Companies in France 2020 edition
Cet ouvrage offre une vue structurelle complète de notre système productif. Les résultats
sur l’année 2018 sont analysés dans une vue d’ensemble qui rend compte de la diversité
des situations des entreprises, en se basant sur la définition de l’entreprise au
sens économique. Ensuite, un premier dossier étudie les disparités territoriales d’accès
aux commerces. Le second analyse les fonds propres des très petites entreprises et
leur risque de défaillance en 2019.
Enfin, des fiches thématiques et sectorielles présentent les chiffres de référence
sur les entreprises.
Less accessible businesses in suburban areas
Arthur Cazaubiel, Clément Cohen (Insee)
In 2017, the vast majority of the population lived near a food store or pharmacy: four out of five consumers lived within 2 kilometres of a bakery and 65% of the amounts spent at pharmacies took place in the municipality of residence. While the distribution of the retail space of shops is similar to that of the population, the industry-specific differences are significant. For example, non-specialised food and clothing shops are the furthest away from consumers. However, consumers do not exclusively frequent the closest shop to their home: to calculate a consumer’s accessibility to the businesses in a particular industry, all the shops around him or her must be taken into account.
Inequalities of access appear between different areas. One in three residents has limited access to clothing supplies. The further away from city centres, the less accessible shops are: on the outskirts of large urban centres, one in five residents has little access to the products available. This is the case for nearly one in three people living on the outskirts of medium and small town centres.