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Le Mans, in Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole
Photo (Le Mans): Selbymay, CC BY-SA 3.0

Sarthe · Pays de la Loire · 213,722 residents · Chair: Stéphane Le Foll

Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole

€345.3 million spent in 2025.

€1,615 per resident · Urban communities: €933

What Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole spends, by policy

  • Town planning and housing29%€101.7M
  • Administration and shared services25%€85M

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

  • Waste, water and environment15%€50.1M
  • Streets and transport9%€31.8M
  • Economy and trade5%€15.6M
  • Culture, sport and youth4%€12.6M
  • Public safety4%€12.4M
  • Education4%€12.3M
The 4 other items (7%)
  • Loans: repayments and interest2%€8.1M
  • Health and social care1%€3.8M
  • Passed on to other bodies1%€3.8M
  • Not assigned to a policy2%€8.1M

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €345.3M, by recipient.

  • Companies and contractors49%€168.9M

    See the names ↓

  • Staff23%€78.7M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Grants and contributions17%€58.1M
  • Compulsory contributions5%€16.7M
  • Banks and lenders2%€8.1M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates1%€4M
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€89k
  • Other3%€10.7M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole (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: €168.9M (its accounts).

132 contracts signed in 2025 · €69.3M before tax

Why this total differs from the €168.9M 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

€127.4M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €596 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, €30M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €238.2M · borrowing: €94M · spending: €345.3M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)35%€120M
  • State and other contributions13%€44.6M
  • Users and rents9%€31.1M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…9%€29.6M
  • Other receipts4%€12.9M
  • Borrowing27%€94M
  • Drawn from reserves4%€13M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€1,670 of debt per resident

Urban communities: €1,386

5.6 years of savings to repay it

€145 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 Le Mans Métropole

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté urbaine Le Mans MétropoleWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €1,615
  • DépartementSartheMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,204
  • RegionPays de la LoireHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €457

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 Le Mans Métropole

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 Le Mans Métropole: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole · Sources and method

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