page_title: La Neuveville
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: La Neuveville / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bahnhof la Neuveville/BE Schweiz
context_page_description: La Neuveville is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura.
context_section_description: As of  2011, La Neuveville had an unemployment rate of 1.7%.  As of 2008, there were a total of 1,468 people employed in the municipality.  Of these, there were 48 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 20 businesses involved in this sector.  578 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 44 businesses in this sector.  842 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 127 businesses in this sector.  There were 1,650 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.8% of the workforce.
  In 2008 there were a total of 1,223 full-time equivalent jobs.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 34, all of which were in agriculture.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 536 of which 451 or (84.1%) were in manufacturing and 69 (12.9%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 653.  In the tertiary sector; 123 or 18.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 48 or 7.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 66 or 10.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 13 or 2.0% were in the information industry, 15 or 2.3% were the insurance or financial industry, 61 or 9.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 50 or 7.7% were in education and 223 or 34.2% were in health care.
  In 2000, there were 809 workers who commuted into the municipality and 928 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.  A total of 722 workers (47.2% of the 1,531 total workers in the municipality) both lived and worked in La Neuveville.
  Of the working population, 13.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 56.2% used a private car.
  In 2011 the average local and cantonal tax rate on a married resident of La Neuveville making 150,000 CHF was 12.4%, while an unmarried resident's rate was 18.2%.  For comparison, the average rate for the entire canton in 2006 was 13.9% and the nationwide rate was 11.6%.  In 2009 there were a total of 1,538 tax payers in the municipality.  Of that total, 603 made over 75 thousand CHF per year.  There were 9 people who made between 15 and 20 thousand per year.  The average income of the over 75,000 CHF group in La Neuveville was 132,219 CHF, while the average across all of Switzerland was 130,478 CHF.
caption: La Neuveville train station
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