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

Vendée

€787.9 million spent in 2025.

€1,087 per resident · Départements of the same size: €1,202

What Vendée spends, by policy

  • Health and social care49%€389.9M
  • Administration and shared services15%€119.6M

    Bodies do not all file the same costs here: some put all their staff under it.

  • Roads and transport8%€63.2M
  • Middle schools and education8%€63M
  • Fire, rescue and safety6%€47.9M
  • Culture, sport and youth4%€32.6M
  • Loans: repayments and interest4%€31.6M
The 5 other items (5%)
  • Town planning and housing2%€19.3M
  • Environment2%€13.2M
  • Economy and trade1%€6.8M
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€75k
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€700k

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €787.9M, by recipient.

  • Benefits paid to people42%€329.8M

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

  • Staff17%€130.5M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors17%€130.4M

    See the names ↓

  • Compulsory contributions9%€67.6M

    Including the fire and rescue service.

  • Grants and contributions8%€63.5M
  • Banks and lenders4%€31.6M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates2%€12.8M
  • Other3%€21.6M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Vendée (DGFiP).

Contracts state a maximum amount for their whole term, often several years. That amount differs from what was paid. Purchases, services and works paid to companies by the département in 2025: €130.4M (its accounts).

246 contracts signed in 2025 · €146.7M before tax

What the département paid in 2025 for these kinds of purchase, from its accounts

  • Fuelall suppliers together · contract in the list: Totalenergies Proxi Nord Ouest (Cpo)paid €1.4M

The accounts say how much was paid for each kind of purchase, not to which company. A purchase paid by another public body (joint order, shared service) is not in them.

Why this total differs from the €130.4M of purchases, services and works 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

€73.3M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €101 per resident. Départements of the same size: €101.

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, €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: €787.9M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, property-sale duties, insurance tax)69%€544.5M
  • State and other contributions23%€179.7M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…3%€22.7M
  • Users and rents1%€4.2M
  • Other receipts2%€14.7M
  • Borrowing< 1%€98k
  • Drawn from reserves3%€22M

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 511,000 to 745,000 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
    €1,087
  • RegionPays de la LoireHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €457

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.

Elected officials and staff of Vendée: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

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

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