Editing Rodez (section)

===Employment===
Today, Rodez is the main employment area of Aveyron. The population is organized around {{Interlanguage link multi|Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Rodez|fr|3=Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Rodez|lt=Grand Rodez}}, which concentrates the largest number of jobs with high-growth sectors as health, education, trade, food processing (dairy, cheese, meat processing), the wood furniture sector, mechanics, computer science, tertiary industries, aviation and research. The Aveyron inhabitants have three lives in the area of influence of Rodez. The geographical location of Rodez at the junction of the major Aveyron communication routes has long channelled a rural exodus to the prefecture: The presence of an airport and the improvement of the road network to Toulouse today contributes to the dynamism of the Rodez area with the emergence of many jobs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/document.asp?reg_id=7&ref_id=19241|title=Regards sur l'Aveyron - Panorama du département - novembre 2012|access-date=29 April 2015}}</ref>

In January 2017, the [[workforce|active population]] of the municipality was 10,994 people, or 70.4% of its inhabitants aged 15–64 years. The unemployment rate among those aged 15–64 was 9.2%.<ref name=complet/>

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! colspan="6"|Distribution over 15 years by sector of activity (2017)<ref name="complet"/>
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!style="width:40%;"|  !! style="width:12%;"| Agriculture !! style="width:12%;"|Industry !! style="width:12%;"|Construction !! style="width:12%;"|Commerce !! style="width:12%;"|Services
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| Rodez || 0.8% || 7.9% || 4.9% || 43.4% || 43.0%
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