NUTS-3 ITG2D · Italy
Sassari
Export region data (CSV)Sassari generates €13bn of GDP across 472k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 42.6/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +4.9%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 6.5pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (81.5th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (6.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
42.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth53.4
Livability40.1
Market access8
Economic scale69
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)
31.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability45
Labour stability24
Diversification37
Demographic stability19
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)
35.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density47
Airport access52
Market access8
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)
19.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary5
Lifelong learning64
Knowledge workers7
Scientists & engineers2
Young tertiary attainment (25–34), adult lifelong learning, knowledge-worker share and scientists & engineers — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = deeper talent pool. Experimental.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
40.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy32
Jobs6.5
Education11
Health81.5
Safety36.3
Connectivity40.5
Environment73
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
+4.9%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.6%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+2.3 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.5%
CAGR
Employment rate
+6.5 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-3.7 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. · 27.9%Diversified · HHI 2332
Agriculture 3.5%Industry 6.6%Construction 8.8%Trade · transport · ICT 25.6%Finance · real estate · prof. 27.9%Public · health · education 27.7%
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 · 67 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€11,526M
2023 · EU pctl 69
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€400M
2023 · EU pctl 82
GVA — industry (B–E)
€755M
2023 · EU pctl 24
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€474M
2023 · EU pctl 20
GVA — construction (F)
€1,011M
2023 · EU pctl 80
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,952M
2023 · EU pctl 75
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€18,900
2024 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
28,100 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 31
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€27,100
2023 · EU pctl 31
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€10,118M
2023 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€512M
2023 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€16,391M
2023 · EU pctl 26 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,664M
2023 · EU pctl 70
GVA — information & communication (J)
€134M
2023 · EU pctl 48
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,215M
2023 · EU pctl 76
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,191M
2023 · EU pctl 76
Labour market
Employment, total persons
195,200
2023 · EU pctl 72
Self-employed persons
49,300
2023 · EU pctl 86
Employment in manufacturing (C)
10,500
2023 · EU pctl 30
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
64.4%
2025 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
24.6%
2025 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
37,401
2023 · EU pctl 79
Enterprise births
3,056
2023 · EU pctl 74
Enterprise deaths
2,066
2023 · EU pctl 70
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.3%
2023 · EU pctl 48
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.8%
2023 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
1.7%
2025 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
18.4%
2025 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
23.8%
2025 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
12.7%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
16.3%
2025 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
4.2%
2025 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.3%
2025 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
10,974,679
2025 · EU pctl 95
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
719 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 93 · 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.
1,795
CURRENT · EU pctl 76
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
380
CURRENT · EU pctl 47
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
52
CURRENT · EU pctl 48
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
301,107
2025 · EU pctl 75
Population aged 65+
123,090
2025 · EU pctl 82
Population aged under 15
47,760
2025 · EU pctl 64
Median age of population
50.9 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 89
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
40.9%
2025 · EU pctl 72
Crude rate of total population change
-3.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 23
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 36
Crude birth rate
4.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 1
Crude death rate
11.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 46
Live births
2,255
2024 · EU pctl 58
Deaths
5,368
2024 · EU pctl 77
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
56.7%
2025 · EU pctl 32
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
0.94
2024 · EU pctl 1
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
29.7%
2025 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.2 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
298 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
857 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
224 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 47
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
23.6 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 54
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
888 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 56
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
72 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
419 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
48 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 91
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 8
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 44
Environment
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
9
2024 · EU pctl 27
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
43
2024 · EU pctl 6
Similar regions · nearest peers on standardised NUTS-3 indicators
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