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Pyrénées-Atlantiques · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · 170,404 residents · Chair: Jérôme Marbot

Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées

€158.9 million spent in 2025.

€932 per resident · Urban-area groupings of the same size: €687

What Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées spends, by policy

  • Administration and shared services24%€37.6M

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

  • Culture, sport and youth17%€27.5M
  • Health and social care12%€19.8M
  • Waste, water and environment12%€19.2M
  • Town planning and housing9%€15.1M
  • Loans: repayments and interest9%€13.7M
  • Streets and transport4%€6.4M
  • Economy and trade3%€4.9M
  • Public safety3%€4M
  • Passed on to other bodies6%€8.8M
The 2 other items (1%)
  • Education1%€1.8M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€225k

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €158.9M, by recipient.

  • Staff37%€58.9M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors27%€43.4M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions14%€22.6M
  • Banks and lenders9%€13.7M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates6%€8.8M
  • Compulsory contributions5%€7.6M
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€2k
  • Other3%€4.1M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées (DGFiP).

80 contracts signed in 2025 · €23M before tax

Why this total differs from the €43.4M 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

€21.8M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €128 per resident. Urban-area groupings of the same size: €114.

  • Travaux du pôle d’échanges multimodal de la gare de Pau2024 · 2 companies€4.2M
  • Travaux de voirie, réseaux divers et espaces publics<br />TRAVAUX D’Aménagement De l’Avenue Peboue2023 · Colas France (Établissement Industriel de la Brionne)€1.7M
  • Travaux d’entretien et de réparation des ouvrages d’art2023€1.6M
  • Réhabilitation des réseaux d’assainissement visitables sans tranchée2023€1.5M
  • Marché de travaux dans les bâtiments2025 · Torres€1.2M

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

On top of that, €12.5M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €147.1M · borrowing: €15M · spending: €158.9M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)51%€83.2M
  • State and other contributions21%€34.6M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds8%€12.7M
  • Users and rents7%€11.1M
  • Other receipts3%€5.5M
  • Borrowing9%€15M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€1,184 of debt per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €781

6.4 years of savings to repay it

€77 of local taxes per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €49

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 94 urban-area groupings of 100,000 to 365,000 residents.

The levels above Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn PyrénéesWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €933
  • DépartementPyrénées-AtlantiquesMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,273
  • 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 Pau Béarn Pyrénées

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 Pau Béarn Pyrénées, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées · Sources and method

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