NUTS-3 FRE23 · France
Somme
Export region data (CSV)Somme generates €19bn of GDP across 562.2k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 61.7/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and market access. Its economy has grown +3.8%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 6.6pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (69th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (20.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
61.7
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth48.4
Livability45.2
Market access73
Economic scale80
Equal-weighted mean of four EU-percentile pillars (deliberately orthogonal: growth=trend, livability=quality, market=distance-weighted demand proxy, scale=absolute GDP). Experimental — a screening triage, not investment advice.
Resilience Index · downside / risk lens (experimental)
58.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability89
Labour stability56
Diversification58
Demographic stability31
Inverse of GDP-growth & unemployment volatility (since 2008, incl. 2009/2020 shocks), economic diversification (inverse HHI) and population stability — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher withstands downturns better. Experimental.
Connectivity Index · transit · air · market access (experimental)
63
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density72
Airport access44
Market access73
Public-transport stop density, proximity to a major airport, and gravity access to surrounding economic mass — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = better-connected. Experimental.
Talent & Human Capital Index · skills base (experimental)
50.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary43
Lifelong learning57
Knowledge workers56
Scientists & engineers45
Young tertiary attainment (25–34), adult lifelong learning, knowledge-worker share and scientists & engineers — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = deeper talent pool. Experimental.
Clean-Air Score · air-quality livability (experimental)
67.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.5 µg/m³
PM1011.6 µg/m³
NO29.6 µg/m³
PM2.5, PM10 & NO2 annual means from official monitoring networks, inverted (lower pollution = higher) and EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = cleaner air; ground-level ozone is shown separately. Experimental.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
45.2
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy41
Jobs20.5
Education48
Health54
Safety38
Connectivity46
Environment69
Equal-weighted percentile across 6 pillars vs all EU NUTS-3; lower-is-better indicators (crime, unemployment, mortality) inverted. Experimental — regional screening only.
Growth momentum · trend analytics
48.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.8%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.1 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.2%
CAGR
Employment rate
+6.6 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.1 pp
5-yr change
Compound annual growth to the latest available year vs all EU NUTS-3; GDP is nominal EUR (“vs country avg” removes most national inflation). Screening signal, not a forecast.
Economic structure · gross value added by sector
Dominant: Public · health · education · 30.3%Diversified · HHI 2207
Agriculture 4.6%Industry 17.8%Construction 5%Trade · transport · ICT 17.2%Finance · real estate · prof. 25.1%Public · health · education 30.3%
Share of total GVA (latest year). HHI = sum of squared sector shares ×10,000; higher means a more concentrated, single-sector-dependent economy (more cyclicality risk).
All indicators · 69 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€17,389M
2024 · EU pctl 80
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€796M
2024 · EU pctl 95
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,097M
2024 · EU pctl 73
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,709M
2024 · EU pctl 76
GVA — construction (F)
€877M
2024 · EU pctl 76
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,986M
2024 · EU pctl 76
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€21,900
2023 · EU pctl 37 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
31,800 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 45
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€34,600
2024 · EU pctl 49
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€13,339M
2024 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,885M
2024 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€30,350M
2024 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,329M
2024 · EU pctl 79
GVA — information & communication (J)
€252M
2024 · EU pctl 61
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€4,359M
2024 · EU pctl 81
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€5,275M
2024 · EU pctl 88
Labour market
Employment, total persons
228,300
2024 · EU pctl 77
Self-employed persons
21,900
2024 · EU pctl 60
Employment in manufacturing (C)
28,200
2024 · EU pctl 69
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
73.1%
2025 · EU pctl 22 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
28.2%
2025 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
29,563
2023 · EU pctl 73
Enterprise births
4,035
2023 · EU pctl 81
Enterprise deaths
3,085
2023 · EU pctl 78
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.5%
2023 · EU pctl 94
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.4%
2023 · EU pctl 44 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
2.8%
2025 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
35.5%
2025 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
38.3%
2025 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
11.0%
2025 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
24.6%
2025 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
8.0%
2025 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
92.8%
2025 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,241,232
2025 · EU pctl 79
Mobility
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
3,623
CURRENT · EU pctl 92
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
645
CURRENT · EU pctl 72
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
60
CURRENT · EU pctl 56
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
345,737
2025 · EU pctl 80
Population aged 65+
125,758
2025 · EU pctl 83
Population aged under 15
90,684
2025 · EU pctl 84
Median age of population
43.0 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 18
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
36.4%
2025 · EU pctl 49
Crude rate of total population change
-3.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 24
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-1.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 8
Crude birth rate
8.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 80
Crude death rate
10.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 32
Live births
5,026
2024 · EU pctl 86
Deaths
5,979
2024 · EU pctl 81
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
62.6%
2025 · EU pctl 71
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.52
2024 · EU pctl 75
Population density (persons per km²)
92 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 37
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
19.1%
2025 · EU pctl 44 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.6 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
555 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
977 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 40 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
244 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 29
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
56.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
328 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 72
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,688 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 86
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
54 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
111 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 31
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 34
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
34 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 24
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 20
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12
2024 · EU pctl 16
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
10
2024 · EU pctl 30
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
51
2024 · EU pctl 32
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