page_title: Chêne-Bourg
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Chêne-Bourg / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Gare de Chêne-Bourg, désaffectée. TER en direction d'Annemasse.
context_page_description: Chêne-Bourg is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
context_section_description: The workshop of watchmaker Frédérique Constant can be found in Chêne-Bourg.
  As of  2010, Chêne-Bourg had an unemployment rate of 7.4%.  As of 2008, there were 2 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 1 business involved in this sector.  1,032 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 83 businesses in this sector.  1,776 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 320 businesses in this sector.  There were 3,606 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 48.2% of the workforce.
  In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 2,504.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 1, all of which were in agriculture.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1,003 of which 768 or (76.6%) were in manufacturing and 234 (23.3%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 1,500.  In the tertiary sector; 439 or 29.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 66 or 4.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 108 or 7.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 142 or 9.5% were in the information industry, 68 or 4.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 170 or 11.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 90 or 6.0% were in education and 181 or 12.1% were in health care.
  In 2000, there were 3,332 workers who commuted into the municipality and 2,990 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.1 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.  About 21.2% of the workforce coming into Chêne-Bourg are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work.  Of the working population, 36% used public transportation to get to work, and 41.3% used a private car.
caption: Modern trains connect Chêne-Bourg to Geneva and other destinations
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