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Arras, in Communauté urbaine d'Arras
Photo (Arras): Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 4.0

Pas-de-Calais · Hauts-de-France · 111,820 residents · Chair: Frédéric Leturque

Communauté urbaine d'Arras

€120.7 million spent in 2025.

€1,079 per resident · Urban communities: €933

What Communauté urbaine d'Arras spends, by policy

  • Administration and shared services20%€24.3M

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

  • Streets and transport19%€22.4M
  • Town planning and housing18%€21.5M
  • Culture, sport and youth8%€9.8M
  • Waste, water and environment7%€8.1M
  • Loans: repayments and interest6%€7.2M
  • Public safety5%€5.9M
  • Economy and trade3%€3.9M
  • Not assigned to a policy11%€12.8M
The 2 other items (4%)
  • Education2%€2.6M
  • Health and social care2%€2.2M

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté urbaine d'Arras (DGFiP), by public policy.

Where the money goes

The €120.7M spent in 2025, by who receives it.

  • Companies49%€59.2M

    Purchases, services and works. See the names ↓

  • The intercommunality’s staff18%€21.3M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Associations and other bodies11%€13.8M

    Grants and contributions.

  • Banks6%€7.2M

    Loan interest and repayments.

  • Public bodies3%€3.7M

    Compulsory contributions, mostly to the fire and rescue service.

  • Residents< 1%€41k

    Aid, study grants and emergency help.

  • Other13%€15.4M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté urbaine d'Arras (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: €59.2M (its accounts).

94 contracts signed in 2025 · €60.3M before tax

What the intercommunality paid in 2025 for these kinds of purchase, from its accounts

  • Maintenance and repairsall suppliers together · contract in the list: Eiffage Énergie Systemes - Infra Nordpaid €3.5M

The accounts say how much was paid for each kind of purchase, not to which company. A purchase paid by another public body (joint order, shared service) is not in them.

Why this total differs from the €59.2M 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

€42.9M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €383 per resident. Urban communities: €233.

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, €10.8M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté urbaine d'Arras (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €97.5M · borrowing: €20M · spending: €120.7M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)40%€48.5M
  • State and other contributions21%€24.9M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…17%€20.2M
  • Users and rents2%€2.8M
  • Other receipts1%€1.1M
  • Borrowing17%€20M
  • Drawn from reserves3%€3.2M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€947 of debt per resident

Urban communities: €1,386

3.5 years of savings to repay it

€79 of local taxes per resident

Urban communities: €120

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Urban communities”: median of the 14 urban communities.

The levels above Communauté urbaine d'Arras

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté urbaine d'ArrasWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €1,079 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 urbaine d'Arras

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 urbaine d'Arras: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté urbaine d'Arras · Sources and method

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