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Saint-Denis, in Seine-Saint-Denis
Photo (Saint-Denis): Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0

Île-de-France · 1,688,205 residents · Chair: Stéphane Troussel

Seine-Saint-Denis

€2 billion spent in 2025.

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

What Seine-Saint-Denis spends, by policy

  • Health and social care54%€1.10B
  • Middle schools and education12%€236.3M
  • Roads and transport9%€175.7M
  • Loans: repayments and interest8%€168.1M
  • Administration and shared services8%€161.8M
  • Culture, sport and youth5%€91.5M
  • Fire, rescue and safety3%€54.4M
The 5 other items (2%)
  • Town planning and housing2%€31.4M
  • Economy and trade< 1%€2.9M
  • Environment< 1%€1.9M
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€7.5M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€722k

Source: 2025 accounts of Seine-Saint-Denis (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €2.03B, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people35%€708.8M

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

  • Staff21%€431.3M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors20%€414.2M

    See the names ↓

  • Banks and lenders8%€168.1M
  • Grants and contributions7%€152.1M
  • Compulsory contributions6%€130.3M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Joint bodies and syndicates1%€13.5M
  • Other1%€13M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Seine-Saint-Denis (DGFiP).

96 contracts signed in 2025 · €157.1M before tax

Why this total differs from the €414.2M 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

€231.2M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €137 per resident. Départements of the same size: €93.

  • Travaux de revêtement bitumineux sur chaussée et dépendances sur les rues départementales2024 · Viabilite Terrassement Materiaux Travaux Publics€38M
  • Marché global de performance portant sur la rénovation et l’extension du collège albert camus a…2024 · Spie Batignolles Ile-de-France€19.2M
  • Travaux d’aménagements des espaces publics de la ligne de tramway T1 voirie et réseaux divers 6…2025 · Eurovia Ile de France€13.3M
  • Travaux d’entretien et de réparation des ouvrages d’art départementaux2023€13M
  • Travaux d’aménagement de l’avenue Jean Jaurès à Aubervilliers et Pantin entre les rues Condorcet…2023€10.9M

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

On top of that, €56.6M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Seine-Saint-Denis (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €1.84B · borrowing: €187M · spending: €2.03B.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)68%€1.38B
  • State and other contributions12%€246.3M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds6%€125.5M
  • Users and rents1%€17.3M
  • Other receipts4%€77.8M
  • Borrowing9%€187M
  • Drawn from reserves< 1%€2M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€1,092 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €568

15 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 Seine-Saint-Denis

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

  • DépartementSeine-Saint-DenisMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,203
  • RegionÎle-de-FranceHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €459

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 Seine-Saint-Denis

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.

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Page edited by Qipu, independent of Seine-Saint-Denis · Sources and method

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