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Grand Est · 1,068,619 residents · Chair: Patrick Weiten

Moselle

€1 billion spent in 2025.

€967 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,203

What Moselle spends, by policy

  • Health and social care61%€634.5M
  • Middle schools and education8%€82.6M
  • Roads and transport7%€71.3M
  • Loans: repayments and interest6%€57.9M
  • Administration and shared services5%€55.1M
  • Fire, rescue and safety5%€54.7M
  • Culture, sport and youth3%€29.9M
The 5 other items (5%)
  • Town planning and housing2%€25.3M
  • Economy and trade1%€7.3M
  • Environment< 1%€2.2M
  • Passed on to other bodies1%€8.2M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€4.4M

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €1.03B, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people51%€523.1M

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

  • Staff15%€152.3M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors12%€127M

    See the names ↓

  • Compulsory contributions6%€64.5M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Grants and contributions6%€59.2M
  • Banks and lenders6%€57.9M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates3%€33.4M
  • Other2%€16M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Moselle (DGFiP).

118 contracts signed in 2025 · €55.2M before tax

Why this total differs from the €127M 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

€71.2M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €67 per resident. Départements of the same size: €93.

  • SDER · Réalisation d’enrobés bitumineux sur les routes départementales de la Moselle · UTT de…2023 · Colas France (Établissement de Moselle Est)€3.7M
  • Travaux sur les réseaux informatiques des bâtiments gérés par le Département de la Moselle2025 · Telmo€3M
  • SDER · Travaux de signalisation horizontale2025 · Groupe Helios€2.8M
  • Réalisation d’enrobés bitumineux sur les Routes Départementales de la Moselle2025 · Colas France (Établissement Moselle Est)€2.8M
  • Travaux dans divers collèges, bâtiments et centres médico-sociaux départementaux2024 · Lagarde et Meregnani SAS€1.2M

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

On top of that, €34.6M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €982.8M · borrowing: €65.4M · spending: €1.03B.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)67%€701.1M
  • State and other contributions23%€243.1M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds2%€25.1M
  • Users and rents< 1%€2.9M
  • Other receipts1%€10.7M
  • Borrowing6%€65.4M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€525 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €568

7.4 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 29 départements of 777,000 to 2.6 million residents.

The levels above Moselle

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

  • DépartementMoselleMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €967
  • 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 Moselle

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

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

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