NUTS-3 PT1B0 · Portugal
Península de Setúbal
Export region data (CSV)Península de Setúbal generates €15bn of GDP across 848.5k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 54.1/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +5.7%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 4.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (56th EU percentile) and weakest for economy (18th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
54.1
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth67.2
Livability41.1
Market access33
Economic scale75
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)
69.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability46
Labour stability89
Diversification49
Demographic stability94
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)
56.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density62
Airport access75
Market access33
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)
65.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary50
Lifelong learning81
Knowledge workers61
Scientists & engineers71
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)
56
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.55.8 µg/m³
PM1018.5 µg/m³
NO212.1 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)
41.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy18
Jobs37
Education34.5
Health47
Safety42.7
Connectivity52.5
Environment56
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
67.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.7%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+5.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+4.8 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.3 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. · 27.3%Diversified · HHI 2256
Agriculture 1.7%Industry 16.3%Construction 5.5%Trade · transport · ICT 24.8%Finance · real estate · prof. 27.3%Public · health · education 24.4%
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 · 68 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€13,323M
2024 · EU pctl 73
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€224M
2024 · EU pctl 63
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,167M
2024 · EU pctl 61
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,798M
2023 · EU pctl 63
GVA — construction (F)
€734M
2024 · EU pctl 70
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,307M
2024 · EU pctl 78
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€15,100
2023 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
22,100 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 13
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€18,200
2024 · EU pctl 17
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€3,015M
2023 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€579M
2023 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€6,470M
2023 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,206M
2024 · EU pctl 77
GVA — information & communication (J)
€195M
2024 · EU pctl 56
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,636M
2024 · EU pctl 78
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,255M
2024 · EU pctl 77
Labour market
Employment, total persons
284,440
2024 · EU pctl 84
Self-employed persons
47,690
2023 · EU pctl 85
Employment in manufacturing (C)
31,460
2023 · EU pctl 72
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.0%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
23.2%
2025 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
98,277
2023 · EU pctl 95
Enterprise births
20,339
2023 · EU pctl 98
Enterprise deaths
12,780
2023 · EU pctl 97
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.2%
2023 · EU pctl 68
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.9%
2024 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.5%
2025 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
34.3%
2025 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
41.0%
2025 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
17.0%
2025 · EU pctl 81 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
25.1%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
10.1%
2025 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.8%
2025 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,514,156
2024 · EU pctl 74
Mobility
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
4,484
CURRENT · EU pctl 95
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
529
CURRENT · EU pctl 62
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
31
CURRENT · EU pctl 25
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)
533,511
2025 · EU pctl 92
Population aged 65+
194,140
2025 · EU pctl 92
Population aged under 15
120,856
2025 · EU pctl 91
Median age of population
45.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 46
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
36.4%
2025 · EU pctl 49
Crude rate of total population change
16.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 97
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
17.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 96
Crude birth rate
9.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 93
Crude death rate
10.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 36
Live births
8,191
2024 · EU pctl 94
Deaths
9,117
2024 · EU pctl 93
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.0%
2025 · EU pctl 48
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.69
2024 · EU pctl 94
Population density (persons per km²)
558 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 84
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
18.9%
2025 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.5 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
178 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
233 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
2.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 91
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
127 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 97
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
157 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 37
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
830 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 53
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
35 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
28 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 9
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
59 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 95
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 5
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 54
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
19
2024 · EU pctl 75
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12
2024 · EU pctl 48
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
63
2024 · EU pctl 85
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