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La Grande-Motte, in Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de l'Or
Photo (La Grande-Motte): Olivier Cleynen, CC BY 4.0

Hérault · Occitanie · 46,100 residents · Chair: Stéphan Rossignol

Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de l'Or

€56.6 million spent in 2025.

€1,227 per resident · Urban-area groupings of the same size: €896

What Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de l'Or spends, by policy

  • Administration and shared services25%€14M

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

  • Waste, water and environment22%€12.3M
  • Culture, sport and youth15%€8.5M
  • Education12%€6.9M
  • Health and social care12%€6.7M
  • Loans: repayments and interest7%€3.8M
  • Streets and transport5%€2.7M
The 4 other items (3%)
  • Town planning and housing1%€721k
  • Economy and trade1%€696k
  • Public safety< 1%€131k
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€95k

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de l'Or (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €56.6M, by recipient.

  • Staff49%€27.5M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors31%€17.5M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions11%€6.3M
  • Banks and lenders7%€3.8M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates< 1%€95k
  • Other2%€1.4M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de l'Or (DGFiP).

10 contracts signed in 2025 · €7.5M before tax

Why this total differs from the €17.5M 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

€8.4M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €182 per resident. Urban-area groupings of the same size: €163.

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, €1.1M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de l'Or (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €55.9M · spending: €56.6M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)36%€20.2M
  • Users and rents31%€17.4M
  • State and other contributions22%€12.2M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds8%€4.4M
  • Other receipts3%€1.7M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€416 of debt per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €498

1.1 year of savings to repay it

€57 of local taxes per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €89

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 18 urban-area groupings of 28,000 to 49,000 residents.

The levels above Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de l'Or

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté d'agglomération du Pays de l'OrWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €1,228
  • DépartementHéraultMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,370
  • RegionOccitanieHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €529

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 Pays de l'Or

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 Pays de l'Or, 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 Pays de l'Or · Sources and method

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