NUTS-3 ITH32 · Italy
Vicenza
Export region data (CSV)Vicenza generates €36bn of GDP across 854.2k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 63.3/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and market access. Its economy has grown +3.9%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 3.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (94.5th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (22.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
63.3
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth48.8
Livability46.5
Market access66
Economic scale92
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)
42.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability63
Labour stability53
Diversification11
Demographic stability43
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)
43
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density8
Airport access55
Market access66
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)
27.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary24
Lifelong learning67
Knowledge workers10
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.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
46.5
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy63
Jobs50
Education22.5
Health94.5
Safety47.7
Connectivity22.5
Environment25
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
48.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.9%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.1%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.8 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.3 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.0%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.8 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-2.4 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 · 40.6%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2675
Agriculture 1.3%Industry 40.6%Construction 5%Trade · transport · ICT 17.7%Finance · real estate · prof. 23.3%Public · health · education 12.2%
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)
€32,665M
2023 · EU pctl 92
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€433M
2023 · EU pctl 84
GVA — industry (B–E)
€13,253M
2023 · EU pctl 98
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€12,799M
2023 · EU pctl 98
GVA — construction (F)
€1,619M
2023 · EU pctl 90
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€5,778M
2023 · EU pctl 88
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€23,500
2024 · EU pctl 44 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
44,200 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 82
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€42,600
2023 · EU pctl 70
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€45,490M
2023 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€10,941M
2023 · EU pctl 94 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€75,959M
2023 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€3,720M
2023 · EU pctl 87
GVA — information & communication (J)
€500M
2023 · EU pctl 75
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€7,603M
2023 · EU pctl 91
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,977M
2023 · EU pctl 82
Labour market
Employment, total persons
425,100
2023 · EU pctl 92
Self-employed persons
90,900
2023 · EU pctl 96
Employment in manufacturing (C)
145,900
2023 · EU pctl 99
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
71.8%
2025 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
13.7%
2025 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
70,874
2023 · EU pctl 92
Enterprise births
4,195
2023 · EU pctl 82
Enterprise deaths
3,873
2023 · EU pctl 83
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.4%
2023 · EU pctl 17
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
131
2012 · EU pctl 94
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
153 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 65
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.2%
2023 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.2%
2025 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
21.8%
2025 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
33.3%
2025 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
13.3%
2025 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
17.0%
2025 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
5.0%
2025 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.5%
2025 · EU pctl 37 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,359,230
2025 · EU pctl 73
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
680 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 88 · 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.
19
CURRENT · EU pctl 12
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 8
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
49
CURRENT · EU pctl 44
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
546,454
2025 · EU pctl 92
Population aged 65+
204,177
2025 · EU pctl 93
Population aged under 15
103,532
2025 · EU pctl 88
Median age of population
48.9 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 75
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
37.4%
2025 · EU pctl 55
Crude rate of total population change
0.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 49
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 42
Crude birth rate
6.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 27
Crude death rate
9.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 20
Live births
5,721
2024 · EU pctl 89
Deaths
8,385
2024 · EU pctl 91
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
56.3%
2025 · EU pctl 29
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.28
2024 · EU pctl 31
Population density (persons per km²)
314 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 75
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
14.6%
2025 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
84.6 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
305 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
825 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
200 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.1 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 22
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
28.5 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 61
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
995 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 62
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
55 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 73 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
270 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 57
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
14 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 69
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
47 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 37
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
22 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 97
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.
17
2024 · EU pctl 75
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
62
2024 · EU pctl 82
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