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Grenoble-Isere is well served by air transport, road and river, with a modern telecommunications network
Grenoble-Isère is in an ideal position to develop new markets.
- Turin, Milan and northern Italy are very close
- Geneva is only an hour and a half away
- Lyon, an hour away by car
- Marseille and the mediteranean sea.
At the doorway to southern Europe
Grenoble-Isère is strategically placed between the industrial centres of northern Europe and the fast developing South.
The central position of Isère offers access to an enormous potential market:
- 14 million consumers within a radius of 250 kilometres
- 43 million consumers within 400 kilometres
- 180 million consumers within 800 kilometres, or one day by truck
The poxer of the Rhône-Alpes region
Rhône-Alpes is one of Europe's most prosperous and dynamic regions. It rates as the second most prosperous region in France, after Paris-Ile-de-France, with a gross interior product per inhabitant 6% higher than the average for the European Union. The land surface of Rhône-Alpes is equivalent to that of Belgium, Switzerland or the Netherlands, with a population of 6 068 000 inhabitants, comparable to Denmark or Finland.
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Population
(INSEE-Estimate AEPI 2006)
Grenoble-Isère | 1,185,400 |
Rhône-Alpes | 6,068,000 |
Mainland France | 61,600,000 |
European Union (27 countries) | 494,700,000 |
Density
Isère | 154 people per sq km |
Rhône-Alpes | 135 people per sq km |
France | 111 people per sq km |
Main urban areas (three-quarters of the population live in an urban area)
- Two main urban centres: the Grenoble urban area and the north of the Isère department.
- Three-quarters of the population live in an urban area.
Grenoble | 435,400 |
Isle d'Abeau / Villefontaine / Bourgoin-Jallieu (Nord Isère) | 82,000 |
Voiron | 45,600 |
Vienne | 42,000 |
Population under 20 as a proportion of total
Isère | 26 % |
Rhône-Alpes | 26 % |
France | 25 % |
Active population in work: Grenoble-Isère = 482,700
Employees | Workers | Intermediary professions | Executives and knowledge workers | Contractors and traders | |
Grenoble-Isère | 26.2% | 25.9% | 25.1% | 14.2% | 7.0% |
Rhône Alpes | 27.2% | 26.6% | 24.3% | 12.4% | 7.5% |
France | 28.9% | 25,6% | 23,1% | 13,1% | 6,7% |
A consumer market with 14 million people within 250 km.
Land area
Grenoble-Isère: 7,431 sq km (of which 3,500 sq km mountain terrain)
Tenth largest department in France.
Climate, straddling the 40th parallel:
Average temperatures observed in Grenoble over the last 45 years:
- January +1.9°C
- July: +20.6°C
- annual average: +11.4°C.
Sunshine: 2,000 hours per year, as much as Toulouse and Bordeaux, both located further south, and more than the Paris area (1,800 hours).
Environment: a wide range of altitude and terrain
Grenoble, capital of the French Alps, yet set on a plain (213m)
Rhône and Isère valleys climbing from 150m to 280m*
Chartreuse, Belledonne and Vercors ranges: from 600m to 1,200m*
Oisans valley: 1,400m to 1,650m*: famous peaks: Les Ecrins 4,101m and La Meije 3,883m.
*Altitude of centres of population
Three natural parks
- Vercors (175,000 hectares), regional natural park.
- Chartreuse (63,000 hectares), regional natural park.
- Ecrins (91,740 hectares), national park.
2,100 kilometres of rivers, more than 100 lakes and ponds