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Pays de la Loire · 725,062 residents · Chair: Alain Leboeuf

Vendée

€798.7 million spent in 2025.

€1,102 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,197

What Vendée spends, by policy

  • Health and social care49%€389.7M
  • Administration and shared services15%€119.6M
  • Roads and transport8%€63.3M
  • Middle schools and education8%€63M
  • Fire, rescue and safety6%€47.9M
  • Loans: repayments and interest5%€43.6M
  • Culture, sport and youth4%€32.6M
The 5 other items (5%)
  • Town planning and housing2%€19.3M
  • Environment2%€12.4M
  • Economy and trade1%€6.8M
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€75k
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€329k

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €798.7M, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people41%€329.8M

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

  • Companies and contractors16%€130.6M

    See the names ↓

  • Staff16%€130.5M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Compulsory contributions8%€67.6M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Grants and contributions8%€63.5M
  • Banks and lenders5%€43.6M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates2%€12.8M
  • Other3%€20.3M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Vendée (DGFiP).

101 contracts signed in 2025 · €137.7M before tax

Why this total differs from the €130.6M 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

€73.5M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €101 per resident. Départements of the same size: €101.

  • Travaux d’extension capacitaire du collège Pierre Garcie Ferrande2025 · Cougnaud€5.8M
  • Travaux pour la réparation des épaufrures et de protection des bétons du pont de Noirmoutier2024 · Freyssinet France€4.1M
  • Travaux de grosses réparations des infrastructures des ports départementaux de la Vendée2024 · 2 companies€4M
  • Conception-réalisation d’une passerelle piétonne entre l’Aiguillon-sur-mer et La Faute-sur-mer2023 · Sce€3.3M
  • Construction d’un collège à Talmont Saint Hilaire (2023 · Bâtiment Genie Civil Vendeen€3.2M

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

On top of that, €41.9M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €765.7M · borrowing: €98k · spending: €798.7M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)71%€544.5M
  • State and other contributions23%€179.7M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds3%€22.7M
  • Users and rents1%€4.2M
  • Other receipts2%€14.7M
  • Borrowing< 1%€98k

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€193 of debt per resident

Départements of the same size: €450

1.4 year 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 21 départements of 512,000 to 744,000 residents.

The levels above Vendée

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

  • DépartementVendéeMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,102
  • RegionPays de la LoireHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €449

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 Vendée

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

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

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