Editing Avignon (section)

=== Areas of economic activity ===
There are nine main areas of economic activity in Avignon.<ref name="ZAE">[http://www.avignonvaucluse.cci.fr/dynamiques/doc/LISTE-ZAE-MIS-EN-PAGE1.pdf Principal areas of activity in the department] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108132701/http://www.avignonvaucluse.cci.fr/dynamiques/doc/LISTE-ZAE-MIS-EN-PAGE1.pdf |date=8 January 2012 }}, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vaucluse, consulted on 19 October 2011 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

The Courtine area is the largest with nearly 300 businesses (of which roughly half are service establishments, one third are shops, and the rest related to industry) and more than 3,600 jobs.<ref name="ZAE"/> The site covers an area of 300 hectares and is located south-west of the city at the TGV railway station.

Then comes the Fontcouverte area with a hundred establishments representing a thousand jobs. It is, however, more oriented towards shops than the Courtine area.<ref name="ZAE"/>

The MIN area of Avignon is the Agroparc area{{efn|This area has had the INRA Centre which carries out scientific research in engineering environmental management for cultivated land and forests since 1953.}} (or "Technopole Agroparc"). The Cristole area is contiguous and both have a little less than a hundred establishments.<ref name="ZAE"/>

Finally, the areas of Castelette, Croix de Noves, Realpanier, and the airport each have fewer than 25 establishments spread between service activities and shops. The area of the Castelette alone represents more than 600 jobs—i.e. 100 more than Cristole.<ref name="ZAE"/>