High level of population growth

There has been a real population boom in the Orleans Loire Valley Agglomeration since the 1990 census. According to the French magazine Le Point which published a league table of French towns in 2004, Orleans Loire Valley is the urban area with the strongest population growth.

	Population	Salaried workforce	Students	Persons registered with the French national employment bureau (ANPE)	Companies
Orleans Loire Valley	274 000	132 400	20 000	11 000	7 064