Informations Rapides ·
5 July 2023 · n° 174
In Q1 2023, payroll employment increased in four out of five regions and was almost
stable in the others Localized employment and unemployment rates (by region and department) - first quarter
2023
Between the end of December 2022 and the end of March 2023, payroll employment in France as a whole (excluding Mayotte) increased again: +0.3% after +0.2% in the previous quarter. Payroll employment in market services excluding temporary work was up by 0.7% whereas temporary work fell back significantly (-2.2%).
At regional level, payroll employment was almost stable (between -0.1% and +0.1%) in three overseas regions (Guadeloupe, Martinique, La Réunion). It increased by 0.2%, slightly less than the national level (+0.3%) in five regions. It increased at a rate at least as fast as at national level in nine regions: in eight regions of metropolitan France, the increase in payroll employment was between 0.3% and 0.5%, while in Guyane it reached 0.9%.
- In Q1 2023, payroll employment increased at least as much as at national level in nine regions
- Payroll employment was above its level of a year earlier in all regions, with a more marked increase in two overseas regions
- Across all regions, the unemployment rate decreased from its level a year earlier
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In Q1 2023, payroll employment increased at least as much as at national level in nine regions
Between the end of December 2022 and the end of March 2023, payroll employment in France as a whole (excluding Mayotte) increased again: +0.3% after +0.2% in the previous quarter. Payroll employment in market services excluding temporary work was up by 0.7% whereas temporary work fell back significantly (-2.2%).
At regional level, payroll employment was almost stable (between -0.1% and +0.1%) in three overseas regions (Guadeloupe, Martinique, La Réunion). It increased by 0.2%, slightly less than the national level (+0.3%) in five regions. It increased at a rate at least as fast as at national level in nine regions: in eight regions of metropolitan France, the increase in payroll employment was between 0.3% and 0.5%, while in Guyane it reached 0.9%.
tableauChange in payroll employment (regions) between the end of December 2022 and the end of March 2023 (in %)
Change in payroll employment (in %) | |
---|---|
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 0.3 |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 0.2 |
Bretagne | 0.5 |
Centre-Val de Loire | 0.2 |
Corse | 0.4 |
France hors Mayotte | 0.3 |
Grand Est | 0.2 |
Guadeloupe | 0.1 |
Guyane | 0.9 |
Hauts-de-France | 0.2 |
Île-de-France | 0.4 |
La Réunion | -0.1 |
Martinique | 0.0 |
Normandie | 0.3 |
Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 0.2 |
Occitanie | 0.5 |
Pays de la Loire | 0.5 |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 0.5 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the regions have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (+0.3% between the end of December 2022 and the end of March 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 the end of December 2022 and the end of March 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 (+0.3% between the end of December 2022 and the end of March 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 departmental level, payroll employment increased in the first quarter of 2023 by at least 0.3% in almost half of the departments. The increase is the strongest in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (+1.4%) and in Guyane (+0.9%). In eleven departments, payroll employment rose by 0.2%, just below the national level. It was almost stable in 32 departments. It fell in ten departments, notably in Creuse (-0,6%) and Hautes-Alpes (-0.5%).
