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Normandie · 718,172 residents · Chair: Jean-Léonce Dupont

Calvados

€844.7 million spent in 2025.

€1,176 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,197

What Calvados spends, by policy

  • Health and social care63%€529.7M
  • Roads and transport10%€83.1M
  • Middle schools and education7%€57.8M
  • Administration and shared services5%€45.5M
  • Town planning and housing4%€33.1M
  • Fire, rescue and safety3%€24.7M
The 6 other items (8%)
  • Loans: repayments and interest2%€20.1M
  • Culture, sport and youth2%€19.8M
  • Economy and trade2%€18.3M
  • Environment1%€11M
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€1.3M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€299k

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €844.7M, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people49%€417.3M

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

  • Staff18%€154.4M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors16%€130.9M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions8%€66.4M
  • Compulsory contributions4%€32.3M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Banks and lenders2%€20.1M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates2%€14.4M
  • Other1%€8.9M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Calvados (DGFiP).

212 contracts signed in 2025 · €97.3M before tax

Why this total differs from the €130.9M 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

€78M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €109 per resident. Départements of the same size: €101.

  • Réhabilitation des blocs sanitaires de 3 collèges du Département du Calvados2025 · Réseaux & Voirie Bayeux (RVB)€6.5M
  • Aménagements cyclables du Calvados2025 · 2 companies€6M
  • Programme de relampage de 13 collèges du Département du Calvados2025 · Masselin Énergie€4.8M
  • Travaux de carrelage mural dans les couloirs du collège Boris Vian à Mezidon Vallee d’Auge2025 · Fanello IDF€4M
  • Travaux d’abris à sel en maçonnerie et couverture2024 · Spie Batignolles Abscis-Bertin€2.8M

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

On top of that, €47.8M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €816.3M · borrowing: €24M · spending: €844.7M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)64%€534.3M
  • State and other contributions23%€192M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds4%€30.7M
  • Users and rents1%€8.2M
  • Other receipts6%€51M
  • Borrowing3%€24M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€191 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €450

1.6 year 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 21 départements of 512,000 to 744,000 residents.

The levels above Calvados

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

  • DépartementCalvadosMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,176
  • RegionNormandieHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €568

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 Calvados

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 Calvados, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

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

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