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Perpignan, in Pyrénées-Orientales
Photo (Perpignan): Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0

Occitanie · 501,001 residents · Chair: Hermeline Malherbe

Pyrénées-Orientales

€649.1 million spent in 2025.

€1,296 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,377

What Pyrénées-Orientales spends, by policy

  • Health and social care49%€318.1M
  • Roads and transport15%€96.2M
  • Administration and shared services9%€58.5M
  • Middle schools and education7%€46.9M
  • Fire, rescue and safety7%€46.6M
  • Loans: repayments and interest3%€18.6M
  • Environment3%€17.8M
  • Culture, sport and youth3%€16.6M
The 4 other items (5%)
  • Town planning and housing2%€13M
  • Economy and trade1%€3.7M
  • Passed on to other bodies2%€12.7M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€406k

Source: 2025 accounts of Pyrénées-Orientales (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €649.1M, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people30%€194M

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

  • Staff21%€137M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors19%€124.6M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions10%€67.9M
  • Compulsory contributions7%€44.5M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Joint bodies and syndicates4%€24.2M
  • Banks and lenders3%€18.6M
  • Other6%€38.3M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Pyrénées-Orientales (DGFiP).

337 contracts signed in 2025 · €186.6M before tax

Why this total differs from the €124.6M 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

€94.8M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €189 per resident. Départements of the same size: €122.

Click a building site to see the contract

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

On top of that, €49.6M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Pyrénées-Orientales (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €584.6M · borrowing: €77.6M · spending: €649.1M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)64%€421.5M
  • State and other contributions18%€118.3M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds3%€22.8M
  • Users and rents1%€7.1M
  • Other receipts2%€14.8M
  • Borrowing12%€77.6M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€728 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €526

4.6 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 26 départements of 267,000 to 501,000 residents.

The levels above Pyrénées-Orientales

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

  • DépartementPyrénées-OrientalesMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,296
  • 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 Pyrénées-Orientales

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

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Pyrénées-Orientales · Sources and method

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