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Occitanie · 386,066 residents · Chair: Hélène Sandragné

Aude

€623 million spent in 2025.

€1,614 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,377

What Aude spends, by policy

  • Health and social care65%€407.6M
  • Roads and transport9%€56.8M
  • Administration and shared services6%€36.2M
  • Middle schools and education5%€34.1M
  • Loans: repayments and interest4%€26.6M
  • Fire, rescue and safety3%€21M
The 6 other items (7%)
  • Town planning and housing2%€11.9M
  • Culture, sport and youth2%€11.8M
  • Environment1%€8.3M
  • Economy and trade1%€7.7M
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€46k
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€895k

Source: 2025 accounts of Aude (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €623M, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people51%€316.3M

    Minimum income, disability, elderly care, child welfare, accommodation.

  • Staff20%€124.2M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors10%€64.4M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions7%€45M
  • Banks and lenders4%€26.6M
  • Compulsory contributions4%€26.2M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Joint bodies and syndicates2%€12.7M
  • Other1%€7.6M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Aude (DGFiP).

142 contracts signed in 2025 · €69.2M before tax

Why this total differs from the €64.4M paid to companies

These are the amounts of the contracts signed in the year, over their whole length, not what was paid. The money paid in a year also goes to older contracts and to purchases too small to be published (under €40,000 excl. VAT). For a framework agreement, the amount is a ceiling.

Investment and works

€34.8M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €90 per resident. Départements of the same size: €122.

  • RD 6113-Renforcement de Lézignan-Corbières vers Conilhac-Corbières2024 · Colas France (Établissement de Narbonne)€4M
  • Réparation d’Ouvrages d’Art2023 · CBTP€4M
  • RD 5 Renforcement de chaussée depuis la limite avec l’Hérault jusqu’au pont sur le Canal du Midi à Argeliers2023 · Eurovia Languedoc Roussillon€4M
  • Travaux de revêtement sur les routes départementales 2024/2028-Division Territoriale de la Narbonnaise2024 · Eurovia Languedoc Roussillon€3M
  • Travaux de revêtement sur les routes départementales 2024/2028-Division territoriale du Carcassonnais2024 · Colas France (Établissement de Carcassonne)€3M

Largest works contracted since 2023, among published contracts. Amounts planned at signature, often spread over several years.

On top of that, €24.4M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Aude (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €593.9M · borrowing: €31M · spending: €623M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)66%€410.5M
  • State and other contributions24%€147.6M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds2%€12.3M
  • Users and rents< 1%€1.5M
  • Other receipts4%€22.1M
  • Borrowing5%€31M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€591 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €526

5.5 years of savings to repay it

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Départements of the same size”: median of the 26 départements of 267,000 to 501,000 residents.

The levels above Aude

Spending per resident in 2025, and what each level pays for.

  • DépartementAudeMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,614
  • RegionOccitanieHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €529

Each row: the body’s own spending per resident, the figure at the top of its page (DGFiP). Not to be added up: a grant from one level is spent by another.

Who is part of Aude

Understanding these figures

Who does what

The département pays for middle schools, social help (minimum income, elderly care, disability, child welfare), départemental roads, and funds the fire and rescue service.

Official table of responsibilities (July 2025)

Why the levels are not added up

The same euro can appear twice: once when a region or a département pays a grant, again when the town spends it. Each page shows its own body’s spending.

Where these figures come from

Spending: the accounts of the main budget published by the DGFiP, by public policy. Revenue, debt and taxes: OFGL. Contracts: published contract data (DECP), amounts planned at signing.

Do you work for Aude, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Aude · Sources and method

Accounts 2025 (DGFiP, OFGL). The method · See the source