NUTS-3 ITH53 · Italy
Reggio nell’Emilia
Export region data (CSV)Reggio nell’Emilia generates €23bn of GDP across 530.7k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 62/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and market access. Its economy has grown +3.8%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 3.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (88th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (34.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
62
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth47
Livability50.9
Market access66
Economic scale84
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 stability52
Labour stability52
Diversification19
Demographic stability47
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)
39.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density5
Airport access48
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)
34.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary36
Lifelong learning65
Knowledge workers24
Scientists & engineers12
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)
50.9
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy69.5
Jobs46.5
Education42
Health88
Safety38.7
Connectivity34.5
Environment37
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
47
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.2%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.6 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.0%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.2 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.7 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: Industry · 35.4%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2520
Agriculture 2.4%Industry 35.4%Construction 5.3%Trade · transport · ICT 16.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 28.7%Public · health · education 11.9%
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)
€20,895M
2023 · EU pctl 84
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€495M
2023 · EU pctl 87
GVA — industry (B–E)
€7,397M
2023 · EU pctl 93
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€7,141M
2023 · EU pctl 95
GVA — construction (F)
€1,099M
2023 · EU pctl 82
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,434M
2023 · EU pctl 78
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€25,400
2024 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
45,700 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 84
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€44,100
2023 · EU pctl 74
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€45,497M
2023 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€12,104M
2023 · EU pctl 95 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€74,553M
2023 · EU pctl 83 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,624M
2023 · EU pctl 81
GVA — information & communication (J)
€344M
2023 · EU pctl 67
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€5,992M
2023 · EU pctl 86
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,481M
2023 · EU pctl 68
Labour market
Employment, total persons
257,800
2023 · EU pctl 82
Self-employed persons
55,500
2023 · EU pctl 89
Employment in manufacturing (C)
74,200
2023 · EU pctl 94
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
74.5%
2025 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
17.4%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
42,308
2023 · EU pctl 82
Enterprise births
3,145
2023 · EU pctl 75
Enterprise deaths
2,419
2023 · EU pctl 73
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.9%
2023 · EU pctl 35
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
71
2012 · EU pctl 84
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
136 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 62
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.1%
2023 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.8%
2025 · EU pctl 40 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
25.3%
2025 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
36.2%
2025 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
13.1%
2025 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
19.2%
2025 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
5.3%
2025 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.2%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
915,901
2025 · EU pctl 50
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
691 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 91 · 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.
7
CURRENT · EU pctl 8
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1
CURRENT · EU pctl 5
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
56
CURRENT · EU pctl 51
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)
342,208
2025 · EU pctl 79
Population aged 65+
121,646
2025 · EU pctl 82
Population aged under 15
66,886
2025 · EU pctl 75
Median age of population
47.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 65
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.5%
2025 · EU pctl 42
Crude rate of total population change
3.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
7.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 71
Crude birth rate
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Crude death rate
10.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Live births
3,514
2024 · EU pctl 75
Deaths
5,425
2024 · EU pctl 77
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
55.1%
2025 · EU pctl 22
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.24
2024 · EU pctl 25
Population density (persons per km²)
232 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 68
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
8.2%
2025 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
84.3 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 94 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
358 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
860 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
212 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 31
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
35.9 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 72
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,254 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 74
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
61 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
198 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 48
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
43 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 89
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
39 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 30
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
11 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 86
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.
14
2024 · EU pctl 63
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
56
2024 · EU pctl 59
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