Hérault · Occitanie · 131,622 residents · Chair: Loïc Linares

Communauté d'agglomération Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

€104.3 million spent in 2025.

€792 per resident · Urban-area groupings of the same size: €687

What Communauté d'agglomération Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée spends, by policy

Streets and transport26%€27.6M
Culture, sport and youth21%€22.4M
Administration and shared services19%€19.6M
Bodies do not all file the same costs here: some put all their staff under it.
Town planning and housing10%€10.1M
Loans: repayments and interest7%€7.8M
Waste, water and environment7%€7M
Economy and trade5%€5.4M
Education3%€2.6M

The 2 other items (2%)

Health and social care1%€1.1M
Public safety1%€769k

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €104.3M, by recipient.

Companies and contractors43%€45.3M
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Staff28%€29M
Pay and contributions.
Grants and contributions20%€20.7M
Banks and lenders7%€7.8M
Benefits paid to people< 1%€3k
Other2%€1.6M
Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée (DGFiP).

115 contracts signed in 2025 · €41.4M before tax

Why this total differs from the €45.3M 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

€31.3M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €238 per resident. Urban-area groupings of the same size: €114.

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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, €8.4M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €89.7M · borrowing: €16M · spending: €104.3M.

Breakdown of resources

Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)58%€60.9M
State and other contributions13%€14.2M
Grants for works and VAT refunds8%€8.9M
Users and rents4%€4M
Other receipts2%€1.7M
Borrowing15%€16M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€1,136 of debt per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €781

4.1 years of savings to repay it

€223 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 Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

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

IntercommunalityCommunauté d'agglomération Sète Agglopôle MéditerranéeWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
€792
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 Sète Agglopôle 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 Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée · Sources and method

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