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Gorges du Tarn, in Lozère
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Occitanie · 80,049 residents · Chair: Laurent Suau

Lozère

€167.8 million spent in 2025.

€2,096 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,609

What Lozère spends, by policy

  • Health and social care43%€72.3M
  • Roads and transport20%€32.9M
  • Administration and shared services8%€13M
  • Middle schools and education6%€10.6M
  • Culture, sport and youth5%€8.9M
  • Economy and trade5%€7.6M
  • Loans: repayments and interest4%€7.5M
  • Fire, rescue and safety4%€5.9M
The 4 other items (5%)
  • Environment2%€3M
  • Town planning and housing2%€2.9M
  • Passed on to other bodies2%€3.2M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€133k

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €167.8M, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people31%€52.6M

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

  • Staff21%€34.5M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors20%€33.7M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions12%€20.6M
  • Compulsory contributions6%€9.9M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Banks and lenders4%€7.5M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates4%€6.3M
  • Other2%€2.8M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Lozère (DGFiP).

38 contracts signed in 2025 · €22M before tax

Why this total differs from the €33.7M 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

€22M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €275 per resident. Départements of the same size: €180.

  • Travaux courants de chaussées sur le réseau routier départemental2023 · Ipf 69 (Centre Travaux STPL)€2.4M
  • Travaux courants de réparations, confortements et réalisations d’ouvrages sur le réseau routier départemental2024 · SARL Entreprise Chapelle€2M
  • Aménagement de la RD984 à partir de la Croix de Bourel2024 · Galta€731k
  • Réparation et confortement du pont des Busses2025 · Galta€377k
  • Travaux de mise en sécurité et protection contre les chutes de blocs du réseau routier départemental de la…2023 · VTS€367k

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

On top of that, €13.8M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €155.6M · borrowing: €15M · spending: €167.8M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)49%€84.3M
  • State and other contributions36%€61.4M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds4%€7.2M
  • Users and rents1%€1.5M
  • Other receipts1%€1.2M
  • Borrowing9%€15M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€608 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €608

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

The levels above Lozère

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

  • DépartementLozèreMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €2,096
  • RegionOccitanieHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €529

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 Lozère

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

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

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