Informations Rapides ·
5 October 2023 · n° 257
In Q2 2023, payroll employment was almost stable in most regions Localized employment and unemployment rates (by region and department) - second quarter
2023
Between the end of March 2023 and the end of June 2023, payroll employment in France as a whole (excluding Mayotte) slowed down: +0.1% after +0.4% in the previous quarter. Payroll employment in industry and in market services excluding temporary work went up slightly (+0.2%) whereas temporary work and payroll employment in construction fell (-0.5%).
At regional level, payroll employment was almost stable (between -0.1% and +0.1%) in most regions. It decreased slightly in two regions: Grand Est (-0.2%) and Guadeloupe (-0.3%). It increased by 0.2%, slightly above the national level, in Île-de-France, Pays de la Loire and Martinique, and by 0.3% in La Réunion. Payroll employment slackened in all regions, with the exception of two overseas regions (Martinique and La Réunion).
In Q2 2023, payroll employment slowed down in almost all regions
Between the end of March 2023 and the end of June 2023, payroll employment in France as a whole (excluding Mayotte) slowed down: +0.1% after +0.4% in the previous quarter. Payroll employment in industry and in market services excluding temporary work went up slightly (+0.2%) whereas temporary work and payroll employment in construction fell (-0.5%).
At regional level, payroll employment was almost stable (between -0.1% and +0.1%) in most regions. It decreased slightly in two regions: Grand Est (-0.2%) and Guadeloupe (-0.3%). It increased by 0.2%, slightly above the national level, in Île-de-France, Pays de la Loire and Martinique, and by 0.3% in La Réunion. Payroll employment slackened in all regions, with the exception of two overseas regions (Martinique and La Réunion).
tableauChange in payroll employment (regions) between the end of March 2023 and the end of June 2023 (in %)
Change in payroll employment (in %) | |
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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 0.0 |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 0.0 |
Bretagne | 0.1 |
Centre-Val de Loire | 0.0 |
Corse | -0.1 |
France hors Mayotte | 0.1 |
Grand Est | -0.2 |
Guadeloupe | -0.3 |
Guyane | 0.0 |
Hauts-de-France | 0.0 |
Île-de-France | 0.2 |
La Réunion | 0.3 |
Martinique | 0.2 |
Normandie | 0.0 |
Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 0.1 |
Occitanie | 0.1 |
Pays de la Loire | 0.2 |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 0.1 |
- Note: seasonally adjusted data at the end of the quarter.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Sources: INSEE, employment estimates; URSSAF quarterly estimates, DARES, INSEE.
graphiqueChange in payroll employment (regions) between the end of March 2023 and the end of June 2023 (in %)

- Note: seasonally adjusted data at the end of the quarter.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Sources: INSEE, employment estimates; URSSAF quarterly estimates, DARES, INSEE.
At departmental level, payroll employment was almost stable in the second quarter of 2023 in almost half of the departments. It rose by 0.2%, slightly above the national level, in 14 departments and by at least 0.3% in 17 departments. The increase is the strongest in Ariège and Essonne (+0.5%). Conversely, it fell in 23 departments, particularly in Gers (-1.0%) and Lozère (-0.7%).
