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Grenoble, in Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole
Photo (Grenoble): Brücke-Osteuropa, Public domain

Isère · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · 455,436 residents · Chair: Guillaume Lissy

Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole

€429 million spent in 2025.

€942 per resident · Metropolitan authorities: €1,165

What Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole spends, by policy

  • Streets and transport25%€105.1M
  • Loans: repayments and interest20%€86M
  • Administration and shared services16%€68.9M

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

  • Town planning and housing13%€56.7M
  • Economy and trade9%€40.7M
  • Waste, water and environment7%€31.3M
  • Public safety4%€19.2M
  • Culture, sport and youth4%€17M
The 3 other items (1%)
  • Education1%€3.6M
  • Health and social care< 1%€214k
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€101k

Source: 2025 accounts of Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €429M, by recipient.

  • Companies and contractors36%€155M

    See the names ↓

  • Banks and lenders20%€86M
  • Staff18%€76.5M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Grants and contributions14%€61.3M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates6%€25.7M
  • Compulsory contributions4%€17.7M
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€58k
  • Other2%€6.7M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole (DGFiP).

44 contracts signed in 2025 · €29.2M before tax

Why this total differs from the €155M 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

€110.4M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €242 per resident. Metropolitan authorities: €307.

  • Siège Metropolitain Grenoble2024 · 6 companies€15.6M
  • Travaux sur les réseaux d’eau potable et d’assainissement des communes de Grenoble-Alpes Métropole regroupées…2024€12M
  • Travaux de rénovation des chaussées métropolitaines2024 · Colas France (Établissement de Grenoble)€7M
  • Travaux pour le réaménagement et l’insertion d’une piste cyclable bidirectionnelle sur l’avenue Rhin…2024 · 3 companies€6.7M
  • Travaux de plantation d’arbres d’alignement et de végétalisation2025 · Idverde€3.3M

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

On top of that, €33.3M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €382.6M · borrowing: €76M · spending: €429M.

Breakdown of resources

  • State and other contributions29%€135M
  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)27%€124.2M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds15%€70.7M
  • Users and rents7%€33.5M
  • Other receipts4%€19.2M
  • Borrowing17%€76M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€1,895 of debt per resident

Metropolitan authorities: €1,853

5.6 years of savings to repay it

€27 of local taxes per resident

Metropolitan authorities: €103

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Metropolitan authorities”: median of the 20 metropolitan authorities.

The levels above Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole

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

  • IntercommunalityGrenoble-Alpes-MétropoleWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €942
  • DépartementIsèreMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,217
  • RegionAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €550

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 Grenoble-Alpes-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.

Do you work for Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole · Sources and method

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