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Pau, in Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées
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Pyrénées-Atlantiques · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · 170,404 residents · Chair: Jérôme Marbot

Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées

€162.5 million spent in 2025.

€953 per resident · Urban-area groupings of the same size: €702

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

  • Administration and shared services23%€37.9M

    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%€19.7M
  • Town planning and housing10%€15.6M
  • Loans: repayments and interest8%€13.7M
  • Streets and transport4%€6.7M
  • Economy and trade3%€4.9M
  • Passed on to other bodies5%€8.8M
The 3 other items (5%)
  • Public safety2%€4M
  • Education1%€1.8M
  • Not assigned to a policy1%€2.2M

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

Where the money goes

The €162.5M spent in 2025, by who receives it.

  • The intercommunality’s staff36%€58.9M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies27%€43.4M

    Purchases, services and works. See the names ↓

  • Associations and other bodies14%€22.6M

    Grants and contributions.

  • Banks8%€13.7M

    Loan interest and repayments.

  • Syndicates and groupings of local authorities5%€8.8M

    Compulsory or voluntary contributions.

  • Public bodies5%€7.6M

    Compulsory contributions, mostly to the fire and rescue service.

  • Residents< 1%€2k

    Aid, study grants and emergency help.

  • Other5%€7.6M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

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

Contracts state a maximum amount for their whole term, often several years. That amount differs from what was paid. Purchases, services and works paid to companies by the intercommunality in 2025: €43.4M (its accounts).

100 contracts signed in 2025 · €29.2M before tax

Why this total differs from the €43.4M of purchases, services and works 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.

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, €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: €162.5M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)51%€83.2M
  • State and other contributions21%€34.6M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…8%€12.7M
  • Users and rents7%€11.1M
  • Other receipts3%€5.5M
  • Borrowing9%€15M
  • Drawn from reserves< 1%€354k

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
    €953 per resident
  • DépartementPyrénées-AtlantiquesMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,203 per resident
  • RegionNouvelle-AquitaineHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €519 per resident

Each amount is what the body spends per resident, from its accounts (DGFiP). Do not add them up: part of the money passes from one body to 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.

Elected officials and staff of Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

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

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