tableauChange in payroll employment (departments) between the end of December 2022 and the end of March 2023 (in %)
Change in payroll employment (in %) | |
---|---|
Ain | 0.2 |
Aisne | -0.1 |
Allier | 0.1 |
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.4 |
Alpes-Maritimes | 0.6 |
Ardèche | -0.2 |
Ardennes | -0.3 |
Ariège | 0.0 |
Aube | 0.1 |
Aude | 0.4 |
Aveyron | 0.4 |
Bas-Rhin | 0.4 |
Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 |
Calvados | 0.4 |
Cantal | -0.2 |
Charente | 0.1 |
Charente-Maritime | 0.0 |
Cher | 0.2 |
Corrèze | 0.1 |
Corse-du-Sud | 0.2 |
Côte-d'Or | 0.4 |
Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 |
Creuse | -0.6 |
Deux-Sèvres | -0.1 |
Dordogne | 0.2 |
Doubs | -0.1 |
Drôme | 0.0 |
Essonne | 0.3 |
Eure | -0.1 |
Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 |
Finistère | 0.4 |
Gard | 0.4 |
Gers | -0.2 |
Gironde | 0.4 |
Guadeloupe (département) | 0.1 |
Guyane (département) | 0.9 |
Haut-Rhin | 0.2 |
Haute-Corse | 0.6 |
Haute-Garonne | 0.8 |
Haute-Loire | -0.2 |
Haute-Marne | -0.2 |
Haute-Saône | 0.5 |
Haute-Savoie | 0.3 |
Haute-Vienne | -0.2 |
Hautes-Alpes | -0.5 |
Hautes-Pyrénées | 0.7 |
Hauts-de-Seine | 0.6 |
Hérault | 0.7 |
Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 |
Indre | 0.0 |
Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 |
Isère | 0.1 |
Jura | 0.1 |
La Réunion (département) | -0.1 |
Landes | 0.3 |
Loir-et-Cher | 0.1 |
Loire | 0.1 |
Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 |
Loiret | 0.2 |
Lot | 0.8 |
Lot-et-Garonne | 0.6 |
Lozère | 0.0 |
Maine-et-Loire | 0.1 |
Manche | 0.3 |
Marne | 0.3 |
Martinique (département) | 0.0 |
Mayenne | 0.5 |
Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.2 |
Meuse | 0.1 |
Morbihan | 0.5 |
Moselle | 0.2 |
Nièvre | 0.0 |
Nord | 0.4 |
Oise | 0.1 |
Orne | 0.4 |
Paris | 0.6 |
Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 |
Puy-de-Dôme | 0.5 |
Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.4 |
Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.1 |
Rhône | 0.5 |
Saône-et-Loire | 0.2 |
Sarthe | 0.3 |
Savoie | 0.8 |
Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 |
Seine-Maritime | 0.3 |
Seine-Saint-Denis | 0.2 |
Somme | 0.4 |
Tarn | 0.3 |
Tarn-et-Garonne | -0.1 |
Territoire de Belfort | -0.3 |
Val-d'Oise | 0.3 |
Val-de-Marne | 0.1 |
Var | 0.5 |
Vaucluse | 0.2 |
Vendée | 0.4 |
Vienne | 0.3 |
Vosges | 0.0 |
Yonne | 0.1 |
Yvelines | 0.1 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the regions have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (+0.3% between the end of December 2022 and the end of March 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 the end of December 2022 and the end of March 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 (+0.3% between the end of December 2022 and the end of March 2023).
- 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 more marked increase in two overseas regions
At the national level, in Q1 2023, total payroll employment was 1.3% higher than in the first quarter of 2022. It was above its level of one year earlier in all regions. It was well above this level in Guyane (+4.0%) and Guadeloupe (+3.1%). In the other regions, the rise was between +0.3% (for Hauts-de-France) and +1.8% for three regions (Île-de-France, Bretagne and La Réunion).
tableauChange in payroll employment (regions) between March 2022 and March 2023 (in %)
Change in payroll employment (in %) | |
---|---|
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 1.4 |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 0.6 |
Bretagne | 1.8 |
Centre-Val de Loire | 0.7 |
Corse | 1.4 |
France hors Mayotte | 1.3 |
Grand Est | 0.7 |
Guadeloupe | 3.1 |
Guyane | 4.0 |
Hauts-de-France | 0.3 |
Île-de-France | 1.8 |
La Réunion | 1.8 |
Martinique | 1.4 |
Normandie | 0.9 |
Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 1.0 |
Occitanie | 1.7 |
Pays de la Loire | 1.6 |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 1.4 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the regions have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (+1.3% between the end of March 2022 and the end of March 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 March 2022 and March 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 (+1.3% between the end of March 2022 and the end of March 2023).
