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Aix-en-Provence, in Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence
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Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur · 1,944,405 residents · Chair: Nicolas Isnard

Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence

€1.5 billion spent in 2025.

€754 per resident · Metropolitan authorities: €1,165

What Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence spends, by policy

  • Administration and shared services30%€433.2M

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

  • Streets and transport21%€305.1M
  • Loans: repayments and interest14%€210.9M
  • Town planning and housing13%€186.1M
  • Waste, water and environment8%€119.6M
  • Public safety6%€91.5M
  • Economy and trade3%€51.1M
  • Culture, sport and youth3%€48.2M
The 3 other items (1%)
  • Health and social care1%€18.8M
  • Education< 1%€2.1M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€305k

Source: 2025 accounts of Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €1.47B, by recipient.

  • Companies and contractors31%€460.8M

    See the names ↓

  • Grants and contributions27%€392.6M
  • Staff19%€280.7M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Banks and lenders14%€210.9M
  • Compulsory contributions6%€88.6M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates< 1%€260k
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€79k
  • Other2%€32.9M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence (DGFiP).

1,177 contracts signed in 2025 · €1.83B before tax

Why this total differs from the €460.8M 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

€237M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €122 per resident. Metropolitan authorities: €307.

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, €155.1M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €1.22B · borrowing: €150M · spending: €1.47B.

Breakdown of resources

  • State and other contributions38%€524.3M
  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)34%€470.8M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds10%€134M
  • Users and rents3%€41.3M
  • Other receipts4%€54.6M
  • Borrowing11%€150M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€1,542 of debt per resident

Metropolitan authorities: €1,853

7.9 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). “Metropolitan authorities”: median of the 20 metropolitan authorities.

The levels above Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence

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

  • IntercommunalityMétropole d'Aix-Marseille-ProvenceWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €754
  • RegionProvence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €530

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 Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence

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 Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence · Sources and method

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