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Charente · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · 70,675 residents · Chair: Jérôme Sourisseau

Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac

€54.4 million spent in 2025.

€770 per resident · Urban-area groupings of the same size: €649

What Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac spends, by policy

  • Culture, sport and youth32%€17.4M
  • Administration and shared services19%€10.5M

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

  • Health and social care10%€5.6M
  • Economy and trade8%€4.5M
  • Town planning and housing8%€4.3M
  • Public safety6%€3.4M
  • Loans: repayments and interest6%€3.3M
  • Waste, water and environment2%€1.3M
The 4 other items (8%)
  • Streets and transport2%€1M
  • Education1%€296k
  • Passed on to other bodies2%€926k
  • Not assigned to a policy3%€1.9M

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €54.4M, by recipient.

  • Staff36%€19.7M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors36%€19.6M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions11%€5.9M
  • Compulsory contributions6%€3.4M
  • Banks and lenders6%€3.3M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates2%€1M
  • Other3%€1.5M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac (DGFiP).

34 contracts signed in 2025 · €9.1M before tax

Why this total differs from the €19.6M 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

€11.3M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €160 per resident. Urban-area groupings 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, €2.7M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €49.2M · borrowing: €6.5M · spending: €54.4M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)39%€22M
  • State and other contributions27%€15.2M
  • Users and rents11%€6.2M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds10%€5.7M
  • Other receipts< 1%€192k
  • Borrowing12%€6.5M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€858 of debt per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €559

3.3 years of savings to repay it

€13 of local taxes per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €51

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 117 urban-area groupings of 50,000 to 99,000 residents.

The levels above Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté d'agglomération du Grand CognacWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €770
  • DépartementCharenteMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,408
  • 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 Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac

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 Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac · Sources and method

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