Characteristics of establishments at the end of 2021 France métropolitaine
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 | 2 280 672 | 100,0 | 215 510 | 1 652 592 | 204 520 | 126 781 | 81 269 |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 110 020 | 4,8 | 18 867 | 86 882 | 2 847 | 1 078 | 346 |
Industrial economy | 146 089 | 6,4 | 8 202 | 89 390 | 21 925 | 15 268 | 11 304 |
Building industry | 254 131 | 11,1 | 27 693 | 190 627 | 21 265 | 10 900 | 3 646 |
Trade, transport, various services | 1 482 730 | 65,0 | 148 406 | 1 113 351 | 119 441 | 66 874 | 34 658 |
including trade and car repair | 433 493 | 19,0 | 32 138 | 332 919 | 39 278 | 20 017 | 9 141 |
Administration publique, enseignement, santé, action sociale | 287 702 | 12,6 | 12 342 | 172 342 | 39 042 | 32 661 | 31 315 |
- 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 | 25 143 841 | 100,0 | 4 955 887 | 2 733 744 | 3 870 486 | 3 223 065 | 10 360 659 |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 284 320 | 1,1 | 180 255 | 37 081 | 31 502 | 15 525 | 19 957 |
Industrial economy | 3 155 978 | 12,6 | 334 320 | 296 508 | 469 308 | 383 563 | 1 672 279 |
Building industry | 1 564 333 | 6,2 | 573 163 | 282 323 | 324 225 | 169 107 | 215 515 |
Trade, transport, various services | 12 193 592 | 48,5 | 3 289 936 | 1 586 431 | 2 017 462 | 1 348 730 | 3 951 033 |
including trade and car repair | 3 417 576 | 13,6 | 1 111 578 | 517 415 | 600 098 | 374 174 | 814 311 |
Administration publique, enseignement, santé, action sociale | 7 945 618 | 31,6 | 578 213 | 531 401 | 1 027 989 | 1 306 140 | 4 501 875 |
- 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* | 6,4 |
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 | 3,6 |
20 to 49 employees | 5,6 |
10 to 19 employees | 9,0 |
1 to 9 employee(s) | 72,5 |
0 employee | 9,4 |
- 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 | 2 280 672 | 100,0 | 25 143 841 | 100,0 |
Productive sphere* | 751 816 | 33,0 | 8 943 916 | 35,6 |
of which public domain* | 1 257 | 0,1 | 142 937 | 0,6 |
Presential sphere | 1 528 856 | 67,0 | 16 199 925 | 64,4 |
of which public domain* | 127 385 | 5,6 | 5 372 469 | 21,4 |
- 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 | 2 280 672 | 100,0 | 25 143 841 | 100,0 |
Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 110 020 | 4,8 | 284 320 | 1,1 |
Manufacture of food, drink and tobacco products | 47 587 | 2,1 | 628 877 | 2,5 |
Coking and refining | 55 | 0,0 | 8 394 | 0,0 |
Manufacture of electrical, electronic and computer equipment; machinery manufacturing | 9 011 | 0,4 | 403 785 | 1,6 |
Manufacture of transport equipment | 2 761 | 0,1 | 344 479 | 1,4 |
Manufacture of other industrial products | 70 037 | 3,1 | 1 383 678 | 5,5 |
Extractive industries, energy, water, waste management and pollution control | 16 638 | 0,7 | 386 765 | 1,5 |
Building industry | 254 131 | 11,1 | 1 564 333 | 6,2 |
Trade ; repair of automobiles and motorcycles | 433 493 | 19,0 | 3 417 576 | 13,6 |
Transportation and warehousing | 67 982 | 3,0 | 1 420 005 | 5,6 |
Accommodation and catering | 207 211 | 9,1 | 1 185 805 | 4,7 |
Information and communication | 63 905 | 2,8 | 886 751 | 3,5 |
Financial and insurance activities | 97 222 | 4,3 | 895 191 | 3,6 |
Real estate activities | 57 404 | 2,5 | 271 178 | 1,1 |
Scientific and technical activities; administrative and support services | 349 869 | 15,3 | 3 186 449 | 12,7 |
General government, education, human healthcare and social action | 287 702 | 12,6 | 7 945 618 | 31,6 |
Other service activities | 205 644 | 9,0 | 930 637 | 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 | 3 395 327 | 100,0 |
Employers of childminders | 1 082 400 | 31,9 |
Employers of other employees | 2 312 927 | 68,1 |
- 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.