- 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 March 2022 level in 83 of the 100 departments (excluding Mayotte). The additional 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 two departments of the Île-de-France region. On the whole, trends were more favourable in departments hosting a regional metropolis than in neighbouring departments.
Conversely, payroll employment remained below its March 2022 level in six departments, with declines reaching -0.7% in Creuse. Lastly, it was almost stable in eleven departments.
tableauChange in payroll employment (departments) between March 2022 and March 2023 (in %)
Change in payroll employment (in %) | |
---|---|
Ain | 0.7 |
Aisne | 0.2 |
Allier | 0.4 |
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.9 |
Alpes-Maritimes | 2.0 |
Ardèche | 0.7 |
Ardennes | 0.2 |
Ariège | 0.1 |
Aube | -0.1 |
Aude | 1.3 |
Aveyron | 0.6 |
Bas-Rhin | 1.1 |
Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 |
Calvados | 1.3 |
Cantal | -0.3 |
Charente | 0.7 |
Charente-Maritime | 1.0 |
Cher | 0.2 |
Corrèze | 0.2 |
Corse-du-Sud | 1.0 |
Côte-d'Or | 1.3 |
Côtes-d'Armor | 1.2 |
Creuse | -0.7 |
Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 |
Dordogne | 0.8 |
Doubs | 0.3 |
Drôme | 0.7 |
Essonne | 0.6 |
Eure | 0.1 |
Eure-et-Loir | 0.8 |
Finistère | 1.4 |
Gard | 0.8 |
Gers | 0.0 |
Gironde | 1.7 |
Guadeloupe (département) | 3.1 |
Guyane (département) | 4.0 |
Haut-Rhin | 0.6 |
Haute-Corse | 1.9 |
Haute-Garonne | 2.9 |
Haute-Loire | 0.3 |
Haute-Marne | -0.2 |
Haute-Saône | 0.5 |
Haute-Savoie | 1.8 |
Haute-Vienne | -0.1 |
Hautes-Alpes | -0.2 |
Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.5 |
Hauts-de-Seine | 2.3 |
Hérault | 2.1 |
Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 |
Indre | 0.1 |
Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 |
Isère | 0.8 |
Jura | 0.5 |
La Réunion (département) | 1.8 |
Landes | 1.4 |
Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 |
Loire | 0.7 |
Loire-Atlantique | 2.1 |
Loiret | 0.8 |
Lot | 0.9 |
Lot-et-Garonne | 0.4 |
Lozère | 0.0 |
Maine-et-Loire | 0.9 |
Manche | 0.7 |
Marne | 1.3 |
Martinique (département) | 1.4 |
Mayenne | 1.2 |
Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.2 |
Meuse | 0.2 |
Morbihan | 2.2 |
Moselle | 0.3 |
Nièvre | -0.4 |
Nord | 0.3 |
Oise | 0.1 |
Orne | 1.0 |
Paris | 3.3 |
Pas-de-Calais | 0.5 |
Puy-de-Dôme | 1.3 |
Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 |
Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.2 |
Rhône | 2.4 |
Saône-et-Loire | 0.8 |
Sarthe | 1.3 |
Savoie | 2.5 |
Seine-et-Marne | 1.5 |
Seine-Maritime | 0.9 |
Seine-Saint-Denis | 0.8 |
Somme | -0.1 |
Tarn | 0.4 |
Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.2 |
Territoire de Belfort | 0.5 |
Val-d'Oise | 1.3 |
Val-de-Marne | 0.4 |
Var | 1.2 |
Vaucluse | 0.3 |
Vendée | 1.8 |
Vienne | 0.4 |
Vosges | 0.1 |
Yonne | -0.1 |
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 (+1.3% between the end of March 2022 and the end of March 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 March 2022 and March 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 (+1.3% between the end of March 2022 and the end of March 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data at the end of the quarter.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Sources: INSEE, employment estimates; URSSAF quarterly estimates, DARES, INSEE.
