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Les Sables-d'Olonne, in Communauté d'agglomération Les Sables d'Olonne Agglomération
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Vendée · Pays de la Loire · 59,944 residents · Chair: Nicolas Chénéchaud

Communauté d'agglomération Les Sables d'Olonne Agglomération

€131.8 million spent in 2025.

€2,199 per resident · Urban-area groupings of the same size: €649

What Communauté d'agglomération Les Sables d'Olonne Agglomération spends, by policy

  • Culture, sport and youth22%€29.6M
  • Economy and trade18%€24.3M
  • Administration and shared services17%€23.1M

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

  • Waste, water and environment16%€21.5M
  • Streets and transport10%€13M
  • Town planning and housing6%€8.4M
  • Loans: repayments and interest5%€6.8M
  • Health and social care3%€3.3M
The 3 other items (1%)
  • Public safety1%€1.3M
  • Education< 1%€390k
  • Passed on to other bodies< 1%€9k

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération Les Sables d'Olonne Agglomération (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €131.8M, by recipient.

  • Companies and contractors60%€79.4M

    See the names ↓

  • Staff20%€26.8M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Grants and contributions13%€16.7M
  • Banks and lenders5%€6.8M
  • Compulsory contributions1%€1.1M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates< 1%€9k
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€8k
  • Other1%€990k

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération Les Sables d'Olonne Agglomération (DGFiP).

21 contracts signed in 2025 · €13.9M before tax

Why this total differs from the €79.4M 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

€61.2M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €1,020 per resident. Urban-area groupings of the same size: €101.

  • Enerplage2025 · DVB€3.4M
  • Canalisations la Billonnière2024 · Loire Vendee Infrastructures€2.5M
  • Travaux de réhabilitation du parapet du remblai sur promenades clemenceau et godet2024 · Charier TP Sud€2.4M
  • Infrastructures sportives2023 · Sportingsols€1.6M
  • Aménagements paysagers et cheminements2023 · Arbora Paysages€1.6M

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

On top of that, €7.9M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération Les Sables d'Olonne Agglomération (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €93.8M · borrowing: €36M · spending: €131.8M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)45%€58.8M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds18%€23.4M
  • State and other contributions5%€6M
  • Users and rents3%€3.9M
  • Other receipts1%€1.7M
  • Borrowing28%€36M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€2,287 of debt per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €559

8.8 years of savings to repay it

€434 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 Les Sables d'Olonne Agglomération

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté d'agglomération Les Sables d'Olonne AgglomérationWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €2,199
  • DépartementVendéeMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,102
  • RegionPays de la LoireHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €449

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 Les Sables d'Olonne Agglomération

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 Les Sables d'Olonne Agglomération, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté d'agglomération Les Sables d'Olonne Agglomération · Sources and method

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