EU regions (NUTS 2) by local units in accommodation and food services

Andalusia had the highest local units in accommodation and food services of 243 regions in 2023, at 64,520. Åland had the lowest, at 253. The median was 6,077. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest64,520Andalusia

Lowest253Åland

Median6,077243 regions

Top 40 regions, 2023

count. Source: Eurostat, Local units by NUTS 2 region, Accommodation and food services (NACE Rev. 2 section I) (sbs_r_nuts2021). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Regions	2023 count	Change on 2022
1	Andalusia	64,520	+0.2%
2	Ile-de-France	62,936	+4.1%
3	Catalonia	55,906	+0.2%
4	Lombardia	54,043	+0.1%
5	Rhône-Alpes	40,004	+3%
6	Valencian Community	39,860	+2.1%
7	Community of Madrid	38,585	-0.9%
8	Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur	38,300	+3.2%
9	Norte	37,429	+4.1%
10	Lazio	36,279	+0.4%
11	Campania	31,797	+1.8%
12	Veneto	30,705	-1.1%
13	Emilia-Romagna	28,394	-1.2%
14	Grande Lisboa	27,922	+6.2%
15	Toscana	27,748	-0.1%
16	Piemonte	24,431	-1.2%
17	Sicilia	24,251	+0.4%
18	Puglia	23,969	+1.6%
19	Noord-Holland	23,950	+10.3%
20	Attiki	23,811	+0.3%
21	Galicia	22,954	+3.1%
22	Aquitaine	22,227	+4.1%
23	Algarve	21,342	+11.7%
24	Languedoc-Roussillon	20,751	+2.4%
25	Castile and León	20,443	+5.2%
26	Canary Islands	19,341	-4.7%
27	Zuid-Holland	18,667	+7.9%
28	Bretagne	17,949	-0.8%
29	Midi-Pyrénées	17,034	+3.2%
30	Kentriki Makedonia	16,417	-1.7%
31	Pays de la Loire	16,301	+1.3%
32	Centro (PT)	16,048	+4.1%
33	Jadranska Hrvatska	15,534	+2.1%
34	Oberbayern	15,118	+1.2%
35	Düsseldorf	14,765	+1%
36	Castilla-La Mancha	14,686	+7.7%
37	Nord-Pas de Calais	14,506	+1.9%
38	Notio Aigaio	14,173	+2.2%
39	Balearic Islands	13,806	+3.6%
40	Darmstadt	13,415	+1%
41	Basque Country	13,290	+5.6%
42	Liguria	13,087	-0.7%
43	Berlin	12,958	-1.7%
44	Praha	12,872	+3.7%
45	Köln	12,553	+2.4%
46	Noord-Brabant	12,369	+4%
47	Sardegna	12,296	+0.6%
48	Stuttgart	12,052	+1.4%
49	Tirol	11,708	+0.8%
50	Stockholm	11,654	+4.2%
51	Kriti	11,144	+1.2%
52	Calabria	10,999	+2.1%
53	Centre - Val de Loire	10,707	+0.4%
54	Schleswig-Holstein	10,628	+1.2%
55	Warszawski stołeczny	10,566	+4%
56	Wien	10,446	+1.6%
57	Małopolskie	10,096	+0.2%
58	Eastern and Midland	9,805	-3.6%
59	Ionia Nisia	9,762	+1%
60	Zahodna Slovenija	9,757	+6%
61	Asturias	9,718	-1.1%
62	Marche	9,673	-1.2%
63	Gelderland	9,667	+3.3%
64	Prov. Antwerpen	9,562	+9.6%
65	Yugozapaden	9,542	+3.4%
66	Oeste e Vale do Tejo	9,492	+6.9%
67	Arnsberg	9,363	+1.2%
68	Poitou-Charentes	9,281	+2.3%
69	Jihovýchod	9,206	+2.3%
70	Abruzzo	9,136	-1.2%
71	Freiburg	9,048	+1.4%
72	Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen	8,973	+1.9%
73	Karlsruhe	8,900	+0.5%
74	Region of Murcia	8,869	-6.4%
75	Aragon	8,868	-9.9%
76	Budapest	8,746	+0.7%
77	Severovýchod	8,574	+1.1%
78	Alsace	8,523	+1.5%
79	Vidurio ir vakarų Lietuvos regionas	8,504	+15.5%
80	Västsverige	8,499	+5.8%
81	Lorraine	8,496	+0.9%
82	Jihozápad	8,381	+0.6%
83	Weser-Ems	8,368	+1.1%
84	Prov. West-Vlaanderen	8,329	+8.5%
85	Hovedstaden	8,313	0%
86	Southern	8,060	+1.3%
87	Śląskie	8,031	-1.7%
88	Niederösterreich	7,925	-0.7%
89	Steiermark	7,924	0%
90	Pomorskie	7,823	+2.9%
