Béziers
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2025, Béziers spent 17.7 M€ on this. That is €217 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
Less than elsewhere. Béziers devotes 15.7% of its operating budget to this. Towns of 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants usually devote 21.2%.
In euros per inhabitant: €217, against €300 usually (−28 %).
What for?
Shared services5.0 M€
Other youth activities3.1 M€
Arts activities and cultural events2.7 M€
Stadiums2.6 M€
Museums1.3 M€
Theatres and live performance1.1 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums424 k€
Archive services413 k€
Preventive archaeology355 k€
Cinemas and other performance venues328 k€
Heritage229 k€
Leisure centres122 k€
Other sports and leisure facilities6 k€
Spent on what?
Basic pay3.8 M€
Intermediary fees and professional fees — miscellaneous2.2 M€
Other private bodies1.7 M€
Pension fund contributions1.4 M€
Social security agency contributions979 k€
Energy — electricity926 k€
Other allowances856 k€
Businesses800 k€
Non-permanent staff — pay793 k€
Other materials and supplies646 k€
Other external services — other552 k€
Security and caretaking546 k€
Other types of spending2.6 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.