Armentières
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2025, Armentières spent 8.6 M€ on this. That is €332 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
More than elsewhere. Armentières devotes 26.5% of its operating budget to this. Towns of 20,000 to 50,000 inhabitants usually devote 20.1%.
In euros per inhabitant: €332, against €258 usually (+29 %).
What for?
Leisure centres2.3 M€
Shared services1.7 M€
Other youth activities936 k€
Arts activities and cultural events936 k€
Libraries and media libraries920 k€
Swimming pools631 k€
Sports halls and gymnasiums561 k€
Theatres and live performance408 k€
Archive services84 k€
Stadiums44 k€
Heritage38 k€
Cinemas and other performance venues12 k€
Other areas15 k€
Spent on what?
Basic pay1.9 M€
Other private bodies1.2 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay1.1 M€
Pension fund contributions722 k€
Social security agency contributions633 k€
Other joint bodies631 k€
Energy — electricity554 k€
Other allowances363 k€
Public buildings188 k€
Bonuses and other allowances183 k€
Transport of people outside the authority137 k€
Service contracts129 k€
Other types of spending939 k€
Towns of the same size, around it by share of budget
2025 operating expenditure, as the town voted it by function. Source: DGFiP — balances comptables, présentation croisée nature-fonction. The comparison is first on the share of the operating budget — the reading that does not depend on how wealthy the town is — then on euros per inhabitant, against the median of towns in the same DGFiP population band. Transfers to the inter-municipal body are excluded on both sides.