91	Península de Setúbal	7,772	+5.7%
92	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	7,732	-2%
93	Basse-Normandie	7,717	+0.4%
94	Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen	7,641	+9.5%
95	Bourgogne	7,636	+0.9%
96	Extremadura	7,598	-0.7%
97	Dolnośląskie	7,474	-1.2%
98	Auvergne	7,275	+0.3%
99	Thessalia	7,255	-2.1%
100	Haute-Normandie	7,219	+3.4%
101	Utrecht	7,108	+8.3%
102	Peloponnisos	7,063	-1.2%
103	Salzburg	6,896	+1.2%
104	Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest	6,888	+10.7%
105	Kýpros	6,856	+0.6%
106	Oberösterreich	6,853	-0%
107	Alentejo	6,782	+4.3%
108	Brandenburg	6,715	+1.2%
109	Wielkopolskie	6,701	-0.6%
110	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	6,694	+0.1%
111	Eesti	6,638	+7.4%
112	Střední Čechy	6,628	+1.8%
113	Západné Slovensko	6,602	+0.2%
114	Picardie	6,534	+2.8%
115	Schwaben	6,531	+2.9%
116	Helsinki-Uusimaa	6,472	+1.3%
117	Rheinhessen-Pfalz	6,445	+0.3%
118	Limburg (NL)	6,430	+1.8%
119	Münster	6,342	+2.3%
120	Sydsverige	6,333	+5.4%
121	Zachodniopomorskie	6,097	+1.4%
122	Střední Morava	6,077	+0.5%
123	Severozápad	6,073	+0.3%
124	Yugoiztochen	6,042	+4.8%
125	Hamburg	6,041	+1.6%
126	Hannover	5,916	+3.5%
127	Vzhodna Slovenija	5,854	+3.5%
128	Tübingen	5,811	+2%
129	Östra Mellansverige	5,758	+2.7%
130	Dytiki Elláda	5,635	-3%
131	Região Autónoma da Madeira	5,510	+13.3%
132	Cantabria	5,509	+4.5%
133	Mittelfranken	5,474	+2.5%
134	Sterea Elláda	5,472	-2.3%
135	Sachsen-Anhalt	5,466	+0.4%
136	Stredné Slovensko	5,464	+4.1%
137	Centru	5,461	+7%
138	Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki	5,451	-2.2%
139	Umbria	5,430	+0.2%
140	Prov. Vlaams-Brabant	5,389	+16.9%
141	Corse	5,349	+2.8%
142	Yuzhen tsentralen	5,336	+1.8%
143	Thüringen	5,327	+1.1%
144	Moravskoslezsko	5,171	+1.6%
145	Provincia Autonoma di Trento	5,162	+1.3%
146	Východné Slovensko	5,156	+3.3%
147	Kärnten	5,139	+0.7%
148	Nord-Vest	5,129	+6.4%
149	Detmold	5,027	+1.6%
150	Prov. Liège	5,021	+8.4%
151	Overijssel	5,011	+2.7%
152	Champagne-Ardenne	5,008	+1.2%
153	Prov. Hainaut	4,966	+7.6%
154	Bucureşti-Ilfov	4,952	+9.8%
155	Sud-Est	4,852	+5.6%
156	Northern and Western	4,798	+1%
157	Lüneburg	4,797	+4.3%
158	Koblenz	4,730	-0.1%
159	Franche-Comté	4,595	+0.7%
160	Prov. Limburg (BE)	4,477	+7.3%
161	Ipeiros	4,469	-2.4%
162	Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi	4,290	+0.3%
163	Länsi-Suomi	4,257	+0.8%
164	Nord-Est	4,225	+8.1%
165	La Réunion	4,215	+11.2%
166	Navarre	4,206	-2.9%
167	Braunschweig	4,205	+2.1%
167	Nyugat-Dunántúl	4,205	-3.6%
169	Niederbayern	4,175	+1.2%
170	Bratislavský kraj	4,170	+2.8%
171	Dresden	4,164	0%
172	Midtjylland	4,050	-0.3%
173	Dél-Alföld	4,042	-4.5%
174	Grad Zagreb	4,002	-0.9%
175	Unterfranken	3,951	+0.7%
176	Közép-Dunántúl	3,944	-5.4%
177	Pest	3,940	-3.1%
178	Észak-Alföld	3,897	-7%
179	Syddanmark	3,852	-0.6%
180	Malta	3,826	+14%
181	Etelä-Suomi	3,818	-0.9%
182	Kassel	3,789	+0.3%
183	Dél-Dunántúl	3,729	-7.6%
184	Sostinės regionas	3,727	+5.7%
185	Região Autónoma dos Açores	3,664	+7.2%
186	Limousin	3,606	+2%
187	Łódzkie	3,586	-1.4%
188	Småland med öarna	3,575	+6.3%
189	Saarland	3,549	+1.1%
190	Norra Mellansverige	3,542	+2.1%
