NUTS-3 ITI13 · Italy
Pistoia
Export region data (CSV)Pistoia generates €9.1bn of GDP across 289.9k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 50.9/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and livability. Its economy has grown +3.1%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 5.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (89.5th EU percentile) and weakest for education (26th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
50.9
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth44.4
Livability53.3
Market access51
Economic scale55
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)
55.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability57
Labour stability42
Diversification87
Demographic stability37
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)
72
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density92
Airport access73
Market access51
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)
23.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary13
Lifelong learning61
Knowledge workers12
Scientists & engineers7
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)
53.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy44.5
Jobs40.5
Education26
Health89.5
Safety50.3
Connectivity82
Environment40
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
44.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.6%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.5 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+5.0 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: Finance · real estate · prof. · 28.4%Diversified · HHI 2005
Agriculture 7.9%Industry 19.4%Construction 6.5%Trade · transport · ICT 20.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 28.4%Public · health · education 17.6%
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)
€8,182M
2023 · EU pctl 55
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€649M
2023 · EU pctl 92
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,587M
2023 · EU pctl 49
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,465M
2023 · EU pctl 55
GVA — construction (F)
€532M
2023 · EU pctl 57
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,657M
2023 · EU pctl 56
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€23,000
2024 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
32,600 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 48
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€31,400
2023 · EU pctl 40
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€29,682M
2023 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€5,009M
2023 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€51,756M
2023 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,272M
2023 · EU pctl 61
GVA — information & communication (J)
€105M
2023 · EU pctl 43
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,322M
2023 · EU pctl 66
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,436M
2023 · EU pctl 47
Labour market
Employment, total persons
116,100
2023 · EU pctl 50
Self-employed persons
34,000
2023 · EU pctl 75
Employment in manufacturing (C)
20,700
2023 · EU pctl 57
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
73.7%
2025 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
15.1%
2025 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
25,095
2023 · EU pctl 68
Enterprise births
1,689
2023 · EU pctl 58
Enterprise deaths
1,394
2023 · EU pctl 59
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.6%
2023 · EU pctl 23
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
11
2012 · EU pctl 42
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
40 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 35
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.4%
2023 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.7%
2025 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
23.8%
2025 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
30.8%
2025 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
11.7%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
17.4%
2025 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
4.9%
2025 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.6%
2025 · EU pctl 72 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,464,071
2025 · EU pctl 74
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
744 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 97 · 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.
2,955
CURRENT · EU pctl 89
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,019
CURRENT · EU pctl 92
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
32
CURRENT · EU pctl 27
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)
179,970
2025 · EU pctl 57
Population aged 65+
77,356
2025 · EU pctl 63
Population aged under 15
32,599
2025 · EU pctl 48
Median age of population
50.6 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 88
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
43.0%
2025 · EU pctl 79
Crude rate of total population change
0.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 46
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Crude birth rate
5.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 6
Crude death rate
12.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 56
Live births
1,578
2024 · EU pctl 44
Deaths
3,468
2024 · EU pctl 58
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
61.1%
2025 · EU pctl 64
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.08
2024 · EU pctl 7
Population density (persons per km²)
303 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 75
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
18.1%
2025 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
84.2 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
277 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
848 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
209 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 22 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.3 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 29
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
27.9 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 60
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
861 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 55
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
51 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
321 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 63
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
26 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 82
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
14 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 11
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
19 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 96
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 60
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
50
2024 · EU pctl 28
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