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Charleville-Mézières, in Ardenne Métropole
Photo (Charleville-Mézières): Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0

Ardennes · Grand Est · 123,142 residents · Chair: Boris Ravignon

Ardenne Métropole

€64.7 million spent in 2025.

€526 per resident · Urban-area groupings of the same size: €687

What Ardenne Métropole spends, by policy

  • Culture, sport and youth25%€16.1M
  • Administration and shared services24%€15.6M

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

  • Public safety11%€7.4M
  • Town planning and housing11%€7M
  • Loans: repayments and interest9%€5.8M
  • Economy and trade8%€5.2M
  • Health and social care8%€4.9M
  • Waste, water and environment3%€1.8M
The 3 other items (1%)
  • Education1%€531k
  • Streets and transport1%€372k
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€12k

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €64.7M, by recipient.

  • Companies and contractors34%€22.2M

    See the names ↓

  • Staff29%€18.7M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Grants and contributions14%€8.8M
  • Compulsory contributions11%€7.4M
  • Banks and lenders9%€5.8M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates1%€333k
  • Other2%€1.6M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Ardenne Métropole (DGFiP).

150 contracts signed in 2025 · €74.1M before tax

Why this total differs from the €22.2M 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

€15.4M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €125 per resident. Urban-area groupings of the same size: €114.

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, €5.5M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €58.7M · borrowing: €8M · spending: €64.7M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)42%€28.2M
  • State and other contributions23%€15.4M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds16%€10.3M
  • Users and rents5%€3.2M
  • Other receipts2%€1.4M
  • Borrowing12%€8M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€962 of debt per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €781

5.8 years of savings to repay it

€13 of local taxes per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €49

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Urban-area groupings of the same size”: median of the 94 urban-area groupings of 100,000 to 365,000 residents.

The levels above Ardenne Métropole

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

  • IntercommunalityArdenne MétropoleWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €526
  • DépartementArdennesMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,477
  • RegionGrand EstHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €662

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 Ardenne Métropole

Understanding these figures

Who does what

The intercommunality collects and treats waste, often runs water and sanitation, organises urban transport, and pays part of its revenue back to its member towns.

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

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Ardenne Métropole · Sources and method

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