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Bordeaux, in Gironde
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Nouvelle-Aquitaine · 1,701,107 residents · Chair: Jean-Luc Gleyze

Gironde

€2 billion spent in 2025.

€1,191 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,203

What Gironde spends, by policy

  • Health and social care67%€1.36B
  • Middle schools and education8%€168M
  • Fire, rescue and safety5%€107.1M
  • Administration and shared services5%€100.6M
  • Loans: repayments and interest5%€99.8M
  • Roads and transport4%€71.6M
The 6 other items (6%)
  • Town planning and housing2%€46.9M
  • Culture, sport and youth2%€34.1M
  • Environment1%€15.5M
  • Economy and trade1%€13.5M
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€6.5M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€5.4M

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €2.03B, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people54%€1.09B

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

  • Staff16%€331.1M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors9%€180M

    See the names ↓

  • Compulsory contributions7%€143.4M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Banks and lenders5%€99.8M
  • Grants and contributions4%€89.9M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates2%€36.9M
  • Other3%€56.6M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Gironde (DGFiP).

191 contracts signed in 2025 · €68.7M before tax

Why this total differs from the €180M 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

€120.4M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €71 per resident. Départements of the same size: €93.

  • Travaux de petit entretien du Patrimoine bâti du Département de la Gironde2025 · Fayat Entreprise TP€6M
  • RD 3 Communes de Naujac sur Mer et Hourtin2024 · Guintoli€4.9M
  • Petits travaux d’entretien et modernisation des chaussées et du réseau d’assainissement pluvial…2025 · Eurovia Gironde€4M
  • Toutes routes Départementales2025 · Fayat Entreprise TP€2.4M
  • Travaux de charpente bois des logements de fonction du Collège de LUSSAC<br />2025 · Entreprise Neveu€2.2M

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

On top of that, €49.8M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €1.85B · borrowing: €182.7M · spending: €2.03B.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)67%€1.36B
  • State and other contributions17%€354M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds3%€54.4M
  • Users and rents< 1%€9.4M
  • Other receipts3%€67.6M
  • Borrowing9%€182.7M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€721 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €568

106.7 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 29 départements of 777,000 to 2.6 million residents.

The levels above Gironde

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

  • DépartementGirondeMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,191
  • 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 Gironde

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

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

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