tableauChange in payroll employment (departments) between the end of March 2023 and the end of June 2023 (in %)
Change in payroll employment (in %) | |
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Ain | 0.0 |
Aisne | 0.2 |
Allier | -0.2 |
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.0 |
Alpes-Maritimes | 0.2 |
Ardèche | 0.0 |
Ardennes | 0.0 |
Ariège | 0.5 |
Aube | -0.2 |
Aude | -0.2 |
Aveyron | -0.3 |
Bas-Rhin | -0.1 |
Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.3 |
Calvados | 0.1 |
Cantal | 0.2 |
Charente | 0.2 |
Charente-Maritime | 0.1 |
Cher | 0.0 |
Corrèze | -0.3 |
Corse-du-Sud | -0.3 |
Côte-d'Or | -0.1 |
Côtes-d'Armor | -0.1 |
Creuse | 0.0 |
Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 |
Dordogne | 0.0 |
Doubs | 0.1 |
Drôme | 0.0 |
Essonne | 0.5 |
Eure | 0.3 |
Eure-et-Loir | -0.1 |
Finistère | 0.3 |
Gard | 0.0 |
Gers | -1.0 |
Gironde | 0.2 |
Guadeloupe (département) | -0.3 |
Guyane (département) | 0.0 |
Haut-Rhin | -0.2 |
Haute-Corse | 0.1 |
Haute-Garonne | 0.3 |
Haute-Loire | 0.1 |
Haute-Marne | -0.2 |
Haute-Saône | -0.4 |
Haute-Savoie | 0.1 |
Haute-Vienne | -0.2 |
Hautes-Alpes | 0.3 |
Hautes-Pyrénées | 0.4 |
Hauts-de-Seine | 0.0 |
Hérault | 0.1 |
Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.3 |
Indre | -0.1 |
Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 |
Isère | 0.1 |
Jura | 0.1 |
La Réunion (département) | 0.3 |
Landes | 0.2 |
Loir-et-Cher | 0.1 |
Loire | -0.2 |
Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 |
Loiret | 0.0 |
Lot | 0.1 |
Lot-et-Garonne | -0.1 |
Lozère | -0.7 |
Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 |
Manche | 0.1 |
Marne | -0.1 |
Martinique (département) | 0.2 |
Mayenne | 0.3 |
Meurthe-et-Moselle | -0.1 |
Meuse | -0.5 |
Morbihan | -0.2 |
Moselle | -0.3 |
Nièvre | 0.2 |
Nord | 0.0 |
Oise | -0.1 |
Orne | -0.4 |
Paris | 0.4 |
Pas-de-Calais | -0.1 |
Puy-de-Dôme | -0.1 |
Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.0 |
Pyrénées-Orientales | -0.3 |
Rhône | 0.0 |
Saône-et-Loire | 0.1 |
Sarthe | 0.2 |
Savoie | -0.2 |
Seine-et-Marne | 0.2 |
Seine-Maritime | -0.1 |
Seine-Saint-Denis | 0.3 |
Somme | 0.3 |
Tarn | -0.2 |
Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 |
Territoire de Belfort | 0.0 |
Val-d'Oise | 0.2 |
Val-de-Marne | -0.1 |
Var | -0.3 |
Vaucluse | 0.2 |
Vendée | 0.0 |
Vienne | -0.1 |
Vosges | -0.3 |
Yonne | -0.1 |
Yvelines | -0.1 |
- Note: seasonally adjusted data at the end of the quarter.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Sources: INSEE, employment estimates; URSSAF quarterly estimates, DARES, INSEE.
graphiqueChange in payroll employment (regions) between the end of March 2023 and the end of June 2023 (in %)

- Note: seasonally adjusted data at the end of the quarter.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Sources: INSEE, employment estimates; URSSAF quarterly estimates, DARES, INSEE.
Payroll employment was above its level of a year earlier in all regions, with a less marked increase in the North-East quarter
At the national level, in Q2 2023, total payroll employment was 1.0% higher than in the second quarter of 2022. It was above its level of one year earlier in all regions. It was well above in Guyane (+2.9%). In the other regions, the increase was between +0.3% (in Hauts-de-France) and +1.7% in three regions (Bretagne, Guadeloupe and La Réunion). It increased the least (between +0.3% and +0.5%) in the three regions of the North-East quarter.
tableauChange in payroll employment (regions) between June 2022 and June 2023 (in %)
Change in payroll employment (in %) | |
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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 1.0 |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 0.5 |
Bretagne | 1.7 |
Centre-Val de Loire | 0.6 |
Corse | 0.8 |
France hors Mayotte | 1.0 |
Grand Est | 0.4 |
Guadeloupe | 1.7 |
Guyane | 2.9 |
Hauts-de-France | 0.3 |
Île-de-France | 1.4 |
La Réunion | 1.7 |
Martinique | 0.9 |
Normandie | 0.8 |
Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 0.9 |
Occitanie | 1.3 |
Pays de la Loire | 1.5 |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 1.0 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the regions have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (+1.0% between the end of June 2022 and the end of June 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data at the end of the quarter.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Sources: INSEE, employment estimates; URSSAF quarterly estimates, DARES, INSEE.
graphiqueChange in payroll employment (regions) between June 2022 and June 2023 (in %)

- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the regions have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (+1.0% between the end of June 2022 and the end of June 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data at the end of the quarter.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Sources: INSEE, employment estimates; URSSAF quarterly estimates, DARES, INSEE.
