The southern Essonne department specialises in science and technology, and the south-eastern Val-de-Marne, with its wholesale Rungis food market, specialises in food processing and beverages. The Paris region's manufacturing decline is quickly being replaced by eco-industries: these employ about 100,000 workers. In 2011, while only 56,927 construction workers worked in Paris itself, its metropolitan area employed 246,639, in an activity centred largely around the Seine-Saint-Denis (41,378) and Hauts-de-Seine (37,303) departments and the new business-park centres appearing there.
How many construction workers were employed in the metropolitan area?
246,639
In 2011, while only 56,927 construction workers worked in Paris itself, its metropolitan area employed 246,639, in an activity centred largely around the Seine-Saint-Denis (41,378) and Hauts-de-Seine (37,303) departments and the new business-park centres appearing there.
In twenty eleven, while only fifty-six thousand, nine hundred twenty-seven construction workers worked in Paris itself, its metropolitan area employed two hundred forty-six thousand, six hundred thirty-nine, in an activity centred largely around the Seine-Saint-Denis (forty-one thousand, three hundred seventy-eight) and Hauts-de-Seine (thirty-seven thousand, three hundred three) departments and the new business-park centres appearing there.
How many construction workers were employed in the metropolitan area?