NUTS-3 PT1D2 · Portugal
Population
218,4672025
GDP
€4,602M2024
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
2,702.9 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
PT1D2 · PT194
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Viseu Dão Lafões (Opportunity 46). Runner-up: Médio Tejo (37). Contrarian pick: Médio Tejo — leads the set on Resilience (EU pctl 84).
Strengths
Air quality (99) · Energy cost (90)
Red flags
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Viseu Dão Lafões
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%); Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Digital readiness (EU pctl 5) — Médio Tejo may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Viseu Dão Lafões 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
36.9
46.0
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
83.8
83.0
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
32.6
52.2
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
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99.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
18.7
19.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
55.0
70.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
62.8
73.8
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
0.7% 5y
0.5% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€21,065
€20,661
Population density
81 /km²
80 /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)
€4,002M
€4,664M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€150M
€211M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€785M
€1,051M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€607M
€931M
GVA — construction (F)
€200M
€309M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€940M
€953M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€14,400
€14,500
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
25,700 PPS
25,200 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€21,200
€20,800
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)
€405M
€453M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€75M
€56M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€710M
€891M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€921M
€1,011M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
85,130
114,260
Self-employed persons
11,830
22,220
Employment in manufacturing (C)
13,590
19,140
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)
23,357
27,789
Enterprise births
3,253
3,909
Enterprise deaths
2,570
3,098
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.6%
4.8%
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)
1,663,513
693,695
Mobility
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
33
21
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
3,207 kt
2,398 kt
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
15
8
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
108
90
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)
131,006
155,467
Population aged 65+
62,731
75,339
Population aged under 15
24,730
28,784
Median age of population
50.4 yrs
50.0 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
47.9%
48.5%
Crude rate of total population change
18.2 /1k
12.7 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
25.2 /1k
19.3 /1k
Crude birth rate
6.9 /1k
6.4 /1k
Crude death rate
13.9 /1k
13.0 /1k
Live births
1,542
1,686
Deaths
3,101
3,430
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
66.8%
67.0%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.42
1.28
Population density (persons per km²)
81 /km²
80 /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
1.4 /100k
0.4 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
62.8 /100k
23.4 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
174 /100k
95.8 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
600 /100k
369 /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)
27 m
498 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
67 days/yr
38 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
8 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
7 days/yr
15 days/yr