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Gironde · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · 854,949 residents · Chair: Thomas Cazenave

Bordeaux Métropole

€1.4 billion spent in 2025.

€1,665 per resident · Metropolitan authorities: €1,165

What Bordeaux Métropole spends, by policy

  • Streets and transport25%€354.7M
  • Administration and shared services20%€291.6M

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

  • Waste, water and environment14%€192.9M
  • Town planning and housing13%€186.6M
  • Loans: repayments and interest12%€174M
  • Public safety5%€75.5M
  • Education4%€55M
  • Economy and trade3%€48.8M
The 4 other items (3%)
  • Culture, sport and youth2%€33.6M
  • Health and social care< 1%€3.2M
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€3.3M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€4.6M

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €1.42B, by recipient.

  • Companies and contractors41%€587.3M

    See the names ↓

  • Staff23%€330M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Grants and contributions15%€209.2M
  • Banks and lenders12%€174M
  • Compulsory contributions5%€77.1M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates< 1%€5.9M
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€631k
  • Other3%€39.7M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Bordeaux Métropole (DGFiP).

209 contracts signed in 2025 · €361.4M before tax

Why this total differs from the €587.3M 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

€415.1M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €486 per resident. Metropolitan authorities: €307.

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, €126.9M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €1.02B · borrowing: €285M · spending: €1.42B.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)40%€521.3M
  • State and other contributions16%€213.8M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds12%€159.7M
  • Users and rents7%€92.2M
  • Other receipts2%€28.7M
  • Borrowing22%€285M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€2,420 of debt per resident

Metropolitan authorities: €1,853

10.4 years of savings to repay it

€330 of local taxes per resident

Metropolitan authorities: €103

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Metropolitan authorities”: median of the 20 metropolitan authorities.

The levels above Bordeaux Métropole

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

  • IntercommunalityBordeaux MétropoleWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €1,665
  • DépartementGirondeMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,191
  • RegionNouvelle-AquitaineHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €509

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

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

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