Besançon
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2025, Besançon spent 41.6 M€ on this. That is €340 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
More than elsewhere. Besançon devotes 29.6% of its operating budget to this. Towns of 100,000 inhabitants and over usually devote 22.5%.
In euros per inhabitant: €340, against €305 usually (+11 %).
What for?
Museums11.1 M€
Other youth activities6.1 M€
Shared services4.5 M€
Swimming pools4.4 M€
Libraries and media libraries3.8 M€
Theatres and live performance2.7 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums2.7 M€
Arts activities and cultural events1.5 M€
Cinemas and other performance venues1.5 M€
Other1.0 M€
Heritage838 k€
Other sports and leisure facilities711 k€
Other areas727 k€
Spent on what?
Basic pay9.6 M€
Other private bodies5.5 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay3.7 M€
Pension fund contributions3.7 M€
Social security agency contributions2.9 M€
Other allowances2.8 M€
Joint bodies2.7 M€
Energy — electricity2.3 M€
Purchases of services (other than land for development)1.5 M€
Bonuses and other allowances806 k€
Operating grants to individuals, associations and other private bodies801 k€
Municipal social action centre578 k€
Other types of spending4.8 M€
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.