Hérault · Occitanie · 523,109 residents · Chair: Michaël Delafosse

Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole

€1.2 billion spent in 2025.

€2,277 per resident · Metropolitan authorities: €1,165

What Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole spends, by policy

Streets and transport43%€516M
Waste, water and environment14%€170.4M
Culture, sport and youth10%€124.4M
Town planning and housing10%€118.7M
Loans: repayments and interest10%€116.5M
Administration and shared services7%€86M

The 4 other items (5%)

Economy and trade2%€29.5M
Public safety2%€25.7M
Health and social care< 1%€1.3M
Passed on to other bodies< 1%€2.7M

Source: 2025 accounts of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €1.19B, by recipient.

Companies and contractors54%€642.2M
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Grants and contributions20%€236.5M
Staff13%€155.8M
Pay and contributions.
Banks and lenders10%€116.5M
Compulsory contributions2%€21.8M
Joint bodies and syndicates< 1%€3.7M
Benefits paid to people< 1%€273k
Other1%€14.5M
Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole (DGFiP).

425 contracts signed in 2025 · €1.27B before tax

Why this total differs from the €642.2M 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

€431.3M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €824 per resident. Metropolitan authorities: €307.

Travaux d’entretien, de construction, de réparation d’ouvrages GEMAPI…2025 · Cazal€20M
Travaux et maintenance de voirie2025 · 3 companies€12.4M
Travaux de maintenance et d’extensions du réseau pluvial2024 · 2 companies€12M
Équipement en abris voyageurs maintenance entretien gestion publicité l1, l3, bus2025 · Jcdecaux France€11.3M
Travaux de terrassement pour la constructionet la réparation d’ouvrages hydraulique…2023–2024 · Buesa TP€10.6M

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

On top of that, €50.6M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €969.8M · borrowing: €190M · spending: €1.19B.

Breakdown of resources

Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)47%€565.5M
Grants for works and VAT refunds19%€222.8M
State and other contributions6%€74.6M
Users and rents6%€69.7M
Other receipts3%€37.2M
Borrowing16%€190M
Drawn from reserves3%€31.4M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€2,754 of debt per resident

Metropolitan authorities: €1,853

12.6 years of savings to repay it

€287 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 Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole

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

IntercommunalityMontpellier Méditerranée MétropoleWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
€2,277
DépartementHéraultMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
€1,370
RegionOccitanieHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
€529

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 Montpellier Méditerranée 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 Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole · Sources and method

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