page_title: Düdingen
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Düdingen / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Düdingen, Getreidesilos
context_page_description: Düdingen is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
context_section_description: As of  2010, Düdingen had an unemployment rate of 1.9%.  As of 2008, there were 243 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 88 businesses involved in this sector.  1,213 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 78 businesses in this sector.  1,687 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 236 businesses in this sector.  There were 3,675 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.6% of the workforce.
  In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 2,654.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 167, all of which were in agriculture.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1,154 of which 733 or (63.5%) were in manufacturing, 6 or (0.5%) were in mining and 404 (35.0%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 1,333.  In the tertiary sector; 531 or 39.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 28 or 2.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 115 or 8.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 21 or 1.6% were in the information industry, 84 or 6.3% were the insurance or financial industry, 159 or 11.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 79 or 5.9% were in education and 204 or 15.3% were in health care.
  In 2000, there were 1,746 workers who commuted into the municipality and 2,230 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.  Of the working population, 16.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 60.6% used a private car.
caption: Grain silo and rail road in Düdingen
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