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Pointe du Raz, in Finistère
Photo (Pointe du Raz): Stephan Sprinz, CC BY 4.0

Bretagne · 952,351 residents · Chair: Maël De Calan

Finistère

€1 billion spent in 2025.

€1,056 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,203

What Finistère spends, by policy

  • Health and social care63%€636.5M
  • Middle schools and education8%€79.9M
  • Roads and transport7%€72.8M
  • Administration and shared services5%€53.5M
  • Loans: repayments and interest4%€39.5M
  • Culture, sport and youth4%€38.8M
  • Fire, rescue and safety4%€35.6M
The 5 other items (5%)
  • Town planning and housing2%€16.3M
  • Environment1%€13.9M
  • Economy and trade1%€10.6M
  • Passed on to other bodies1%€7.1M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€880k

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €1.01B, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people48%€480.6M

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

  • Staff20%€197.6M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Grants and contributions11%€105.7M
  • Companies and contractors10%€99.1M

    See the names ↓

  • Compulsory contributions5%€50M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Banks and lenders4%€39.5M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates2%€23.3M
  • Other1%€9.5M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Finistère (DGFiP).

290 contracts signed in 2025 · €96.4M before tax

Why this total differs from the €99.1M 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

€59M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €62 per resident. Départements of the same size: €93.

  • Travaux de marquage routier et fourniture de produits de marquage routier2024 · Signature€5.7M
  • Nord-Ouest2023 · Spie Batignolles Grand Ouest€4M
  • Réaménagement de la RD 770 entre « Kerneyen » à Ploudaniel et « St Eloi » à Plouédern2023€3.6M
  • Nord-Est2023 · Spie Batignolles Grand Ouest€3M
  • Réhabilitation de l’ancienne voie ferrée Quimper Pluguffan en voie verte Terrassements / voirie / réseaux2025€2.7M

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

On top of that, €65.3M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €983.1M · borrowing: €38.5M · spending: €1.01B.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)64%€656.4M
  • State and other contributions27%€276.7M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds2%€24.3M
  • Users and rents1%€8.4M
  • Other receipts2%€17.2M
  • Borrowing4%€38.5M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€253 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €568

2.1 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 29 départements of 777,000 to 2.6 million residents.

The levels above Finistère

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

  • DépartementFinistèreMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,056
  • RegionBretagneHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €493

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 Finistère

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

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

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