Caen
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2025, Caen spent 30.4 M€ on this. That is €275 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
More than elsewhere. Caen devotes 26.6% of its operating budget to this. Towns of 100,000 inhabitants and over usually devote 22.5%.
In euros per inhabitant: €275, against €305 usually (−10 %).
What for?
Museums7.1 M€
Other youth activities6.4 M€
Theatres and live performance4.2 M€
Shared services4.0 M€
Arts activities and cultural events3.2 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums3.1 M€
Sports events1.3 M€
Heritage407 k€
Stadiums321 k€
Archive services172 k€
Other sports and leisure facilities96 k€
Cinemas and other performance venues76 k€
Other11 k€
Spent on what?
Other private bodies9.3 M€
Deficit of administrative ancillary budgets4.2 M€
Basic pay4.0 M€
Pension fund contributions1.5 M€
Energy — electricity1.5 M€
Other allowances1.2 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay1.0 M€
Businesses954 k€
Social security agency contributions918 k€
Miscellaneous public bodies750 k€
Service contracts717 k€
Advertising, publications and public relations — miscellaneous549 k€
Other types of spending3.8 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.