At the end of June 2023, payroll employment was above its level one year earlier in 77 of the 100 departments (excluding Mayotte). The rise of payroll employment over one year was more significant in the overseas departments, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean coasts, in Savoie and Haute-Savoie, and in the majority of Île-de-France departments. On the whole, trends were more favourable in departments hosting a regional metropolis than in neighbouring departments. Conversely, payroll employment was below its June 2022 level in 10 departments, with declines reaching -1.3% in Gers. Lastly, it was almost stable in 13 departments.
tableauChange in payroll employment (departments) between June 2022 and June 2023 (in %)
Change in payroll employment (in %) | |
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Ain | 0.6 |
Aisne | 0.5 |
Allier | 0.0 |
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.4 |
Alpes-Maritimes | 1.2 |
Ardèche | 0.6 |
Ardennes | 0.3 |
Ariège | 0.7 |
Aube | 0.3 |
Aude | 0.5 |
Aveyron | 0.1 |
Bas-Rhin | 0.7 |
Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 |
Calvados | 1.4 |
Cantal | 0.1 |
Charente | 0.7 |
Charente-Maritime | 0.9 |
Cher | 0.5 |
Corrèze | 0.0 |
Corse-du-Sud | 0.2 |
Côte-d'Or | 1.3 |
Côtes-d'Armor | 1.3 |
Creuse | -0.6 |
Deux-Sèvres | 1.1 |
Dordogne | 1.0 |
Doubs | 0.4 |
Drôme | 0.3 |
Essonne | 1.3 |
Eure | 0.8 |
Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 |
Finistère | 1.3 |
Gard | 0.6 |
Gers | -1.3 |
Gironde | 1.6 |
Guadeloupe (département) | 1.7 |
Guyane (département) | 2.9 |
Haut-Rhin | 0.2 |
Haute-Corse | 1.5 |
Haute-Garonne | 2.4 |
Haute-Loire | 0.3 |
Haute-Marne | -0.2 |
Haute-Saône | 0.2 |
Haute-Savoie | 1.4 |
Haute-Vienne | -0.2 |
Hautes-Alpes | 0.1 |
Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.7 |
Hauts-de-Seine | 1.7 |
Hérault | 1.6 |
Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 |
Indre | -0.1 |
Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 |
Isère | 0.8 |
Jura | 0.3 |
La Réunion (département) | 1.7 |
Landes | 1.2 |
Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 |
Loire | 0.2 |
Loire-Atlantique | 1.8 |
Loiret | 0.7 |
Lot | 1.0 |
Lot-et-Garonne | -0.3 |
Lozère | -0.8 |
Maine-et-Loire | 1.3 |
Manche | 0.5 |
Marne | 1.2 |
Martinique (département) | 0.9 |
Mayenne | 1.5 |
Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.9 |
Meuse | -0.5 |
Morbihan | 1.8 |
Moselle | -0.1 |
Nièvre | 0.1 |
Nord | 0.3 |
Oise | 0.2 |
Orne | 0.4 |
Paris | 2.4 |
Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 |
Puy-de-Dôme | 0.9 |
Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.7 |
Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.6 |
Rhône | 1.6 |
Saône-et-Loire | 0.7 |
Sarthe | 1.2 |
Savoie | 1.4 |
Seine-et-Marne | 1.0 |
Seine-Maritime | 0.8 |
Seine-Saint-Denis | 1.1 |
Somme | 0.4 |
Tarn | 0.1 |
Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.7 |
Territoire de Belfort | 0.1 |
Val-d'Oise | 0.8 |
Val-de-Marne | 0.1 |
Var | 0.6 |
Vaucluse | 0.2 |
Vendée | 1.4 |
Vienne | 0.4 |
Vosges | -0.2 |
Yonne | -0.2 |
Yvelines | -0.4 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the departments have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (+1.0% between the end of June 2022 and the end of June 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data at the end of the quarter.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Sources: INSEE, employment estimates; URSSAF quarterly estimates, DARES, INSEE.
