NUTS-3 NO084 · Norway
Akershus
Its Opportunity Index of 46.7/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and economic growth. On quality of life it ranks strongest for education (89.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (35.3th).
Mandate pillar profile · EU percentiles (screener dimensions)
Energy cost100
Talent & skills95
Digital readiness92
Freight intensity72
Quality of life68
Connectivity64
Labour market62
Growth momentum48
Air quality34
Cost advantage21
Each bar is this region's EU percentile on a screener pillar (higher = better for siting; cost & energy are inverted so cheap scores high). These are the exact weights you tune in the Site Screener.
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
46.7
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 3/4 pillars
Growth48.3
Livability67.7
Market access24
Economic scale—
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.
Connectivity Index · transit · air · market access (experimental)
63.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density82
Airport access85
Market access24
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)
95.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary98
Lifelong learning89
Knowledge workers98
Scientists & engineers96
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)
34
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.9 µg/m³
PM1015.9 µg/m³
NO217.7 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)
67.7
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy79
Jobs51
Education89.5
Health87
Safety45
Connectivity87
Environment35.3
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
48.3
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 3/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
—
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
—
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
—
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
—
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.7%
CAGR
Employment rate
+0.4 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
0.0 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.
Trends · 2014–2025
Population
740,6802025
1.6% 1y 1.9% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 89
All indicators · 56 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€28,600
2020 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€27,753M
2020 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€831M
2020 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€65,746M
2020 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Labour market
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
81.4%
2025 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
15.6%
2025 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.9%
2020 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
7.8%
2025 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE)
2.3%
2023 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
56.5%
2025 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
63.5%
2025 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
21.7%
2025 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
37.5%
2025 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
13.8%
2025 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
99.0%
2025 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,714,168
2025 · EU pctl 75
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
494 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
28,710 kt
2025 · EU pctl 95
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
5,630
CURRENT · EU pctl 97
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
760
CURRENT · EU pctl 82
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²)
12 km/1000km²
2023 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
21
CURRENT · EU pctl 14
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
CURRENT · EU pctl 15
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
482,159
2025 · EU pctl 90
Population aged 65+
127,719
2025 · EU pctl 84
Population aged under 15
130,802
2025 · EU pctl 92
Median age of population
41.0 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 7
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
26.5%
2025 · EU pctl 5
Crude rate of total population change
16.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 97
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
13.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 91
Crude birth rate
9.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 94
Crude death rate
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 1
Live births
7,120
2024 · EU pctl 92
Deaths
4,883
2024 · EU pctl 73
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
53.6%
2025 · EU pctl 15
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.57
2024 · EU pctl 84
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
324 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
823 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
206 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 17 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.2 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 76
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
16.2 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 40
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,823 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 88
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
15 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.064/kWh
2025-S2 · EU pctl 0
Housing market
Dwelling price per m² (NOK, all types, Statistics Norway)
56,970 NOK/m²
2025 · EU pctl 93
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
156 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 41
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 8
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
141 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 94
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 65
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
16
2024 · EU pctl 60
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
18
2024 · EU pctl 78
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
53
2024 · EU pctl 46
Population in the 100-year river floodplain (% of residents, EFAS × census grid)
1.8%
2021 · EU pctl 35
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