NUTS-3 FRL06 · France
Vaucluse
Export region data (CSV)Vaucluse generates €21bn of GDP across 576.9k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 54.4/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and livability. Its economy has grown +2.5%/yr over five years, with the employment rate up 3.7pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (86.5th EU percentile) and weakest for safety (20th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
54.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth43.4
Livability47.1
Market access45
Economic scale82
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)
65
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability98
Labour stability55
Diversification32
Demographic stability75
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 density60
Airport access42
Market access45
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)
22
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.511.1 µg/m³
PM1020 µg/m³
NO216.5 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)
47.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy57
Jobs22.5
Education75
Health86.5
Safety20
Connectivity46.5
Environment22
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
43.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+2.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.4%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.2 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-1.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.5%
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: Finance · real estate · prof. · 30.9%Diversified · HHI 2371
Agriculture 1.8%Industry 11.4%Construction 6.2%Trade · transport · ICT 23.2%Finance · real estate · prof. 30.9%Public · health · education 26.6%
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)
€18,989M
2024 · EU pctl 81
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€334M
2024 · EU pctl 76
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,158M
2024 · EU pctl 61
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,654M
2024 · EU pctl 60
GVA — construction (F)
€1,172M
2024 · EU pctl 84
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€4,410M
2024 · EU pctl 84
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)
34,300 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 55
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€37,300
2024 · EU pctl 57
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)
€3,451M
2024 · EU pctl 85
GVA — information & communication (J)
€278M
2024 · EU pctl 64
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€5,869M
2024 · EU pctl 86
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€5,046M
2024 · EU pctl 86
Labour market
Employment, total persons
248,500
2024 · EU pctl 80
Self-employed persons
38,100
2024 · EU pctl 78
Employment in manufacturing (C)
18,900
2024 · EU pctl 54
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)
55,395
2023 · EU pctl 87
Enterprise births
7,070
2023 · EU pctl 91
Enterprise deaths
5,833
2023 · EU pctl 91
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.1%
2023 · EU pctl 89
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)
4,807,909
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.
2,953
CURRENT · EU pctl 89
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
512
CURRENT · EU pctl 60
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
62
CURRENT · EU pctl 58
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)
340,148
2025 · EU pctl 79
Population aged 65+
143,202
2025 · EU pctl 87
Population aged under 15
93,598
2025 · EU pctl 86
Median age of population
45.9 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 48
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
42.1%
2025 · EU pctl 77
Crude rate of total population change
4.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 72
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
4.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 50
Crude birth rate
9.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 90
Crude death rate
10.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 22
Live births
5,401
2024 · EU pctl 87
Deaths
5,742
2024 · EU pctl 80
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
69.6%
2025 · EU pctl 89
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.77
2024 · EU pctl 97
Population density (persons per km²)
162 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 58
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
1.2 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 76
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
61.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 87
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
537 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 91
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,893 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 90
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
56 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
365 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 69
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
47 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 91
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
32 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 23
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
8 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 79
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
20
2024 · EU pctl 80
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
17
2024 · EU pctl 74
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
55
2024 · EU pctl 57
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