L'économie en Essonne

Job market

Unemployment rate: quarterly figures (%)

	Final quarter of 2004	First quarter of 2005
Essonne	7.9	8.0
Paris Region	10.0	10.1
France	10.0	10.2

Source: INSEE

Employment

Breakdown of salaried employment by sector from 31/12/1989 to 31/12/2002

	Essonne		Paris Region
	Total number of employees on 31/12/89	Total number of employees on 31/12/02	Total number of employees on 31/12/89	Total number of employees on 31/12/02
Agriculture, forestry, fishing	1,736	1,970	10,212	12,231
Agri-Food Industries	6,357	5,241	60,819	48,897
Consumer goods industries	13,550	11,341	260,479	177,959
Automotive industries	3,233	1,314	80,454	52,663
Equipment manufacturing industries	22,464	16,997	197,003	147,153
Intermediate goods industries	17,160	16,903	222,645	122,683
Energy	2,718	2,969	67,142	53,926
Construction	30,139	26,180	316,243	223,879
Commerce	52,097	62,257	616,818	651,536
Transport	15,155	22,088	263,251	304,978
Financial activities	7,275	7,587	280,282	270,330
Property business	4,474	6,990	98,442	102,543
Business service providers	58,066	86,712	707,372	1,085,691
Personal service providers	17,692	26,917	348,809	515,338
Education, health, social action	59,998	68,900	644,227	705,139
Administration	34,332	49,546	534,938	626,450
TOTAL	346,446	413,912	4,709,136	5,101,396

Source: INSEE, Départment and sector-specific employment in 2002

Share of salaried employment in the region on 31/12/2002

Population

Population (unduplicated in thousands of inhabitants)

	Essonne	Paris Region	France
1982	988	10,073	54,334
1990	1,084	10,660	56,615
1999	1,134	10,952	58,518
2003 (estimates)	1,153	11,130	59,635

Source: INSEE population censuses and estimates for 2003

Population change (%)

	Essonne	Paris Region	France
1975/1962	+ 92.8	+ 16.6	+ 13.2
1982/1975	+ 7.0	+ 2.00	+ 3.2
1990/1982	+ 9.8	+ 5.8	+ 4.2
1999/1990	+ 4.6	+ 2.7	+ 3.4

Source: INSEE population censuses

Organized by age group (%)

	Essonne		Paris Region		France
	2003*	1999	2003*	1999	2003*	1999
0 - 19 years	28.0	27.2	26.2	25.2	25.1	24.6
20 - 59 years	56.5	57.4	57.6	58.1	58.54.3	54.1
60 years +	15.5	15.5	16.2	16.6	20.6	21.3

Source: INSEE population census - *Provisional data

Education and research

• 2 Universities: Orsay Paris-Sud and Evry-Val d'Essonne
• 30,000 students
• 1,000 theses published annually
• 5 engineering colleges
• 3,700 engineers trained every year
• 20,000 state- and privately-funded researchers
• 200 state- (CEA, CNRS, INRA, Genopole®) and privately-funded R&D laboratories (Danone, GlaxoWellcome, Alcatel, etc.)

Major higher education establishments

• Université d'Evry, Evry
• Université Paris Sud XI, Orsay
• Ecole Supérieure d'Optique, Orsay
• Supelec, Bures-sur-Yvette
• Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, Palaiseau
• Institut National des Télécommunications, Evry

International “Competitive Clusters”

• MediTech Santé
• System@tic Paris-Ile-de-France

Transport

Distance from Paris: 25 km (30 min by car)

Served by two airports
- Charles-de-Gaulle Inter-continental Airport, 50 million passengers annually (1 hr by car)
- Orly (domestic and European flights), 25 million passengers annually (15 min by car)

- Massy high-speed TGV train terminal

Connections to Paris and the Paris region
- 3 RER lines (rapid-transit train service between Paris and the suburbs): RER B, RER C, RER D
- 2 motorways: A10 and A6
- 1 trunk road: N7