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Lille, in Nord
Photo (Lille): Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0

Hauts-de-France · 2,646,988 residents · Chair: Christian Poiret

Nord

€3.5 billion spent in 2025.

€1,308 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,203

What Nord spends, by policy

  • Regional planning and housing70%€2.43B
  • Education and training7%€228M
  • Loans: repayments and interest5%€171.8M
  • General administration5%€168.8M
  • Economic action3%€116.8M
  • Security and public health3%€105.5M
  • Health and social action3%€91.9M
The 4 other items (4%)
  • Environment2%€64.7M
  • Culture, youth and sports1%€40.7M
  • Economic action (M14)< 1%€5.5M
  • Passed on to other bodies1%€34.3M

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €3.46B, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people57%€1.98B

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

  • Staff17%€600.8M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors8%€290.2M

    See the names ↓

  • Compulsory contributions5%€174.9M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Banks and lenders5%€171.8M
  • Grants and contributions5%€161.3M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates1%€50.5M
  • Other1%€28.5M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Nord (DGFiP).

579 contracts signed in 2025 · €1.32B before tax

Why this total differs from the €290.2M 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

€170M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €64 per resident. Départements of the same size: €93.

  • AR AV en vue de la réalisation des travaux de réfection des chaussées en béton bitumineux CD59…2023 · 2 companies€32.5M
  • DV DK Accords-cadres en vue de la réalisation des travaux de réfection des chaussées en béton bitumineux2023–2024 · 3 companies€22.1M
  • Section Ouest · Trémie de Raismes · Terrassement OA Assainissement Chaussée2023–2024 · 2 companies€20.9M
  • DV DO Accords-cadres en vue de la réalisation des travaux de réfection des chaussées en béton bitumineux2023 · 2 companies€17.9M
  • Travaux de mise en oeuvre d’enduits superficiels d’usure2024 · Lhotellier Travaux Publics (SNPC)€17.1M

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

On top of that, €69.2M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €3.31B · borrowing: €144.8M · spending: €3.46B.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)64%€2.23B
  • State and other contributions27%€940.5M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds2%€61.9M
  • Users and rents< 1%€6.5M
  • Other receipts2%€72.6M
  • Borrowing4%€144.8M
  • Drawn from reserves< 1%€7.8M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€485 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €568

8 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 Nord

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

  • DépartementNordMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,308
  • RegionHauts-de-FranceHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €617

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 Nord

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

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

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