Recently released statistics show that more than half of residents of certain regions of France were employed in Switzerland in 2018.
The data, published by INSEE, a French statistics agency, revealed that more than half of households in the communes of Genevois, Pays de Gex and Annemasse-Les Voirons, all border regions with Switzerland, had family members who worked abroad, almost all of them in Switzerland.
In In the communes of Genevois, 67% of households had a person working in Switzerland. In the Pays de Gex, the same figure was 64% and in Annemasse-les Voirons 51%. Other French municipalities heavily dependent on Swiss jobs were Arve and Salève (53%), Station of Les Rousses-Haut in the Jura (58%) and Lakes and Mountains of Haut-Doubs (61%).
Across all the regions covered, 129,400 households in France were dependent on cross-border employment. The top 10 regions accounted for 77% of this total. These regions include: Pays de Gex (21,220), Annemasse-les Voirons (18,230), Thonon (14,660), Genevois (12,350), Grand Annecy (11,730), Pays d’Évian Vallée d’Abondance (6 020), Lakes and Mountains of Haut-Doubs (4,330), Arve and Salève (4,040), Pays Rochois (3,770) and Quatre Rivières (3,100).
In the French department of Haute-Savoie, 26% of households received income from abroad. The departments of Moselle (17%), Haut-Rhin (17%), Doubs (13%) and Ain (10%) also have significant percentages of households with cross-border workers.
A couple with children was the most common household profile for people with cross-border employment.
The average standard of living of cross-border workers is significantly higher than the French average. Half of these households earned more than 39,700 euros per year. In France as a whole, only 10% of households had such high incomes.
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