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Bar-le-Duc, in Meuse
Photo (Bar-le-Duc): Ketounette, CC BY-SA 4.0

Grand Est · 185,753 residents · Chair: Jérôme Dumont

Meuse

€272 million spent in 2025.

€1,464 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,609

What Meuse spends, by policy

  • Health and social care58%€156.8M
  • Roads and transport12%€33.4M
  • Administration and shared services7%€18.9M
  • Loans: repayments and interest6%€17.5M
  • Middle schools and education6%€16.2M
  • Fire, rescue and safety3%€8.9M
  • Culture, sport and youth3%€8M
The 5 other items (5%)
  • Town planning and housing2%€5.4M
  • Economy and trade1%€4.1M
  • Environment1%€2.5M
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€440k
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€3k

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €272M, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people43%€116.8M

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

  • Staff20%€55.1M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors16%€42.5M

    See the names ↓

  • Banks and lenders6%€17.5M
  • Grants and contributions6%€17.1M
  • Compulsory contributions4%€11M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Joint bodies and syndicates1%€3.1M
  • Other3%€8.9M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Meuse (DGFiP).

174 contracts signed in 2025 · €93.2M before tax

Why this total differs from the €42.5M 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

€20.1M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €108 per resident. Départements of the same size: €180.

  • Travaux de retraitement en place d’anciennes chaussées sur le réseau départemental meusien2025 · Eurovia Liants Sud Ouest (Retraitement de Chaussee)€3.6M
  • Travaux d’entretien, mise en conformité et création d’installations électriques « courant fort…2024 · 2 companies€3M
  • Travaux en béton bitumineux sur le réseaux routier départemental meusien…2023 · 2 companies€2.5M
  • Currage des fosses dérasement enrochements et terrassements sur le resaux départemental meusien…2025 · Brabant SAS€2.4M
  • Travaux de reconstruction de deux ponts de décharge entre mecrin et sampigny2025 · Berthold SA€2.3M

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

On top of that, €8M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €265.2M · borrowing: €11.1M · spending: €272M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)60%€165.6M
  • State and other contributions28%€78.4M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds4%€9.9M
  • Users and rents1%€2.7M
  • Other receipts3%€8.6M
  • Borrowing4%€11.1M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€735 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €608

5.4 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 Meuse

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

  • DépartementMeuseMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,464
  • RegionGrand EstHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €662

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 Meuse

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

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

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