page_title: Sonvilier
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Sonvilier / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: Cheese dairy Chaux-d'Abel in La Chaux-d'Abel; Berne, Switzerland. Deutsch: Käserei Chaux-d'Abel in La Chaux-d'Abel; Bern, Schweiz.
context_page_description: Sonvilier is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura.
context_section_description: As of  2011, Sonvilier had an unemployment rate of 2.57%.  As of 2008, there were a total of 269 people employed in the municipality.  Of these, there were 119 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 45 businesses involved in this sector.  24 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 8 businesses in this sector.  126 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 26 businesses in this sector.  There were 536 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.0% of the workforce.
  In 2008 there were a total of 204 full-time equivalent jobs.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 85, all of which were in agriculture.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 22 of which 5 or (22.7%) were in manufacturing and 17 (77.3%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 97.  In the tertiary sector; 16 or 16.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 7 or 7.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 9 or 9.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 8 or 8.2% were in education and 41 or 42.3% were in health care.
  In 2000, there were 78 workers who commuted into the municipality and 346 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.  About 5.1% of the workforce coming into Sonvilier are coming from outside Switzerland.  Of the working population, 10.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 61% used a private car.
caption: Chaux-d'Abel cheese dairy
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