NUTS-3 FRJ13 · France
Hérault
Export region data (CSV)Hérault generates €46bn of GDP across 1.3m residents. Its Opportunity Index of 58.2/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +4.5%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 3.6pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (80th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (13th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
58.2
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth58.8
Livability41
Market access39
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)
59.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability89
Labour stability39
Diversification17
Demographic stability94
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)
49
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density49
Airport access59
Market access39
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)
67
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary78
Lifelong learning68
Knowledge workers80
Scientists & engineers42
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)
22.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.59.7 µg/m³
PM1018.4 µg/m³
NO219.7 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)
41
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy46
Jobs13
Education76
Health80
Safety13.7
Connectivity35
Environment23.3
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
58.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.7%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.8 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.8 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.6 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.3 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. · 33.6%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2552
Agriculture 0.6%Industry 9.9%Construction 5.7%Trade · transport · ICT 21%Finance · real estate · prof. 33.6%Public · health · education 29.1%
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)
€41,226M
2024 · EU pctl 94
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€265M
2024 · EU pctl 69
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,101M
2024 · EU pctl 82
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,813M
2024 · EU pctl 63
GVA — construction (F)
€2,330M
2024 · EU pctl 95
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€8,661M
2024 · EU pctl 93
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€22,300
2023 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
34,100 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 54
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€37,100
2024 · EU pctl 56
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€22,266M
2024 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,184M
2024 · EU pctl 26 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€47,206M
2024 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€7,183M
2024 · EU pctl 95
GVA — information & communication (J)
€2,206M
2024 · EU pctl 89
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€13,859M
2024 · EU pctl 96
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€12,011M
2024 · EU pctl 96
Labour market
Employment, total persons
522,300
2024 · EU pctl 94
Self-employed persons
79,600
2024 · EU pctl 95
Employment in manufacturing (C)
22,100
2024 · EU pctl 60
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
72.3%
2025 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
25.5%
2025 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
121,001
2023 · EU pctl 96
Enterprise births
17,024
2023 · EU pctl 97
Enterprise deaths
13,794
2023 · EU pctl 98
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.7%
2023 · EU pctl 96
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.3%
2023 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.7%
2025 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
42.6%
2025 · EU pctl 81 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
48.5%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
13.5%
2025 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
28.5%
2025 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.9%
2025 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
93.0%
2025 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
16,493,857
2025 · EU pctl 98
Mobility
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
5,016
CURRENT · EU pctl 96
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
400
CURRENT · EU pctl 49
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
47
CURRENT · EU pctl 41
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
CURRENT · EU pctl 15
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
768,990
2025 · EU pctl 96
Population aged 65+
292,981
2025 · EU pctl 97
Population aged under 15
191,117
2025 · EU pctl 96
Median age of population
43.4 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 22
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
38.1%
2025 · EU pctl 58
Crude rate of total population change
8.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 90
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
9.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 86
Crude birth rate
8.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Crude death rate
9.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 15
Live births
10,735
2024 · EU pctl 96
Deaths
11,783
2024 · EU pctl 96
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
63.0%
2025 · EU pctl 73
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.39
2024 · EU pctl 49
Population density (persons per km²)
206 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 65
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
25.3%
2025 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.0 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 76 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
622 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
853 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
227 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 44 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
105 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
542 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 92
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,497 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 96
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
66 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
280 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 58
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
31 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 84
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
14 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 11
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
11 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 85
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
18
2024 · EU pctl 75
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
20
2024 · EU pctl 86
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
62
2024 · EU pctl 81
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