Bordeaux
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2025, Bordeaux spent 107.3 M€ on this. That is €404 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
More than elsewhere. Bordeaux devotes 29.6% of its operating budget to this. Towns of 100,000 inhabitants and over usually devote 22.5%.
In euros per inhabitant: €404, against €305 usually (+32 %).
What for?
Arts activities and cultural events17.6 M€
Theatres and live performance16.9 M€
Museums15.4 M€
Libraries and media libraries13.2 M€
Leisure centres12.3 M€
Shared services11.5 M€
Swimming pools5.7 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums5.2 M€
Other youth activities3.3 M€
Sports events2.8 M€
Other sports and leisure facilities2.5 M€
Stadiums602 k€
Other areas286 k€
Spent on what?
Basic pay23.0 M€
Other private bodies21.8 M€
Other local public bodies16.6 M€
Pension fund contributions8.6 M€
Other allowances7.9 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay6.6 M€
Social security agency contributions5.6 M€
Businesses2.9 M€
Intermediary fees and professional fees — miscellaneous2.4 M€
Operating grants to individuals, associations and other private bodies1.6 M€
Other materials and supplies971 k€
Security and caretaking886 k€
Other types of spending8.3 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.