Characteristics of establishments at the end of 2021 France
tableauRES T1 - Active establishments as employers by aggregate sector of activity and size at the end of 2021
Total | % | 0 employee | 1 to 9 employee(s) | 10 to 19 employees | 20 to 49 employees | 50 or more employees | |
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Altogether | 2 339 583 | 100,0 | 221 629 | 1 695 057 | 210 179 | 129 787 | 82 931 |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 112 138 | 4,8 | 19 244 | 88 412 | 2 951 | 1 161 | 370 |
Industrial economy | 151 069 | 6,5 | 8 646 | 92 761 | 22 616 | 15 630 | 11 416 |
Building industry | 260 656 | 11,1 | 28 743 | 195 276 | 21 787 | 11 132 | 3 718 |
Trade, transport, various services | 1 519 822 | 65,0 | 152 129 | 1 141 588 | 122 550 | 68 312 | 35 243 |
including trade and car repair | 445 642 | 19,0 | 33 062 | 342 386 | 40 445 | 20 484 | 9 265 |
Administration publique, enseignement, santé, action sociale | 295 898 | 12,6 | 12 867 | 177 020 | 40 275 | 33 552 | 32 184 |
- Scope: excluding the defense sector and individual employers.
- Source: Insee, Flores (Localized Compensation and Employee Employment File) in geography as of 01/01/2023.
tableauRES T2 - Salaried positions by aggregate sector of activity and establishments size at the end of 2021
Total | % | 1 to 9 employeee(s) | 10 to 19 employees | 20 to 49 employees | 50 to 99 employees | 100 or more employees | |
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Altogether | 25 725 227 | 100,0 | 5 089 652 | 2 808 320 | 3 960 503 | 3 286 742 | 10 580 010 |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 294 030 | 1,1 | 183 669 | 38 463 | 34 243 | 16 573 | 21 082 |
Industrial economy | 3 199 786 | 12,4 | 347 000 | 305 576 | 479 866 | 388 113 | 1 679 231 |
Building industry | 1 599 433 | 6,2 | 587 471 | 289 092 | 331 122 | 172 434 | 219 314 |
Trade, transport, various services | 12 430 338 | 48,3 | 3 378 334 | 1 626 964 | 2 060 123 | 1 372 530 | 3 992 387 |
including trade and car repair | 3 492 200 | 13,6 | 1 143 870 | 532 666 | 613 538 | 378 616 | 823 510 |
Administration publique, enseignement, santé, action sociale | 8 201 640 | 31,9 | 593 178 | 548 225 | 1 055 149 | 1 337 092 | 4 667 996 |
- Scope: excluding the defense sector and individual employers.
- Source: Insee, Flores (Localized Compensation and Employee Employment File) in geography as of 01/01/2023.
tableauRES G1 - Distribution of active employer establishments by aggregate sector of activity at the end of 2021
% | |
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General government, education, healthcare, social action* | 12,6 |
Trade, transport, various services* | 65,0 |
Building industry* | 11,1 |
Industrial economy* | 6,5 |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing* | 4,8 |
- Scope: excluding the defense sector and individual employers.
- Source: Insee, Flores (Localized Compensation and Employee Employment File) in geography as of 01/01/2023.
graphiqueRES G1 - Distribution of active employer establishments by aggregate sector of activity at the end of 2021

- Scope: excluding the defense sector and individual employers.
- Source: Insee, Flores (Localized Compensation and Employee Employment File) in geography as of 01/01/2023.
tableauRES G2 - Distribution of active employer establishments by size at the end of 2021
% | |
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50 or more employees | 3,5 |
20 to 49 employees | 5,5 |
10 to 19 employees | 9,0 |
1 to 9 employee(s) | 72,5 |
0 employee | 9,5 |
- Scope: excluding the defense sector and individual employers.
- Source: Insee, Flores (Localized Compensation and Employee Employment File) in geography as of 01/01/2023.
graphiqueRES G2 - Distribution of active employer establishments by size at the end of 2021

- Scope: excluding the defense sector and individual employers.
- Source: Insee, Flores (Localized Compensation and Employee Employment File) in geography as of 01/01/2023.
tableauRES T3 - Active establishments as employers according to the spheres of the economy at the end of 2021
Establishments | Salaried positions | |||
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Number | % | Number | % | |
Altogether | 2 339 583 | 100,0 | 25 725 227 | 100,0 |
Productive sphere* | 771 348 | 33,0 | 9 076 441 | 35,3 |
of which public domain* | 1 290 | 0,1 | 143 559 | 0,6 |
Presential sphere | 1 568 235 | 67,0 | 16 648 786 | 64,7 |
of which public domain* | 129 861 | 5,6 | 5 567 113 | 21,6 |
- Scope: excluding the defense sector and individual employers.
- Source: Insee, Flores (Localized Compensation and Employee Employment File) in geography as of 01/01/2023.