graphiqueChange in payroll employment (departments) between June 2022 and June 2023 (in %)

- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the departments have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (+1.0% between the end of June 2022 and the end of June 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data at the end of the quarter.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Sources: INSEE, employment estimates; URSSAF quarterly estimates, DARES, INSEE.
In most regions, the unemployment rate decreased from its level a year earlier
Nationwide (excluding Mayotte), the unemployment rate was 7.2% in Q2 2023 (0.1 points higher than in the previous quarter). Compared with its level a year earlier, it was down by 0.2 points.
Between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023, the unemployment rate was virtually unchanged in five regions, and increased in three regions, notably in Guadeloupe (+1.0 points) and in Guyane (+0.5 points). It fell moderately (by between -0.2 and -0.3 points) in six regions, and a little more sharply (-0.4 points) in Pays de la Loire and in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and strongly in Martinique (-2.9 points).
tableauChange in unemployment rate (regions) between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023 (in points)
Change in unemployment rate (in points) | |
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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | -0.2 |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | -0.1 |
Bretagne | 0.0 |
Centre-Val de Loire | -0.2 |
Corse | 0.2 |
France hors Mayotte | -0.2 |
France métropolitaine | -0.2 |
Grand Est | -0.1 |
Guadeloupe | 1.0 |
Guyane | 0.5 |
Hauts-de-France | 0.0 |
Île-de-France | -0.3 |
La Réunion | -0.1 |
Martinique | -2.9 |
Normandie | -0.3 |
Nouvelle-Aquitaine | -0.3 |
Occitanie | -0.3 |
Pays de la Loire | -0.4 |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | -0.4 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the regions have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (-0.2 points between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
graphiqueChange in unemployment rate (regions) between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023 (in points)

- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the regions have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (-0.2 points between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
Over one year, the unemployment rate increased by 0.2 points in three departments (Haute-Corse, Pyrénées-Orientales and Vosges). It was almost stable in 39 departments. The unemployment rate fell as much as at national level (-0.2 points) in 25 departments. It fell by 0.3 points in 16 departments, and even more (between -0.4 and -0.5 points) in 14 departments.
tableauChange in unemployment rate (departments) between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023 (in points)
Change in unemployment rate (in points) | |
---|---|
Ain | -0.1 |
Aisne | -0.2 |
Allier | -0.1 |
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | -0.3 |
Alpes-Maritimes | -0.5 |
Ardèche | -0.4 |
Ardennes | 0.0 |
Ariège | -0.2 |
Aube | -0.2 |
Aude | -0.2 |
Aveyron | -0.1 |
Bas-Rhin | -0.1 |
Bouches-du-Rhône | -0.4 |
Calvados | -0.2 |
Cantal | 0.1 |
Charente | -0.2 |
Charente-Maritime | -0.4 |
Cher | -0.4 |
Corrèze | -0.3 |
Corse-du-Sud | 0.1 |
Côte-d'Or | -0.1 |
Côtes-d'Armor | -0.1 |
