Hérault · Occitanie · 83,500 residents · Chair: Gwendoline Chaudoir

Communauté d'agglomération Hérault-Méditerranée

€63.5 million spent in 2025.

€761 per resident · Urban-area groupings of the same size: €649

What Communauté d'agglomération Hérault-Méditerranée spends, by policy

Town planning and housing35%€22.4M
Waste, water and environment20%€12.8M
Administration and shared services14%€8.6M
Loans: repayments and interest9%€5.5M
Culture, sport and youth9%€5.5M
Economy and trade8%€4.9M
Streets and transport4%€2.3M

The 3 other items (2%)

Public safety< 1%€204k
Passed on to other bodies2%€1.2M
Not assigned to a policy< 1%€132k

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération Hérault-Méditerranée (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €63.5M, by recipient.

Staff35%€22.4M
Pay and contributions.
Companies and contractors34%€21.8M
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Grants and contributions15%€9.7M
Banks and lenders9%€5.5M
Compulsory contributions3%€1.8M
Joint bodies and syndicates2%€1.2M
Other2%€1.2M
Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération Hérault-Méditerranée (DGFiP).

37 contracts signed in 2025 · €43.2M before tax

Why this total differs from the €21.8M 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

€9.2M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €110 per resident. Urban-area groupings of the same size: €101.

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

On top of that, €7.4M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération Hérault-Méditerranée (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €57.2M · borrowing: €9.1M · spending: €63.5M.

Breakdown of resources

Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)48%€31.6M
State and other contributions16%€10.8M
Grants for works and VAT refunds13%€8.7M
Users and rents8%€5.2M
Other receipts1%€872k
Borrowing14%€9.1M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€1,112 of debt per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €559

5.4 years of savings to repay it

€174 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 Hérault-Méditerranée

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

IntercommunalityCommunauté d'agglomération Hérault-MéditerranéeWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
€761
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 Hérault-Méditerranée

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.

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Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté d'agglomération Hérault-Méditerranée · Sources and method

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