Economy of the Low-Rhine

The Alsace and the the Low-Rhine know a high density of SME and SME and a proportion of credits in the Industrie, higher than the national average. The tourist activity there is intense and is in the beginning many induced employment. The rate of Chômage is there among weakest of France: 6,5%. The average GDP per capita is of 18.795 euros what places the area at the second rank of the French areas with 2,9% of the national GDP. Employment is distributed in the following way, expressed as a percentage of the active population:

Agriculture: 8.411 people is 2%
Artisanat and Industrie: 97.349 people is 24,2%
Bâtiment and public Travaux: 23.928 people is 6,0%
Tertiary sector: 271.984 people is 67,8%
Crosses border dailies to work: 28.186 people

The weight of the great economic sectors

Craft industry: 11.358 companies of which

Food: 11%
Production: 21%
Building: 37%
Services: 31%

Agribusiness industry: 568 units employ 15.884 worker

Trade:

Hypermarket S: 15
Supermarket S: 117
retail businesses: 7.507 including 5.229 nonfood

Tourism: 3216 hotels of 11.100 rooms

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