Creuse | -0.2 |
Deux-Sèvres | -0.2 |
Dordogne | -0.3 |
Doubs | -0.2 |
Drôme | -0.1 |
Essonne | -0.2 |
Eure | -0.4 |
Eure-et-Loir | 0.0 |
Finistère | 0.0 |
Gard | -0.1 |
Gers | -0.2 |
Gironde | -0.4 |
Guadeloupe (département) | 1.0 |
Guyane (département) | 0.5 |
Haut-Rhin | -0.1 |
Haute-Corse | 0.2 |
Haute-Garonne | -0.4 |
Haute-Loire | -0.1 |
Haute-Marne | 0.1 |
Haute-Saône | -0.2 |
Haute-Savoie | -0.3 |
Haute-Vienne | -0.3 |
Hautes-Alpes | -0.3 |
Hautes-Pyrénées | -0.5 |
Hauts-de-Seine | -0.2 |
Hérault | -0.3 |
Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.1 |
Indre | -0.3 |
Indre-et-Loire | -0.1 |
Isère | -0.2 |
Jura | 0.1 |
La Réunion (département) | -0.1 |
Landes | -0.4 |
Loir-et-Cher | -0.2 |
Loire | 0.1 |
Loire-Atlantique | -0.3 |
Loiret | -0.3 |
Lot | -0.2 |
Lot-et-Garonne | -0.3 |
Lozère | 0.1 |
Maine-et-Loire | -0.3 |
Manche | -0.1 |
Marne | 0.0 |
Martinique (département) | -2.9 |
Mayenne | -0.4 |
Meurthe-et-Moselle | -0.1 |
Meuse | -0.1 |
Morbihan | -0.1 |
Moselle | -0.2 |
Nièvre | -0.1 |
Nord | 0.0 |
Oise | -0.2 |
Orne | -0.4 |
Paris | -0.2 |
Pas-de-Calais | -0.1 |
Puy-de-Dôme | -0.1 |
Pyrénées-Atlantiques | -0.3 |
Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.2 |
Rhône | -0.2 |
Saône-et-Loire | 0.0 |
Sarthe | -0.4 |
Savoie | -0.2 |
Seine-et-Marne | -0.3 |
Seine-Maritime | -0.4 |
Seine-Saint-Denis | -0.2 |
Somme | -0.3 |
Tarn | -0.1 |
Tarn-et-Garonne | -0.1 |
Territoire de Belfort | 0.1 |
Val-d'Oise | -0.3 |
Val-de-Marne | -0.2 |
Var | -0.2 |
Vaucluse | -0.1 |
Vendée | -0.2 |
Vienne | -0.1 |
Vosges | 0.2 |
Yonne | 0.0 |
Yvelines | -0.1 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the departments have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (-0.2 points between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
graphiqueChange in unemployment rate (departments) between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023 (in points)

- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the departments have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (-0.2 points between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
In the second quarter of 2023, the unemployment rate was higher than at the national level (7.2%) in three regions in metropolitan France: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (7.8%), Occitanie (8.5%) and Hauts-de-France (8.9%). In the French overseas regions, it was higher, ranging from 10.7% in Martinique to 19.5% in Guadeloupe. Conversely, the unemployment rate was the lowest in Pays de la Loire (5.6%), Bretagne (5.8%), and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (6.1%).
tableauQuarterly unemployment rate (regions) in Q2 2023 (in %)
Quarterly unemployment rate (in %) | |
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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 6.1 |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 6.3 |
Bretagne | 5.8 |
Centre-Val de Loire | 6.7 |
Corse | 6.2 |
France hors Mayotte | 7.2 |
France métropolitaine | 6.9 |
Grand Est | 7.1 |
Guadeloupe | 19.5 |
Guyane | 13.8 |
Hauts-de-France | 8.9 |
Île-de-France | 6.7 |
La Réunion | 18.8 |
Martinique | 10.7 |
Normandie | 6.7 |
Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 6.2 |
Occitanie | 8.5 |
Pays de la Loire | 5.6 |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 7.8 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize the level of the regions compared to the national level (7.2% in Q2 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
