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Brest, in Brest Métropole
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Finistère · Bretagne · 217,444 residents · Chair: Stéphane Roudaut

Brest Métropole

€323.9 million spent in 2025.

€1,490 per resident · Metropolitan authorities: €1,165

What Brest Métropole spends, by policy

  • Administration and shared services40%€130.9M

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

  • Town planning and housing13%€42M
  • Economy and trade12%€38.3M
  • Culture, sport and youth9%€30.8M
  • Streets and transport9%€29.8M
  • Loans: repayments and interest5%€16.6M
  • Waste, water and environment5%€14.7M
  • Public safety4%€11.7M
The 4 other items (3%)
  • Education1%€2M
  • Health and social care< 1%€1.4M
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€55k
  • Not assigned to a policy2%€5.8M

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €323.9M, by recipient.

  • Staff48%€155.6M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors24%€76.8M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions15%€50M
  • Banks and lenders5%€16.6M
  • Compulsory contributions4%€11.7M
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€335k
  • Joint bodies and syndicates< 1%€105k
  • Other4%€12.8M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Brest Métropole (DGFiP).

192 contracts signed in 2025 · €85.6M before tax

Why this total differs from the €76.8M 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

€40.8M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €188 per resident. Metropolitan authorities: €307.

  • Travaux dans divers bâtiments2025 · 8 companies€6M
  • Travaux neufs et de maintenance de l’éclairage public sur le territoire de Brest métropole2025 · Lucitea Ouest (Citeos Quimper)€2.8M
  • Travaux relatifs à l’aménagement de l’Avenue de l’École Navale à Brest2024 · Eurovia Bretagne€1.3M
  • Travaux relatifs à l’aménagement de la rue de Pen Ar Menez à Brest2024 · Eurovia Bretagne€474k
  • Travaux relatifs à l’aménagement de la plateforme de broyage des végétaux situé au lieu-dit du Spernot2024 · Eurovia Bretagne€279k

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

On top of that, €17.7M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €313.3M · borrowing: €4M · spending: €323.9M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)44%€138.2M
  • Users and rents35%€112.6M
  • State and other contributions11%€35.3M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds7%€21M
  • Other receipts2%€6.3M
  • Borrowing1%€4M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€2,131 of debt per resident

Metropolitan authorities: €1,853

7.9 years of savings to repay it

€324 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 Brest Métropole

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

  • IntercommunalityBrest MétropoleWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €1,490
  • DépartementFinistèreMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,056
  • RegionBretagneHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €493

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

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

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