NUTS-3 FRH03 · France
Ille-et-Vilaine
Export region data (CSV)Ille-et-Vilaine generates €48bn of GDP across 1.1m residents. Its Opportunity Index of 63.3/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +4.1%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 6.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (76th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (33.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
63.3
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth65.6
Livability52.7
Market access41
Economic scale94
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)
74.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability94
Labour stability75
Diversification38
Demographic stability90
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)
28.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density43
Airport access1
Market access41
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)
74.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary80
Lifelong learning78
Knowledge workers79
Scientists & engineers62
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)
55
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.57.9 µg/m³
PM1014.1 µg/m³
NO212.9 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)
52.7
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy57
Jobs40.5
Education69.5
Health76
Safety36
Connectivity33.5
Environment56.3
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
65.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.6%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.9%
CAGR
Employment rate
+6.2 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: Finance · real estate · prof. · 30.2%Diversified · HHI 2321
Agriculture 1.8%Industry 12.9%Construction 6.4%Trade · transport · ICT 21.9%Finance · real estate · prof. 30.2%Public · health · education 26.8%
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 · 70 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€42,442M
2024 · EU pctl 94
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€752M
2024 · EU pctl 94
GVA — industry (B–E)
€5,484M
2024 · EU pctl 89
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4,513M
2024 · EU pctl 90
GVA — construction (F)
€2,729M
2024 · EU pctl 96
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€9,274M
2024 · EU pctl 94
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€23,600
2023 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
38,700 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 69
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€42,000
2024 · EU pctl 69
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€28,333M
2024 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,146M
2024 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€65,081M
2024 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€5,383M
2024 · EU pctl 93
GVA — information & communication (J)
€3,112M
2024 · EU pctl 92
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€12,838M
2024 · EU pctl 95
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€11,364M
2024 · EU pctl 96
Labour market
Employment, total persons
550,000
2024 · EU pctl 95
Self-employed persons
56,200
2024 · EU pctl 89
Employment in manufacturing (C)
53,300
2024 · EU pctl 89
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
75.7%
2025 · EU pctl 35 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
16.4%
2025 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
76,924
2023 · EU pctl 92
Enterprise births
10,365
2023 · EU pctl 95
Enterprise deaths
7,969
2023 · EU pctl 94
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.7%
2023 · EU pctl 96
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.7%
2023 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.0%
2025 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
42.9%
2025 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
48.9%
2025 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
16.1%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
28.0%
2025 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
9.3%
2025 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
93.6%
2025 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
5,665,322
2025 · EU pctl 89
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
630 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
3,846
CURRENT · EU pctl 93
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
338
CURRENT · EU pctl 43
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
208
CURRENT · EU pctl 99
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
CURRENT · EU pctl 0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
724,072
2025 · EU pctl 95
Population aged 65+
220,281
2025 · EU pctl 94
Population aged under 15
194,516
2025 · EU pctl 96
Median age of population
40.2 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 5
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
30.4%
2025 · EU pctl 15
Crude rate of total population change
7.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 87
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Crude birth rate
9.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 90
Crude death rate
8.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 6
Live births
10,702
2024 · EU pctl 95
Deaths
9,153
2024 · EU pctl 93
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
57.3%
2025 · EU pctl 36
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.49
2024 · EU pctl 69
Population density (persons per km²)
167 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 59
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
14.8%
2025 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.5 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
548 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
849 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
224 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 52
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
57.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
444 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,515 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
49 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
38 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 12
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 39
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
18 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 13
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 46
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 42
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
13
2024 · EU pctl 53
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
58
2024 · EU pctl 69
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