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Nouvelle-Aquitaine · 426,445 residents · Chair: Germinal Peiro

Dordogne

€621.8 million spent in 2025.

€1,458 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,377

What Dordogne spends, by policy

  • Health and social care58%€361.4M
  • Loans: repayments and interest8%€49.6M
  • Roads and transport8%€48.3M
  • Town planning and housing7%€43.4M
  • Administration and shared services5%€33.8M
  • Middle schools and education5%€28.4M
  • Fire, rescue and safety4%€21.8M
  • Culture, sport and youth3%€16.9M
The 3 other items (3%)
  • Economy and trade2%€11.3M
  • Environment1%€3.4M
  • Passed on to other bodies1%€3.4M

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €621.8M, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people47%€295.2M

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

  • Staff19%€117.4M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors9%€57M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions8%€51M
  • Banks and lenders8%€49.6M
  • Compulsory contributions5%€28M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Joint bodies and syndicates3%€16.7M
  • Other1%€6.9M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Dordogne (DGFiP).

127 contracts signed in 2025 · €34.4M before tax

Why this total differs from the €57M 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

€29.4M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €69 per resident. Départements of the same size: €122.

  • Les prestations du présent accord-cadre ont pour objet les travaux de réfection de chaussée en traverse…2024 · Nge Routes€4M
  • Aménagement de la route de Marival sur les communes de Coulounieix-Chamiers et de Marsac sur l’Isle…2025 · Colas France (Établissement de la Dordogne)€2M
  • Réalisation d’inspections ponctuelles de blocs rocheux et si nécessaire la réalisation de purges manuelles2024 · Ozone Travaux Speciaux€2M
  • Pose, dépose et maintenance de signalisation permanente et temporaire aux abords des routes départementales…2025 · Signalisation 24€1.6M
  • RD 3E5-Commune de Sourzac2025 · Bouygues Travaux Publics Regions France€1.4M

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

On top of that, €41.2M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €602.4M · borrowing: €32.9M · spending: €621.8M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)59%€377.7M
  • State and other contributions25%€161.1M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds7%€45.7M
  • Users and rents1%€4.7M
  • Other receipts2%€13.2M
  • Borrowing5%€32.9M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€1,051 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €526

9.7 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 Dordogne

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

  • DépartementDordogneMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,458
  • 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 Dordogne

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

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

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