graphiqueQuarterly unemployment rate (regions) in Q2 2023 (in %)

- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize the level of the regions compared to the national level (7.2% in Q2 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
tableauQuarterly unemployment rate (departments) in Q2 2023 (in %)
Quarterly unemployment rate (in %) | |
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Ain | 5.4 |
Aisne | 10.3 |
Allier | 7.6 |
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 7.9 |
Alpes-Maritimes | 6.8 |
Ardèche | 7.7 |
Ardennes | 9.5 |
Ariège | 9.2 |
Aube | 9.4 |
Aude | 9.9 |
Aveyron | 5.7 |
Bas-Rhin | 6.2 |
Bouches-du-Rhône | 8.4 |
Calvados | 6.3 |
Cantal | 4.1 |
Charente | 6.8 |
Charente-Maritime | 6.5 |
Cher | 7.2 |
Corrèze | 5.9 |
Corse-du-Sud | 5.8 |
Côte-d'Or | 5.6 |
Côtes-d'Armor | 6.2 |
Creuse | 6.9 |
Deux-Sèvres | 5.1 |
Dordogne | 7.0 |
Doubs | 6.5 |
Drôme | 7.8 |
Essonne | 6.2 |
Eure | 6.8 |
Eure-et-Loir | 6.7 |
Finistère | 6.1 |
Gard | 9.9 |
Gers | 5.5 |
Gironde | 6.2 |
Guadeloupe (département) | 19.5 |
Guyane (département) | 13.8 |
Haut-Rhin | 6.9 |
Haute-Corse | 6.6 |
Haute-Garonne | 7.1 |
Haute-Loire | 5.6 |
Haute-Marne | 6.5 |
Haute-Saône | 6.3 |
Haute-Savoie | 5.2 |
Haute-Vienne | 6.3 |
Hautes-Alpes | 6.6 |
Hautes-Pyrénées | 7.6 |
Hauts-de-Seine | 5.7 |
Hérault | 9.8 |
Ille-et-Vilaine | 5.5 |
Indre | 7.0 |
Indre-et-Loire | 6.4 |
Isère | 5.8 |
Jura | 5.2 |
La Réunion (département) | 18.8 |
Landes | 6.5 |
Loir-et-Cher | 5.9 |
Loire | 7.3 |
Loire-Atlantique | 5.4 |
Loiret | 7.0 |
Lot | 7.2 |
Lot-et-Garonne | 7.1 |
Lozère | 4.7 |
Maine-et-Loire | 6.2 |
Manche | 5.0 |
Marne | 7.1 |
Martinique (département) | 10.7 |
Mayenne | 4.7 |
Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.9 |
Meuse | 7.1 |
Morbihan | 5.7 |
Moselle | 7.1 |
Nièvre | 6.6 |
Nord | 9.4 |
Oise | 7.3 |
Orne | 6.4 |
Paris | 5.5 |
Pas-de-Calais | 8.4 |
Puy-de-Dôme | 6.3 |
Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 5.4 |
Pyrénées-Orientales | 11.8 |
Rhône | 6.2 |
Saône-et-Loire | 6.4 |
Sarthe | 6.9 |
Savoie | 5.1 |
Seine-et-Marne | 6.5 |
Seine-Maritime | 7.7 |
Seine-Saint-Denis | 10.0 |
Somme | 8.6 |
Tarn | 7.7 |
Tarn-et-Garonne | 8.4 |
Territoire de Belfort | 8.5 |
Val-d'Oise | 7.8 |
Val-de-Marne | 7.0 |
Var | 7.2 |
Vaucluse | 9.3 |
Vendée | 5.0 |
Vienne | 5.8 |
Vosges | 7.7 |
Yonne | 6.8 |
Yvelines | 6.3 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize the level of the departments compared to the national level (7.2% in Q2 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
graphiqueQuarterly unemployment rate (departments) in Q2 2023 (in %)

- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize the level of the departments compared to the national level (7.2% in Q2 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
For further information
The Quarterly Employment Estimates measure employment at the place of work in France (excluding Mayotte). They are compiled by INSEE by applying to the annual employment base the quarterly changes from several sources mobilized by the URSSAF Caisse nationale, DARES and INSEE.
The introduction of the Déclaration sociale nominative (DSN) to replace the bordereau récapitulatif de cotisations (BRC) may have temporarily affected companies' reporting behaviour. During the DSN ramp-up phase, adaptations have been made in the statistical processing chain of employment estimates in order to take these changes into account.
