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Manche · Normandie · 49,869 residents · Chair: Aurélie Gigan

Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage

€39.1 million spent in 2025.

€784 per resident · Town groupings of the same size: €501

What Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage spends, by policy

  • Culture, sport and youth24%€9.3M
  • Administration and shared services18%€7M

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

  • Education16%€6.2M
  • Health and social care13%€5.2M
  • Public safety5%€1.9M
  • Waste, water and environment5%€1.9M
  • Streets and transport3%€1.2M
  • Economy and trade3%€1.1M
  • Not assigned to a policy9%€3.4M
The 3 other items (5%)
  • Loans: repayments and interest2%€964k
  • Town planning and housing2%€799k
  • Passed on to other bodies1%€222k

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €39.1M, by recipient.

  • Staff43%€16.9M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors33%€13M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions11%€4.4M
  • Compulsory contributions6%€2.2M
  • Banks and lenders2%€964k
  • Joint bodies and syndicates1%€222k
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€1k
  • Other3%€1.3M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage (DGFiP).

65 contracts signed in 2025 · €30.4M before tax

Why this total differs from the €13M 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

€5.5M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €110 per resident. Town groupings of the same size: €90.

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, €1.7M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €37.9M · spending: €39.1M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)59%€22.9M
  • Users and rents17%€6.6M
  • State and other contributions16%€6.1M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds5%€1.8M
  • Other receipts1%€505k
  • Drawn from reserves3%€1.2M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€203 of debt per resident

Town groupings of the same size: €322

1.5 year of savings to repay it

€323 of local taxes per resident

Town groupings of the same size: €40

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Town groupings of the same size”: median of the 290 town groupings of 25,000 to 50,000 residents.

The levels above Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté de communes Coutances Mer et BocageWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €784
  • DépartementMancheMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,328
  • RegionNormandieHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €568

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 de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage

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 de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage · Sources and method

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