Across all regions, the unemployment rate decreased from its level a year earlier
Nationwide (excluding Mayotte), the unemployment rate was 7.1% in Q1 2023 (as in the previous quarter). Compared with its level a year earlier, it was down by 0.3 points.
Between Q1 2022 and Q1 2023, the unemployment rate was virtually unchanged in six regions, and increased by 0.2 points in one region, La Réunion. It decreased in ten regions, with a slightly smaller drop than at national level in two regions, Bretagne and Grand Est (-0.2 points). In four regions, the unemployment rate fell as much as at national level (-0.3 points), and it decreased more in four other regions.
tableauChange in unemployment rate (regions) between Q1 2022 and Q1 2023 (in points)
Change in unemployment rate (in points) | |
---|---|
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | -0.3 |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 0.0 |
Bretagne | -0.2 |
Centre-Val de Loire | -0.1 |
Corse | -0.1 |
France hors Mayotte | -0.3 |
France métropolitaine | -0.2 |
Grand Est | -0.2 |
Guadeloupe | 0.1 |
Guyane | -1.5 |
Hauts-de-France | -0.1 |
Île-de-France | -0.4 |
La Réunion | 0.2 |
Martinique | -0.1 |
Normandie | -0.3 |
Nouvelle-Aquitaine | -0.4 |
Occitanie | -0.3 |
Pays de la Loire | -0.4 |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | -0.3 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the regions have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (-0.3 points between Q1 2022 and Q1 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
graphiqueChange in unemployment rate (regions) between Q1 2022 and Q1 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 (-0.3 points between Q1 2022 and Q1 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 (Jura, Nièvre and La Réunion), and was almost stable in 33 departments. The unemployment rate fell slightly less sharply than at national level in 26 departments (-0.2 points). It fell as much as at national level in 13 departments. At last, it fell more sharply than at national level in 25 departments, with falls of no more than 0.5 points, with the exception of Guyane (-1.5 points).
tableauChange in unemployment rate (departments) between Q1 2022 and Q1 2023 (in points)
Change in unemployment rate (in points) | |
---|---|
Ain | -0.2 |
Aisne | -0.2 |
Allier | -0.2 |
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | -0.3 |
Alpes-Maritimes | -0.5 |
Ardèche | -0.4 |
Ardennes | -0.1 |
Ariège | -0.1 |
Aube | -0.3 |
Aude | -0.3 |
Aveyron | 0.0 |
Bas-Rhin | -0.2 |
Bouches-du-Rhône | -0.2 |
Calvados | -0.1 |
Cantal | 0.0 |
Charente | -0.4 |
Charente-Maritime | -0.5 |
Cher | -0.2 |
Corrèze | -0.2 |
Corse-du-Sud | -0.2 |
Côte-d'Or | 0.0 |
Côtes-d'Armor | -0.2 |
Creuse | -0.2 |
Deux-Sèvres | -0.2 |
Dordogne | -0.2 |
Doubs | -0.3 |
Drôme | -0.2 |
Essonne | -0.1 |
Eure | -0.5 |
Eure-et-Loir | -0.2 |
Finistère | -0.1 |
Gard | -0.2 |
Gers | -0.2 |
Gironde | -0.5 |
Guadeloupe (département) | 0.1 |
Guyane (département) | -1.5 |
Haut-Rhin | -0.4 |
Haute-Corse | 0.1 |
Haute-Garonne | -0.5 |
Haute-Loire | -0.1 |
Haute-Marne | -0.1 |
Haute-Saône | -0.3 |