tableauRES T4 - Active establishments, employers and salaried positions by detailed sector of activity (A17) at the end of 2021
Establishments | Salaried positions | |||
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Number | % | Number | % | |
Altogether | 2 339 583 | 100,0 | 25 725 227 | 100,0 |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 112 138 | 4,8 | 294 030 | 1,1 |
Manufacture of food, drink and tobacco products | 49 289 | 2,1 | 644 244 | 2,5 |
Coking and refining | 56 | 0,0 | 8 671 | 0,0 |
Manufacture of electrical, electronic and computer equipment; machinery manufacturing | 9 179 | 0,4 | 404 848 | 1,6 |
Manufacture of transport equipment | 2 813 | 0,1 | 344 811 | 1,3 |
Manufacture of other industrial products | 72 431 | 3,1 | 1 399 046 | 5,4 |
Extractive industries, energy, water, waste management and pollution control | 17 301 | 0,7 | 398 166 | 1,5 |
Building industry | 260 656 | 11,1 | 1 599 433 | 6,2 |
Trade ; repair of automobiles and motorcycles | 445 642 | 19,0 | 3 492 200 | 13,6 |
Transportation and warehousing | 70 731 | 3,0 | 1 448 920 | 5,6 |
Accommodation and catering | 211 588 | 9,0 | 1 211 378 | 4,7 |
Information and communication | 65 044 | 2,8 | 895 392 | 3,5 |
Financial and insurance activities | 99 601 | 4,3 | 909 826 | 3,5 |
Real estate activities | 58 659 | 2,5 | 275 884 | 1,1 |
Scientific and technical activities; administrative and support services | 357 974 | 15,3 | 3 242 633 | 12,6 |
General government, education, human healthcare and social action | 295 898 | 12,6 | 8 201 640 | 31,9 |
Other service activities | 210 583 | 9,0 | 954 105 | 3,7 |
- Scope: excluding the defense sector and individual employers.
- Source: Insee, FLORES in geography as of 01/01/2023.
tableauRES T5 - Individual employers at the end of 2021
Individual employers | ||
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Number | % | |
Altogether | 3 458 922 | 100,0 |
Employers of childminders | 1 095 456 | 31,7 |
Employers of other employees | 2 363 466 | 68,3 |
- Scope: private employers.
- Source: Insee, Flores (Localized Compensation and Employee Employment File) in geography as of 01/01/2023.
Avertissement
INSEE makes localized data from Flores available to the municipal level. However, at this geographic scale, the results of this data warehouse have not been validated by experts. Each user is therefore called upon to exercise good judgment concerning the plausibility and relevance of the results, in particular in limited geographic or sectoral fields. As far as possible, the analyzes should relate to areas "of sufficient size" (several thousand salaried positions), in order to limit the errors which could be due to occasional erroneous declarations on the part of certain establishments.
The status of municipal data from Flores differs in particular from that of Employment estimates, which are subject to full validation by experts and which are disseminated at a more aggregated level (department and employment area at the finest level). In other words, the municipal data, in return for their finesse, do not benefit from the same validation and adjustment framework.
Sources
The Localized Compensation and Employee Employment File (Flores) is a set of microeconomic data files that describe paid employment and compensation at establishment level. The main objective is to serve as a basis for national or local studies, to describe the economic fabric of a given territory down to the level of the municipality.
A general presentation of the source Flores is accessible in the section "Definitions, Methods and quality" of the insee.fr site.
Définitions
A local unit is a production unit that is geographically individual but legally dependent on a legal unit.An establishment produces goods or services: it can be a factory, a bakery, a clothing store, one of the hotels of a hotel chain, the "shop" of a repairer of computer hardware ...
The establishment or production unit is the most suitable level for a geographical approach to the economy.
The population of establishments is relatively stable over time and is less affected by corporate and financial restructuring than that of companies.
When a legal unit runs its business in several establishment, one of them has the status of main establishment (sole proprietorship) or head office (company).
In employment and wage statistics, a job (or position) corresponds to the relationship of an employee and an establishment during a given period of time. Thus, an employee who works in two establishments (on a given date or over a certain period of time, such as a year) occupies two positions. Conversely, several employment contracts between the employee and the same establishment (on a given date or successively over a certain period of time) constitute a single position.
The concept of main position allows for only one position per employee. An employee's main position is the most remunerative position. The concept of an "additional" position makes it possible to exclude from certain statistics positions with a low volume of work and a low level of associated remuneration.
In the general case, a position is considered to be "non-additional" if the remuneration is higher than 3 monthly minimum wage rates or if the duration of employment exceeds 30 days and 120 hours and the number of hours/duration ratio is higher than 1.5.
The job is the basic statistical unit for the results from the "All-employee" files, DADS (annual declaration of social data), Siasp (System for information on civil servants), Clap (local knowledge of the productive system) and Flores (pay and salaried employment localized file), which succeeds Clap from 2017.
The partition of the economy in two spheres, "presential" and "productive", enables a better understanding of the spatial activities' logic and highlights the openness of local production systems.
It also helps provide an analysis grid for the outsourcing processes and the other economic changes taking place in the territories.
The "presential" activities are activities implemented locally for the production of goods and services aiming at the satisfaction of the needs of persons present in the area, whether residents or tourists.
Productive activities are determined by difference. These are activities that produce goods mainly consumed outside the area and services activities provided mainly to the companies of the productive sphere.
As of June 2015, the name "productive sphere" replaces that of "non- presential sphere". The distribution of activities is not affected.
As of January 2010, this new definition replaces the old one with its three spheres: "productive", "residential" and "public".
Champ
The Flores system (Localized remuneration and salaried employment file) covers establishments that have employed at least one employee during the year, in France excluding Mayotte. In this municipal database, the data made available is also restricted to establishments active at the end of the year (last week of December), which excludes establishments that ceased their activity during the year.
The salaried workforce at the end of the year corresponds to the number of positions present in the last week of December in the employing establishment. The workforce at the end of the year in some establishments may therefore be zero, if the employee (s) during the year were no longer employed at the end of December.
Flores covers all salaried employment, regardless of the sector of activity and the type of employer (public or private, including individual employers). Establishments under the Ministry of the Armed Forces (military personnel as well as civilians) are excluded from the scope.
Géographie
The 2021 data are disseminated according to the geography in effect on January 1, 2023.