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Guînes, in Communauté de communes Pays d'Opale
Photo (Guînes): James Cridland, CC BY 2.0

Pas-de-Calais · Hauts-de-France · 25,544 residents · Chair: Ludovic Loquet

Communauté de communes Pays d'Opale

€8.3 million spent in 2025.

€323 per resident · Town groupings of the same size: €517

What Communauté de communes Pays d'Opale spends, by policy

  • Health and social care25%€2.1M
  • Town planning and housing18%€1.5M
  • Administration and shared services14%€1.2M
  • Economy and trade11%€889k
  • Culture, sport and youth9%€714k
  • Waste, water and environment8%€665k
  • Loans: repayments and interest3%€242k
  • Streets and transport3%€241k
  • Passed on to other bodies9%€741k
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€122

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes Pays d'Opale (DGFiP), by public policy.

Where the money goes

The €8.3M spent in 2025, by who receives it.

  • The intercommunality’s staff46%€3.8M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies30%€2.5M

    Purchases, services and works. See the names ↓

  • Syndicates and groupings of local authorities9%€741k

    Compulsory or voluntary contributions.

  • Associations and other bodies7%€567k

    Grants and contributions.

  • Banks3%€242k

    Loan interest and repayments.

  • Other5%€416k

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes Pays d'Opale (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: €2.5M (its accounts).

1 contracts signed in 2024 · €113k before tax · no contract published since 2024

Why this total differs from the €2.5M 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

€1.5M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €57 per resident. Town groupings of the same size: €90.

  • Waste, water and environment€512k
  • Town planning and housing€462k
  • Health and social care€242k
  • Economy and trade€180k
  • Streets and transport€35k
  • Other policies€30k

On top of that, €197k paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes Pays d'Opale (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €9.2M · spending: €8.3M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)33%€3M
  • State and other contributions31%€2.9M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…24%€2.2M
  • Users and rents4%€412k
  • Other receipts8%€692k

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€94 of debt per resident

Town groupings of the same size: €322

2.1 years of savings to repay it

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 Pays d'Opale

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté de communes Pays d'OpaleWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €323 per resident
  • DépartementPas-de-CalaisMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,344 per resident
  • RegionHauts-de-FranceHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €628 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 de communes Pays d'Opale

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 de communes Pays d'Opale: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté de communes Pays d'Opale · Sources and method

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