Map visualisation service (WMS) of the dataset: Urban Areas — Hautes-Pyrénées

An urban area or “large urban area” is a set of municipalities, of a single tenant and without enclave, consisting of an urban cluster (urban unit) of more than 10 000 jobs, and by rural municipalities or urban units (peri-urban crown) of which at least 40 % of the resident population with a job works in the pole or in municipalities attracted to it.

Urban zoning 2010 also distinguishes:

— the ‘average areas’, a set of municipalities, of a single tenant and without enclave, consisting of a pole (urban unit) of 5 000 to 10 000 jobs, and by rural municipalities or urban units of which at least 40 % of the resident population with employment works in the pole or in municipalities attracted to it.

— the ‘small areas’, a set of municipalities, of a single holding and without enclave, consisting of a pole (urban unit) of 1 500 to 5 000 jobs, and by rural municipalities or urban units of which at least 40 % of the resident population with employment works in the pole or in municipalities attracted to it.