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

Brest Métropole

€327.9 million spent in 2025.

€1,508 per resident · Metropolitan authorities: €1,170

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%€42.4M
  • Economy and trade12%€38.4M
  • Culture, sport and youth9%€30.8M
  • Streets and transport9%€29.8M
  • Loans: repayments and interest5%€16.6M
  • Waste, water and environment4%€14.7M
  • Public safety4%€11.7M
  • Education1%€2M
The 3 other items (3%)
  • Health and social care< 1%€1.4M
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€55k
  • Not assigned to a policy3%€9.3M

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €327.9M, by recipient.

  • Staff47%€155.6M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors23%€76.6M

    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
  • Other5%€17M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Brest Métropole (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 intercommunality in 2025: €76.6M (its accounts).

233 contracts signed in 2025 · €96.8M before tax

Why this total differs from the €76.6M 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

€40.7M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €187 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, €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: €327.9M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)42%€138.2M
  • Users and rents34%€112.6M
  • State and other contributions11%€35.3M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…6%€21M
  • Other receipts2%€6.3M
  • Borrowing1%€4M
  • Drawn from reserves3%€10.6M

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
    €1,508
  • DépartementFinistèreMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,058
  • RegionBretagneHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €498

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.

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

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

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