NUTS-3 ITC14 · Italy
Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
Export region data (CSV)Verbano-Cusio-Ossola generates €4.5bn of GDP across 153.3k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 46.8/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +2.8%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 5.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (81.5th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (25.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
46.8
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth37
Livability46.3
Market access77
Economic scale27
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)
40.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability41
Labour stability40
Diversification55
Demographic stability25
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)
47.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density22
Airport access43
Market access77
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)
18
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary10
Lifelong learning48
Knowledge workers6
Scientists & engineers8
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)
30.5
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.5—
PM1017.9 µg/m³
NO214.9 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)
46.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy43.5
Jobs27
Education37.5
Health81.5
Safety78
Connectivity25.5
Environment31
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
37
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+2.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+1.8%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.0 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.4%
CAGR
Employment rate
+5.0 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.5 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. · 27.5%Diversified · HHI 2221
Agriculture 0.7%Industry 18.6%Construction 7%Trade · transport · ICT 24.5%Finance · real estate · prof. 27.5%Public · health · education 21.5%
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 · 71 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€4,009M
2023 · EU pctl 26
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€28M
2023 · EU pctl 14
GVA — industry (B–E)
€747M
2023 · EU pctl 23
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€599M
2023 · EU pctl 26
GVA — construction (F)
€282M
2023 · EU pctl 30
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€984M
2023 · EU pctl 35
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€24,400
2024 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
30,100 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 38
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€29,000
2023 · EU pctl 35
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€44,851M
2023 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€10,323M
2023 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€61,911M
2023 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€622M
2023 · EU pctl 38
GVA — information & communication (J)
€44M
2023 · EU pctl 27
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,104M
2023 · EU pctl 39
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€863M
2023 · EU pctl 26
Labour market
Employment, total persons
58,400
2023 · EU pctl 22
Self-employed persons
15,200
2023 · EU pctl 49
Employment in manufacturing (C)
8,300
2023 · EU pctl 23
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
73.5%
2025 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
19.3%
2025 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
11,741
2023 · EU pctl 45
Enterprise births
745
2023 · EU pctl 37
Enterprise deaths
661
2023 · EU pctl 37
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.1%
2023 · EU pctl 10
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
3
2012 · EU pctl 21
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
20 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 27
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.1%
2023 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.6%
2025 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
21.2%
2025 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
29.3%
2025 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
10.0%
2025 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
16.0%
2025 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
5.0%
2025 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
93.9%
2025 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,820,925
2025 · EU pctl 82
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
723 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 94 · 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.
29
CURRENT · EU pctl 15
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
19
CURRENT · EU pctl 22
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
60
CURRENT · EU pctl 57
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)
94,025
2025 · EU pctl 30
Population aged 65+
44,061
2025 · EU pctl 37
Population aged under 15
15,197
2025 · EU pctl 18
Median age of population
52.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 96
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
46.9%
2025 · EU pctl 89
Crude rate of total population change
-3.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 24
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 52
Crude birth rate
4.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 2
Crude death rate
13.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Live births
758
2024 · EU pctl 16
Deaths
2,006
2024 · EU pctl 32
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
63.0%
2025 · EU pctl 73
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.06
2024 · EU pctl 5
Population density (persons per km²)
71 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 28
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
16.9%
2025 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.7 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
343 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
892 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
228 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
9.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 24
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
419 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
40 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
1,062 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 96
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 8
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
157 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 96
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
29 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 99
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 72
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
15
2024 · EU pctl 66
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
54
2024 · EU pctl 51
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