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Lac de Vassivière, in Creuse
Photo (Lac de Vassivière): Babsy, CC BY-SA 3.0

Nouvelle-Aquitaine · 118,874 residents · Chair: Valérie Simonet

Creuse

€207.1 million spent in 2025.

€1,742 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,609

What Creuse spends, by policy

  • Health and social care55%€113.6M
  • Roads and transport13%€26.5M
  • Administration and shared services8%€17M
  • Middle schools and education7%€14M
  • Loans: repayments and interest6%€12.2M
  • Culture, sport and youth4%€7.9M
  • Fire, rescue and safety4%€7.8M
The 4 other items (4%)
  • Economy and trade2%€4.4M
  • Environment1%€2.9M
  • Town planning and housing< 1%€520k
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€162k

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €207.1M, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people41%€85.2M

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

  • Staff23%€48.5M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors15%€32.1M

    See the names ↓

  • Banks and lenders6%€12.2M
  • Grants and contributions6%€11.4M
  • Compulsory contributions5%€9.9M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Joint bodies and syndicates2%€5.1M
  • Other1%€2.7M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Creuse (DGFiP).

52 contracts signed in 2025 · €23.4M before tax

Why this total differs from the €32.1M 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

€15.9M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €134 per resident. Départements of the same size: €180.

  • RD64 renforcement chaussée CNES budeliere viersat2025 · Transports et Travaux Publics Marchois€756k
  • Remplacement des couvertures en tuiles de terre cuite et de la zinguerie du bâtiment principal collège…2025 · Union Technique du Bâtiment€512k
  • Pelles supérieures a 10 t2024 · BLS 23€320k
  • Travaux de curage de fosses2025 · 2 companies€260k
  • Reconstitution du remblai routier au lieu-dit « Marchives » sur le territoire de la commune de Pionnat2023€168k

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

On top of that, €5.8M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €198.1M · borrowing: €10M · spending: €207.1M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)53%€109.7M
  • State and other contributions36%€75.6M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds3%€6.3M
  • Users and rents1%€2.2M
  • Other receipts2%€4.4M
  • Borrowing5%€10M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€723 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €608

4.8 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 17 départements of 80,000 to 248,000 residents.

The levels above Creuse

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

  • DépartementCreuseMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,742
  • RegionNouvelle-AquitaineHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €509

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 Creuse

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

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

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