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Dunkerque, in Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque
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Nord · Hauts-de-France · 195,297 residents

Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque

€371.4 million spent in 2025.

€1,902 per resident · Urban communities: €926

What Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque spends, by policy

  • Administration and shared services30%€112.3M

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

  • Town planning and housing13%€48M
  • Culture, sport and youth12%€46M
  • Streets and transport12%€44.8M
  • Loans: repayments and interest9%€32.2M
  • Economy and trade6%€21.7M
  • Waste, water and environment5%€18.2M
  • Public safety4%€15.3M
  • Not assigned to a policy7%€25.9M
The 2 other items (2%)
  • Health and social care1%€4.4M
  • Education1%€2.5M

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €371.4M, by recipient.

  • Companies and contractors30%€111.2M

    See the names ↓

  • Staff27%€100.3M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Grants and contributions14%€53.8M
  • Banks and lenders9%€32.2M
  • Compulsory contributions4%€14.9M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates1%€2.2M
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€3k
  • Other15%€56.7M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque (DGFiP).

342 contracts signed in 2025 · €411M before tax

Why this total differs from the €111.2M 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

€74.2M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €380 per resident. Urban communities: €234.

  • Travaux de dépollution sur différents sites communautaires2023 · Colas Environnement€8M
  • Travaux effacement réseaux électriques basse tension et téléphoniques sur territoire CUD2025 · Établissements Jules Demeyere€6M
  • Travaux de transfert du navire et travaux en Cale voilier duchesse anne2024 · Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque€5.6M
  • Travaux d’aménagement et de réfection de chemins verts sur le territoire communautaire2025 · Idverde€4M
  • Travaux neufs amélioration maintenance de la signalisation lumineuse sur le territoire communautaire2025 · Aximum€3M

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

On top of that, €25.4M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €280.4M · borrowing: €62.9M · spending: €371.4M.

Breakdown of resources

  • State and other contributions41%€139.7M
  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)28%€97.7M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds8%€26.9M
  • Users and rents2%€6.2M
  • Other receipts3%€9.9M
  • Borrowing18%€62.9M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€3,156 of debt per resident

Urban communities: €1,386

28.4 years of savings to repay it

€284 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 de Dunkerque

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté urbaine de DunkerqueWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €1,902
  • 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 urbaine de Dunkerque

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 urbaine de Dunkerque, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque · Sources and method

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