191	Friesland (NL)	3,537	+0.7%
192	Észak-Magyarország	3,453	-5%
192	Panonska Hrvatska	3,453	-0.9%
194	Vest	3,431	+4.2%
195	Severoiztochen	3,408	+3.8%
196	Oberfranken	3,385	+1.7%
197	Basilicata	3,372	+1%
198	Sud-Muntenia	3,361	+7.2%
199	Oberpfalz	3,310	+2.3%
200	Chemnitz	3,239	-0.3%
201	Voreio Aigaio	3,206	-2.4%
202	Luxembourg	3,151	+0.6%
203	Zeeland	3,092	+2.2%
204	Podkarpackie	3,062	-0.3%
205	La Rioja	3,038	+63.9%
206	Guadeloupe	2,993	+11.4%
207	Lubelskie	2,936	-1.5%
208	Vorarlberg	2,931	+1.2%
209	Kujawsko-pomorskie	2,919	+1.3%
210	Gießen	2,882	+1.7%
211	Mazowiecki regionalny	2,845	+0.4%
212	Groningen	2,768	+4.6%
213	Sud-Vest Oltenia	2,698	+8.5%
214	Leipzig	2,677	+2.5%
215	Sjeverna Hrvatska	2,523	-2.1%
216	Warmińsko-mazurskie	2,512	-0.1%
217	Sjælland	2,363	0%
218	Dytiki Makedonia	2,325	-4.2%
219	Drenthe	2,302	+1.1%
220	Severen tsentralen	2,292	+3%
221	Severozapaden	2,235	+3.9%
222	Prov. Namur	2,213	+16.2%
223	Trier	2,197	+1.5%
224	Martinique	2,120	+8.5%
225	Bremen	2,075	-4.1%
226	Flevoland	2,034	+7.2%
227	Övre Norrland	2,031	+5.1%
228	Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste	1,938	+3%
229	Lubuskie	1,921	+1.3%
229	Molise	1,921	-0.7%
231	Nordjylland	1,868	-1.1%
232	Mellersta Norrland	1,826	+4.6%
233	Burgenland	1,804	-0.7%
234	Prov. Brabant wallon	1,758	+11.6%
235	Świętokrzyskie	1,721	-1%
236	Podlaskie	1,644	+0.4%
237	Prov. Luxembourg (BE)	1,585	+19.6%
238	Opolskie	1,483	-3.3%
239	Guyane	892	+14.7%
240	Ceuta	419	-28%
241	Melilla	404	+82%
242	Mayotte	264	-25.2%
243	Åland	253	-3.8%

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About this ranking

Number of local units of enterprises in accommodation and food services (NACE Rev. 2 section I). A local unit is an enterprise, or part of one, at a geographically identified place, such as a factory, shop, office or warehouse. Eurostat structural business statistics by region.

Eurostat structural business statistics by region (sbs_r_nuts2021), from 2021. Counted where each unit is located, so an enterprise with shops in several regions counts once in each. Countries and NUTS 2 regions. Eurostat publishes 2021 on NUTS 2021 codes and later years on NUTS 2024 codes, so regions created in 2024 (in Portugal and the Netherlands) start in 2022. Some countries publish estimates, flagged as such.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the regions are compared on one definition. 1 regions with data in other periods have no value for 2023 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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Eurostat. Local units by NUTS 2 region, Accommodation and food services (NACE Rev. 2 section I) (sbs_r_nuts2021). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_r_nuts2021/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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Which region has the highest local units in accommodation and food services?

Andalusia, with 64,520 in 2023, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which region has the lowest local units in accommodation and food services?

Åland, with 253 in 2023.

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