In particular, in the third quarter of 2022, a switch to the DSN source was made for the State civil service. This change of source may have led to a break in the seasonality of the measurement of public employment; the most obvious breaks have been neutralized, but some less obvious and smaller ones may remain. Developments since the third quarter of 2022 should therefore be viewed with caution in this field.
The “enquête Emploi” enables to measure precisely at the national level, the unemployment rate every trimester. At sharper geographic levels the sample surveyed is too small for good cyclical monitoring.
INSEE therefore develops a specific indicator, the “localized unemployment rate” based on three sources for metropolitan France: the “enquête Emploi”, which provides the number of unemployed and employed persons in the ILO sense; administrative data on employment from social declarations by companies and the self-employed, making it possible to exhaustively and finely localize employment at a territorial level; data on job seekers at the end of the month registered with Pôle emploi in category A (DEFM A), which make it possible to finely localize unemployed persons. This last source differs in level from the results of the “enquête Emploi”, since it does not follow the ILO concepts used in the survey. But, assuming that this difference is evenly distributed, its structure can be used to disaggregate unemployment from the “enquête Emploi”.
The calculation of localized unemployment rates in the overseas departments excluding Mayotte is based on a specific methodology, which means that a statistical hazard remains in the short-term variations. To study structural and long-term effects, annual average unemployment rate series should be preferred in the overseas departments excluding Mayotte.
INSEE does not calculate a quarterly unemployment rate for Mayotte, but instead publishes an annual figure based on the “enquête Emploi” conducted in the second quarter of each year. Thus, in the second quarter of 2022, the ILO unemployment rate was 34% of the active population in Mayotte, up 4 percentage points compared to its level in previous years.
Data are provisional for the last quarter and revised for previous quarters.
Next publication: 4 January 2024 at 12:00.
Pour en savoir plus
The Quarterly Employment Estimates measure employment at the place of work in France (excluding Mayotte). They are compiled by INSEE by applying to the annual employment base the quarterly changes from several sources mobilized by the URSSAF Caisse nationale, DARES and INSEE.
The introduction of the Déclaration sociale nominative (DSN) to replace the bordereau récapitulatif de cotisations (BRC) may have temporarily affected companies' reporting behaviour. During the DSN ramp-up phase, adaptations have been made in the statistical processing chain of employment estimates in order to take these changes into account.
In particular, in the third quarter of 2022, a switch to the DSN source was made for the State civil service. This change of source may have led to a break in the seasonality of the measurement of public employment; the most obvious breaks have been neutralized, but some less obvious and smaller ones may remain. Developments since the third quarter of 2022 should therefore be viewed with caution in this field.
The “enquête Emploi” enables to measure precisely at the national level, the unemployment rate every trimester. At sharper geographic levels the sample surveyed is too small for good cyclical monitoring.
INSEE therefore develops a specific indicator, the “localized unemployment rate” based on three sources for metropolitan France: the “enquête Emploi”, which provides the number of unemployed and employed persons in the ILO sense; administrative data on employment from social declarations by companies and the self-employed, making it possible to exhaustively and finely localize employment at a territorial level; data on job seekers at the end of the month registered with Pôle emploi in category A (DEFM A), which make it possible to finely localize unemployed persons. This last source differs in level from the results of the “enquête Emploi”, since it does not follow the ILO concepts used in the survey. But, assuming that this difference is evenly distributed, its structure can be used to disaggregate unemployment from the “enquête Emploi”.
The calculation of localized unemployment rates in the overseas departments excluding Mayotte is based on a specific methodology, which means that a statistical hazard remains in the short-term variations. To study structural and long-term effects, annual average unemployment rate series should be preferred in the overseas departments excluding Mayotte.
INSEE does not calculate a quarterly unemployment rate for Mayotte, but instead publishes an annual figure based on the “enquête Emploi” conducted in the second quarter of each year. Thus, in the second quarter of 2022, the ILO unemployment rate was 34% of the active population in Mayotte, up 4 percentage points compared to its level in previous years.
Data are provisional for the last quarter and revised for previous quarters.
Next publication: 4 January 2024 at 12:00.
Time series: Estimates of salaried employment by business sector
Time series: Localised unemployment rates