Technology, which provides lessons in agronomy, DUT engineering of the environment, DUT administrative and commercial management, DUT quality industrial logistics and organization, business tourism, geomatics professional license A (ESPE) Sports Digne was elected as the among towns with less than 20,000 inhabitants in 2006, by the daily newspaper L'Équipe. The town has several sports facilities, with free access or reserved for the many sporting clubs and schools. These include gyms, a stadium, an equestrian centre, a golf course, and a public swimming pool. It is one of the rare French towns to provide free access to tennis courts. At the request of the Junior Town Council, a skatepark has been renovated which is open access. Health The town's hospitals have 480 beds. Garrison city The following units have held garrison in Digne: (one battalion in the middle of the 19th century); Currently, several gendarmerie units are based in Digne. In addition to the capital of community brigade, there is a motorised brigade, a (PSIG) and a squadron of Mobile Gendarmerie. Religion For Catholic worship, the city is the seat of the departmental bishopric, and therefore the Diocese of Digne, Riez and Sisteron. The bishop is Monsignor . He was appointed in 2014 and is the youngest Bishop of France (born in 1965). The Catholic faithful have two places of worship for mass: and Saint-Jérôme. The members of the Muslim faith also have their place of worship, as well as Protestants and Evangelicals. Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard retired here in 2019 from Bordeaux. He later admitted to "behav[ing] in a reprehensible way with a young girl aged 14" while at Marseilles some 35 years previously, as confirmed on 7 November 2022 by Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, the president of the Bishops' Conference of France. Economy Revenues of the population and taxation Employment In 2017, the active population amounted to 6,422 persons, including 939 unemployed. These workers are mostly employed (86%) and are employed in the town (83%). Agriculture At the end of 2015, the primary sector (agriculture, forestry, fishing) had 27 active institutions within the meaning of INSEE (including non-professional operators) and 144 salaried jobs. The number of professional farms, according to the Agreste survey of the Ministry of Agriculture, is 37 in 2010. It was 44 in 2000, and 106 in 1988. Currently, these operators are essentially turned to breeding sheep and cattle. From 1988 to 2000, the useful agricultural land