NUTS-3 FRL02 · France
Hautes-Alpes
Export region data (CSV)Hautes-Alpes generates €5.1bn of GDP across 145.1k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 46.3/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and economic growth. Its economy has grown +3.8%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 3.7pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (86.5th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (22.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
46.3
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth53.4
Livability54.6
Market access46
Economic scale31
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)
54.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability63
Labour stability55
Diversification19
Demographic stability80
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)
51
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density98
Airport access9
Market access46
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)
75.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary86
Lifelong learning66
Knowledge workers86
Scientists & engineers65
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)
28.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.59.7 µg/m³
PM1016.7 µg/m³
NO217.9 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)
54.6
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy54
Jobs22.5
Education75
Health86.5
Safety50
Connectivity65.5
Environment29
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
53.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.0 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.7 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.7 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 · 32.1%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2516
Agriculture 2%Industry 5.8%Construction 8.8%Trade · transport · ICT 20.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 30.8%Public · health · education 32.1%
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 · 70 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€4,515M
2024 · EU pctl 30
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€90M
2024 · EU pctl 33
GVA — industry (B–E)
€262M
2024 · EU pctl 7
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€146M
2024 · EU pctl 5
GVA — construction (F)
€397M
2024 · EU pctl 44
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€922M
2024 · EU pctl 33
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€25,900
2023 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
32,900 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 49
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€35,700
2024 · EU pctl 52
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€49,335M
2024 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,075M
2024 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€105,791M
2024 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,059M
2024 · EU pctl 55
GVA — information & communication (J)
€42M
2024 · EU pctl 27
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,392M
2024 · EU pctl 47
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,451M
2024 · EU pctl 48
Labour market
Employment, total persons
65,700
2024 · EU pctl 26
Self-employed persons
12,700
2024 · EU pctl 43
Employment in manufacturing (C)
2,500
2024 · EU pctl 4
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
73.4%
2025 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
22.6%
2025 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
17,825
2023 · EU pctl 57
Enterprise births
1,819
2023 · EU pctl 60
Enterprise deaths
1,674
2023 · EU pctl 65
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.2%
2023 · EU pctl 69
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.1%
2023 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.4%
2025 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
42.5%
2025 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
52.3%
2025 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
13.2%
2025 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
29.8%
2025 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
9.7%
2025 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.1%
2025 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
4,621,377
2025 · EU pctl 86
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
593 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 47 · 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.
2,174
CURRENT · EU pctl 82
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,498
CURRENT · EU pctl 98
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
118
CURRENT · EU pctl 91
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)
83,569
2025 · EU pctl 24
Population aged 65+
40,221
2025 · EU pctl 33
Population aged under 15
21,301
2025 · EU pctl 31
Median age of population
48.9 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 75
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
48.1%
2025 · EU pctl 91
Crude rate of total population change
5.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
8.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 79
Crude birth rate
7.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 51
Crude death rate
10.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 30
Live births
1,122
2024 · EU pctl 29
Deaths
1,517
2024 · EU pctl 21
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
73.6%
2025 · EU pctl 95
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.58
2024 · EU pctl 85
Population density (persons per km²)
26 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 6
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
20.7%
2025 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.8 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
636 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
851 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
202 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
32.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
345 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 74
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,309 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 76
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
56 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
2,778 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 100
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 0
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
265 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 100
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
16 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 92
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
17
2024 · EU pctl 65
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
18
2024 · EU pctl 79
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
68
2024 · EU pctl 92
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