page_title: La Sagne
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: La Sagne / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick auf das Vallée des Ponts bei La Sagne
context_page_description: La Sagne is a municipality in the district of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
context_section_description: As of  2010, La Sagne had an unemployment rate of 2.6%.  As of 2008, there were 89 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 40 businesses involved in this sector.  71 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 15 businesses in this sector.  222 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 30 businesses in this sector.  There were 494 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.3% of the workforce.
  In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 314.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 69, of which 68 were in agriculture and 1 was in forestry or lumber production.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 66 of which 43 or (65.2%) were in manufacturing and 23 (34.8%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 179.  In the tertiary sector; 33 or 18.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 12 or 6.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 16 or 8.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 24 or 13.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 4 or 2.2% were in education and 82 or 45.8% were in health care.
  In 2000, there were 167 workers who commuted into the municipality and 274 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.6 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.  About 16.8% of the workforce coming into La Sagne are coming from outside Switzerland.  Of the working population, 9.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 53.2% used a private car.
caption: Rail line through Vallée des Pont near La Sagne
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