User:Benjamin Pocheron/EconomyofDijon

= Dijon: Economy =  Note to the grader :

I enjoyed that Dijon’s Wikipedia page does not have an economic section to dive into this part. (Link to the original Wikipedia page of Dijon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijon ) Being from Dijon, I had a pretty interesting moment working on this second Wikipedia project. Most of the sources are in French, but from reliable French websites, of course. Pr. Wright allowed me to post this part this week. I therefore tried to work on more sources than the 10 required. Thank you and good luck with all the work to grade!

Main Economic Statistics
According to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), Dijon’s census reported a population of 155,114 inhabitants in 2015, ranking Dijon 17th among the most populated cities in France. With a population density of 3,838.5 inhabitants per km² (1,482.05 inhabitants per mi²), Dijon is the densest city in Burgundy. However, on a national scale, Dijon is the 145th densest city. Still in 2015, Dijon’s median available income per unit of consumption reached 20,837€, ($22,625 if we consider the exchange rate on December 31st, 2015). The same year, France’s median available income per unit of consumption reached 20,300€, which is 2.58% less than the city of Dijon. Regarding the poverty rate in 2015, the trend was reversed: Dijon’s poverty rate averaged 14.9% while France’s poverty rate totaled 14.2%. On the opposite, Dijon’s unemployment rate, 9,4% in 2015, is lowered that France’s unemployment rate that same year, 10.0%. Concerning the 2015 taxes, Dijon did not escape from the overall increase in taxes. For example, in 2015, the property tax increased to reach 22.75%. While the property tax varies locally in each French city between 0.01% and more than 50.0%, Dijon’s property tax is higher than the average French interval of [19%-21%].

Development of Dijon's Economic Activity
By being located at the bottom-left corner of the northeast area of France, Dijon lays in the middle of a network city configuration composed of three main cities: Paris, Lyon and Marseille. The latter towns are connected by a specific rail system, making the economic trades and transport of goods easier. Dijon relied a lot on railways for doing its business. With the growing popularity of the tertiary sector, Dijon had to adapt. The changes the city operated led to an increase of the active local population by the third quarter of the twentieth century. At this time, Dijon’s economy was oriented towards several activity domains such as the metal industry, the food industry (agribusiness), the electrical equipment industry and the pharmaceutical industry. Today, Dijon Métropole classifies the city's areas of expertise among six fields which are the agro-foodstuffs, the metallurgy, the pharmaceutical industry, the agronomy, the packaging and the logistics. Today, Dijon has more than 22,000 companies including 98.19% of small and medium-sized enterprises. Dijon believes in its economic development. By providing poles of excellence and more than 400 acres dedicated to businesses (Areas such as Valmy, Mazen-Sully, Marché de l’agro, AgrOnov, écoparc Dijon-Bourgogne), Dijon is implementing a strategy aiming to attract more companies. The city promises that prospective businesses interested in coming to the city will have the appropriate interlocutors (financial specialists, real estate specialists, etc.) in a maximum of 24 hours. Overall, according to “L’Express L’Entreprise”, a French journal working in the French business area, Dijon is ranked 26th among in terms of French cities where businesses should efficiently grow. This study took into consideration the availability, in each city, of the university education, the labor market, the average salary and the business creation rate, inter alia.