Haute-Savoie | -0.5 |
Haute-Vienne | -0.3 |
Hautes-Alpes | -0.4 |
Hautes-Pyrénées | -0.3 |
Hauts-de-Seine | -0.4 |
Hérault | -0.4 |
Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.0 |
Indre | -0.2 |
Indre-et-Loire | -0.1 |
Isère | -0.3 |
Jura | 0.2 |
La Réunion (département) | 0.2 |
Landes | -0.2 |
Loir-et-Cher | -0.2 |
Loire | -0.1 |
Loire-Atlantique | -0.4 |
Loiret | -0.2 |
Lot | 0.0 |
Lot-et-Garonne | -0.4 |
Lozère | -0.1 |
Maine-et-Loire | -0.3 |
Manche | 0.0 |
Marne | -0.1 |
Martinique (département) | -0.1 |
Mayenne | -0.1 |
Meurthe-et-Moselle | -0.3 |
Meuse | -0.1 |
Morbihan | -0.3 |
Moselle | -0.4 |
Nièvre | 0.2 |
Nord | 0.0 |
Oise | -0.2 |
Orne | -0.2 |
Paris | -0.5 |
Pas-de-Calais | 0.0 |
Puy-de-Dôme | -0.1 |
Pyrénées-Atlantiques | -0.3 |
Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.0 |
Rhône | -0.5 |
Saône-et-Loire | 0.1 |
Sarthe | -0.5 |
Savoie | -0.4 |
Seine-et-Marne | -0.4 |
Seine-Maritime | -0.5 |
Seine-Saint-Denis | -0.5 |
Somme | -0.1 |
Tarn | -0.1 |
Tarn-et-Garonne | -0.2 |
Territoire de Belfort | -0.2 |
Val-d'Oise | -0.4 |
Val-de-Marne | -0.4 |
Var | -0.3 |
Vaucluse | -0.1 |
Vendée | -0.2 |
Vienne | -0.1 |
Vosges | 0.0 |
Yonne | 0.1 |
Yvelines | -0.2 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize whether the departments have evolved more or less rapidly compared to the national level (-0.3 points between Q1 2022 and Q1 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
graphiqueChange in unemployment rate (departments) between Q1 2022 and Q1 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 (-0.3 points between Q1 2022 and Q1 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
In the first quarter of 2023, the unemployment rate was higher than at the national level (7.1%) in three regions in metropolitan France: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (8.0%), Occitanie (8.5%) and Hauts-de-France (8.7%). In the French overseas regions, it was higher, ranging from 12.4% in Martinique to 18.7% in La Réunion. Conversely, the unemployment rate was the lowest in Pays de la Loire (5.6%), Bretagne (5.7%), and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (6.0%).
tableauQuarterly unemployment rate (regions) in Q1 2023 (in %)
Quarterly unemployment rate (in %) | |
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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 6.0 |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 6.2 |
Bretagne | 5.7 |
Centre-Val de Loire | 6.6 |
Corse | 6.2 |
France hors Mayotte | 7.1 |
France métropolitaine | 6.9 |
Grand Est | 6.9 |
Guadeloupe | 18.2 |
Guyane | 14.0 |
Hauts-de-France | 8.7 |
Île-de-France | 6.6 |
La Réunion | 18.7 |
Martinique | 12.4 |
Normandie | 6.6 |
Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 6.2 |
Occitanie | 8.5 |
Pays de la Loire | 5.6 |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 8.0 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize the level of the regions compared to the national level (7.1% in Q1 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
graphiqueQuarterly unemployment rate (regions) in Q1 2023 (in %)

- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize the level of the regions compared to the national level (7.1% in Q1 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
tableauQuarterly unemployment rate (departments) in Q1 2023 (in %)
Quarterly unemployment rate (in %) | |
---|---|
Ain | 5.3 |
Aisne | 10.4 |
Allier | 7.5 |
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 8.0 |
Alpes-Maritimes | 7.1 |
Ardèche | 7.8 |
Ardennes | 9.4 |
Ariège | 9.2 |
Aube | 9.4 |
Aude | 9.9 |
Aveyron | 5.6 |
Bas-Rhin | 6.0 |
Bouches-du-Rhône | 8.6 |
Calvados | 6.2 |
Cantal | 4.0 |
Charente | 6.6 |
Charente-Maritime | 6.6 |
Cher | 7.3 |
Corrèze | 5.8 |
Corse-du-Sud | 5.9 |
Côte-d'Or | 5.5 |
Côtes-d'Armor | 6.1 |
Creuse | 6.9 |
Deux-Sèvres | 5.1 |
Dordogne | 7.0 |
Doubs | 6.3 |
Drôme | 7.7 |
Essonne | 6.2 |
Eure | 6.6 |
Eure-et-Loir | 6.5 |
Finistère | 6.1 |
Gard | 9.8 |
Gers | 5.5 |
Gironde | 6.2 |
Guadeloupe (département) | 18.2 |
Guyane (département) | 14.0 |
Haut-Rhin | 6.6 |
Haute-Corse | 6.6 |
Haute-Garonne | 7.0 |
Haute-Loire | 5.5 |
Haute-Marne | 6.1 |
Haute-Saône | 6.1 |
Haute-Savoie | 5.2 |
Haute-Vienne | 6.2 |
Hautes-Alpes | 6.7 |
Hautes-Pyrénées | 7.7 |
Hauts-de-Seine | 5.6 |
Hérault | 9.8 |
Ille-et-Vilaine | 5.3 |
Indre | 6.9 |
Indre-et-Loire | 6.3 |
Isère | 5.7 |
Jura | 5.2 |
La Réunion (département) | 18.7 |
Landes | 6.7 |
Loir-et-Cher | 5.8 |
Loire | 7.0 |
Loire-Atlantique | 5.4 |
Loiret | 6.8 |
Lot | 7.2 |
Lot-et-Garonne | 7.1 |
Lozère | 4.6 |
Maine-et-Loire | 6.1 |
Manche | 5.1 |
Marne | 7.0 |
Martinique (département) | 12.4 |
Mayenne | 4.8 |
Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.7 |
Meuse | 7.1 |
Morbihan | 5.6 |
Moselle | 6.9 |
Nièvre | 6.7 |
Nord | 9.2 |
Oise | 7.1 |
Orne | 6.3 |
Paris | 5.4 |
Pas-de-Calais | 8.2 |
Puy-de-Dôme | 6.1 |
Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 5.5 |
Pyrénées-Orientales | 11.7 |
Rhône | 6.0 |
Saône-et-Loire | 6.3 |
Sarthe | 6.7 |
Savoie | 5.1 |
Seine-et-Marne | 6.4 |
Seine-Maritime | 7.4 |
Seine-Saint-Denis | 9.8 |
Somme | 8.5 |
Tarn | 7.7 |
Tarn-et-Garonne | 8.5 |
Territoire de Belfort | 8.0 |
Val-d'Oise | 7.7 |
Val-de-Marne | 6.8 |
Var | 7.2 |
Vaucluse | 9.4 |
Vendée | 5.1 |
Vienne | 5.8 |
Vosges | 7.4 |
Yonne | 6.7 |
Yvelines | 6.2 |
- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize the level of the departments compared to the national level (7.1% in Q1 2023).
- Note: seasonally adjusted data in quarterly average.
- Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
- Source: INSEE, localised unemployment rates.
graphiqueQuarterly unemployment rate (departments) in Q1 2023 (in %)

- How to read it: the ranges enable to visualize the level of the departments compared to the national level (7.1% in Q1 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 : 5 October 2023 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 : 5 October 2023 at 12:00.
Informations Rapides: In Q1 2023, the unemployment rate was stable at 7.1%
Informations Rapides: In Q1 2023, payroll employment increased by 0.3%
Time series: Estimates of salaried employment by business sector
Time series: Localised unemployment rates