The economy of the Meuse

Callings & incomes

In the Meuse, the proportion of farmers is higher than the national average: this chapter will tell you more about it.

Employment & professional insertion

At the beginning of the 20th century, more than the half of the inhabitants of the Meuse lived on agriculture. But times have changed...

Agriculture & forests

Or why does the Meuse deserve the appellation of “The Green Region”.

Industry

It employs 25% of the working population, but how ?

Arts and crafts & services

There are 220 callings for 2339 craft enterprises, 2142 trades and 1158 sevice enterprises: it’s quite good!

Housing

On average, flats are older than anywhere else in France, that’s the way it goes in a rural region...

Communications

The winner is the Meuse with 17 metres of routes per inhabitants againts 6 metres for the national average!

Health

A homogeneous geographic repartition provides an efficient cover to the region.

Education

From the nursery school to the university, the young inhabitants of the Meuse are given all their chances for their studies.

Tourism

Jeanne d’Arc, Charles Quint, Louis XVI,etc...All of them left their traces in our region, so why shouldn’t you ?

Intermunicipality

This is the solution to fight against the problems of a rural region.

Meuse 2015

“Build up together tomorrow’s Meuse” is this scheme’s motto. But how do they want to achieve it ? Refer to this chapter and you will know everything.

callings & incomes / employment & professional insertion / agriculture & forests / industry

arts andcrafts & services / housing / communications / health / education / tourism / intermunicipality

Meuse 2015

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