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
5.2%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
78.8%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
2,235.2 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
PT1D1 · PT191
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Região de Aveiro (Opportunity 53). Runner-up: Oeste (49). Contrarian pick: Oeste — leads the set on Resilience (EU pctl 85).
Strengths
Industrial base (93) · Energy cost (90)
Red flags
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Região de Aveiro
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Digital readiness (EU pctl 5) — Oeste may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Região de Aveiro 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
48.5
52.5
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
85.3
75.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
40.0
44.0
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
72.7
45.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
33.0
27.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
55.0
70.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
71.8
80.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
1.9% 5y
1.3% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€20,354
€25,397
Population density
177 /km²
233 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 74 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€7,000M
€8,663M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€486M
€193M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,297M
€3,111M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,111M
€2,970M
GVA — construction (F)
€369M
€275M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,895M
€1,826M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€14,400
€14,500
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
25,000 PPS
31,200 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€20,500
€25,600
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€3,139M
€7,092M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€831M
€2,154M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€7,446M
€16,948M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€800M
€753M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€90M
€198M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,396M
€1,504M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,101M
€1,314M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
162,230
183,870
Self-employed persons
31,640
27,490
Employment in manufacturing (C)
26,590
59,440
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
77.1%
79.0%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
19.8%
19.0%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
47,883
46,543
Enterprise births
7,698
7,097
Enterprise deaths
5,488
5,567
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.1%
4.9%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
0.9%
2.0%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.0%
4.2%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
0.6%
1.8%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
28.5%
33.4%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
40.7%
46.4%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
16.0%
17.9%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
20.2%
23.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.7%
10.4%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
90.6%
88.3%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,233,841
1,190,260
Mobility
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
154
44
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
6,810 kt
7,334 kt
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
39
11
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
61
66
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
249,046
249,028
Population aged 65+
95,714
94,903
Population aged under 15
50,714
48,326
Median age of population
46.9 yrs
47.2 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
38.4%
38.1%
Crude rate of total population change
21.8 /1k
12.0 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
25.0 /1k
15.3 /1k
Crude birth rate
7.5 /1k
7.1 /1k
Crude death rate
10.7 /1k
10.3 /1k
Live births
3,026
2,791
Deaths
4,318
4,072
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
58.8%
57.5%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.39
1.26
Population density (persons per km²)
178 /km²
236 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
20.4%
19.9%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.4 yrs
83.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
17.2%
17.0%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
156 /100k
332 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
217 /100k
209 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.8 /100k
0.8 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
44.0 /100k
37.7 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
136 /100k
144 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
549 /100k
663 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
86 /M
80 /M
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.107/kWh
€0.107/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.045/kWh
€0.045/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
39 m
90 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
10 days/yr
21 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
4 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
21 days/yr