What are the regions of France where seniors work the most?

Île-de-France, champion of employment for seniors, 55-64 year olds. This is what emerges from a study by the Paris Île-de-France CCI, which compared the employment rate of seniors in the various French regions, but which also looked at several large European cities of comparable. For the whole of France, the figure to remember is therefore almost 56%. A figure up by almost 20 points compared to 20 years ago. But in the Île-de-France region, 65.2% of seniors were still at work in 2021. A difference of nine points compared to the national average.

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Working people in the Ile-de-France region are generally better qualified than others and they therefore entered working life later. To reach their full pension, they remain in employment longer. The proportion of executives is also higher in Île-de-France – the number of head offices is much greater than elsewhere. However, executives retire later, on average at 63 years old.

Île-de-France located in the middle of the table compared to other European regions

Last reason put forward: retirees from the Ile-de-France tend to join the province, automatically increasing the employment rate of seniors remaining in the capital region. Logically, we should have found on the second step of the podium the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, second on the economic level, but it is the Centre-Val-de-Loire which knows, behind the Île-de-France, the highest rate of seniors in employment. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes comes third, just ahead of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. At the bottom of the ranking, we find regions with a strong industrial dominance.

With its 65.2% of assets between 55 and 64 years old, the French capital region is far from Bavaria, which records an employment rate of seniors of nearly 75%, also far from North Holland, 71% and well behind the land of Berlin, which is ahead of it by three points. On the other hand, Île-de-France does better than the community of Madrid, than Catalonia or than Lombardy.