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Bergues, in Communauté de communes des Hauts de Flandre
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Nord · Hauts-de-France · 54,603 residents

Communauté de communes des Hauts de Flandre

€37.6 million spent in 2025.

€688 per resident · Town groupings of the same size: €469

What Communauté de communes des Hauts de Flandre spends, by policy

  • Streets and transport29%€10.8M
  • Waste, water and environment22%€8.3M
  • Administration and shared services18%€6.6M

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

  • Health and social care10%€3.6M
  • Culture, sport and youth7%€2.6M
  • Town planning and housing4%€1.5M
  • Loans: repayments and interest4%€1.4M
  • Economy and trade4%€1.4M
  • Education< 1%€45k
The 2 other items (4%)
  • Public safety< 1%€5k
  • Passed on to other bodies4%€1.3M

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes des Hauts de Flandre (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €37.6M, by recipient.

  • Companies and contractors43%€16.3M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions25%€9.2M
  • Staff23%€8.7M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Banks and lenders4%€1.4M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates4%€1.3M
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€3k
  • Other2%€579k

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes des Hauts de Flandre (DGFiP).

62 contracts signed in 2025 · €5.9M before tax

Why this total differs from the €16.3M 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

€11.1M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €203 per resident. Town groupings of the same size: €86.

  • Démolition et reconstruction du pont du Petit Millebrugghe à Bierne2025 · Spie Batignolles Nord€933k
  • Construction d’un bâtiment modulaire a usage de bureaux et salles de réunions2023 · Avenir Bâtiment Modulaire€887k
  • Pont de l’Yser à Zegerscappel2025 · Études et Travaux de Genie Civil€538k
  • Signalisation routière horizontale2025 · Miditracage€320k
  • Fontaine sèche scénique et dynamique2023–2024 · 2 companies€296k

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

On top of that, €528k paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes des Hauts de Flandre (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €34.1M · borrowing: €5M · spending: €37.6M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)53%€20.9M
  • State and other contributions20%€7.8M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds9%€3.4M
  • Users and rents5%€1.8M
  • Other receipts< 1%€167k
  • Borrowing13%€5M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€310 of debt per resident

Town groupings of the same size: €277

2.4 years of savings to repay it

€92 of local taxes per resident

Town groupings of the same size: €23

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 41 town groupings of 50,000 to 106,000 residents.

The levels above Communauté de communes des Hauts de Flandre

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté de communes des Hauts de FlandreWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €688
  • DépartementNordMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,308
  • RegionHauts-de-FranceHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €617

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 des Hauts de Flandre

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 des Hauts de Flandre, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté de communes des Hauts de Flandre · Sources and method

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