NUTS-3 ITC18 · Italy
Alessandria
Export region data (CSV)Alessandria generates €14bn of GDP across 407.2k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 55.8/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and market access. Its economy has grown +3.5%/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 clean environment (19.7th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
55.8
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth40.8
Livability42.3
Market access67
Economic scale73
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)
39.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability44
Labour stability41
Diversification53
Demographic stability21
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)
49.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density25
Airport access57
Market access67
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)
19.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.513.6 µg/m³
PM1020.4 µg/m³
NO215.9 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)
42.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy56.5
Jobs27
Education37.5
Health81.5
Safety47
Connectivity27
Environment19.7
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
40.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.0 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.5%
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: Industry · 29.2%Diversified · HHI 2230
Agriculture 1.5%Industry 29.2%Construction 7%Trade · transport · ICT 21.1%Finance · real estate · prof. 24.6%Public · health · education 16.5%
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)
€12,960M
2023 · EU pctl 73
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€196M
2023 · EU pctl 59
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,789M
2023 · EU pctl 80
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,562M
2023 · EU pctl 85
GVA — construction (F)
€909M
2023 · EU pctl 78
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,730M
2023 · EU pctl 73
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)
36,800 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 64
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€35,500
2023 · EU pctl 52
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)
€1,701M
2023 · EU pctl 71
GVA — information & communication (J)
€152M
2023 · EU pctl 50
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,191M
2023 · EU pctl 75
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,144M
2023 · EU pctl 63
Labour market
Employment, total persons
171,100
2023 · EU pctl 67
Self-employed persons
40,200
2023 · EU pctl 80
Employment in manufacturing (C)
35,200
2023 · EU pctl 77
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)
29,421
2023 · EU pctl 72
Enterprise births
2,052
2023 · EU pctl 64
Enterprise deaths
1,644
2023 · EU pctl 64
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.5%
2023 · EU pctl 19
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
48
2012 · EU pctl 75
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
112 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 56
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)
845,432
2025 · EU pctl 48
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.
117
CURRENT · EU pctl 26
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
29
CURRENT · EU pctl 25
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
47
CURRENT · EU pctl 42
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
4
CURRENT · EU pctl 90
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
248,089
2025 · EU pctl 70
Population aged 65+
117,177
2025 · EU pctl 80
Population aged under 15
41,936
2025 · EU pctl 58
Median age of population
52.3 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 95
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
47.2%
2025 · EU pctl 89
Crude rate of total population change
2.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 57
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
11.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 89
Crude birth rate
5.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 3
Crude death rate
14.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Live births
2,086
2024 · EU pctl 55
Deaths
5,878
2024 · EU pctl 80
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
64.1%
2025 · EU pctl 78
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.10
2024 · EU pctl 9
Population density (persons per km²)
115 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 46
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
0.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 54
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
26.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 57
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,037 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 64
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
40 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
132 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 36
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
52 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 93
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
51 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 41
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
10 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 83
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 81
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
16
2024 · EU pctl 72
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
60
2024 · EU pctl 77
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