# EU regions (NUTS 2) by persons employed, wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles (Spain), 2024

All 19 values come from Instituto Nacional de Estadística for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `trade_persons_employed_trade`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Persons employed (personal ocupado: paid staff plus working owners, partners and unpaid family members, full or part time) in the local units of enterprises whose main activity is wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles (CNAE 2009 section G), by the comunidad where each local unit is located, from the regional results of the INE structural business statistics for the trade sector (Estadística Estructural de Empresas: Sector Comercio).
- Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por mayor y al por menor y reparación de vehículos de motor (CNAE G), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817) (https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817)
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- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). Estadística estructural de empresas, sector comercio: personal ocupado, comercio al por mayor y al por menor y reparación de vehículos de motor (CNAE G), por comunidad autónoma (tabla 76817). https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=76817. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/persons-employed-trade-spain/eu-regions

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Catalonia | 597,429 |
| 2 | Andalusia | 530,828 |
| 3 | Community of Madrid | 512,300 |
| 4 | Valencian Community | 385,309 |
| 5 | Galicia | 171,329 |
| 6 | Canary Islands | 158,044 |
| 7 | Castile and León | 132,950 |
| 8 | Region of Murcia | 128,243 |
| 9 | Basque Country | 118,179 |
| 10 | Castilla-La Mancha | 111,007 |
| 11 | Aragon | 82,667 |
| 12 | Balearic Islands | 78,889 |
| 13 | Asturias | 57,295 |
| 14 | Extremadura | 57,001 |
| 15 | Navarre | 35,108 |
| 16 | Cantabria | 31,472 |
| 17 | La Rioja | 16,869 |
| 18 | Melilla | 3,540 |
| 19 | Ceuta | 3,224 |