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Loire-Atlantique · Pays de la Loire · 695,303 residents · Chair: Johanna Rolland

Nantes Métropole

€860.8 million spent in 2025.

€1,238 per resident · Metropolitan authorities: €1,165

What Nantes Métropole spends, by policy

  • Administration and shared services24%€205.7M

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

  • Town planning and housing19%€159.7M
  • Streets and transport18%€155.3M
  • Economy and trade11%€97.1M
  • Loans: repayments and interest10%€85.9M
  • Waste, water and environment5%€44.5M
  • Public safety5%€40.7M
  • Culture, sport and youth4%€33.7M
  • Health and social care3%€22.5M
The 2 other items (2%)
  • Education2%€15.2M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€571k

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

Suppliers and recipients

The same €860.8M, by recipient.

  • Companies and contractors43%€370.2M

    See the names ↓

  • Staff23%€197.2M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Grants and contributions17%€143.3M
  • Banks and lenders10%€85.9M
  • Compulsory contributions4%€32.4M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates1%€7.7M
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€2.6M
  • Other2%€21.5M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Nantes Métropole (DGFiP).

258 contracts signed in 2025 · €422.6M before tax

Why this total differs from the €370.2M 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

€275.4M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €396 per resident. Metropolitan authorities: €307.

  • Marché global de performance relatif à la conception, réalisation et maintenance d’un parking de 630 places…2025 · Sogea Atlantique BTP (Sisteo)€17.1M
  • Travaux de création de branchements d’assainissement et d’eaux pluviales…2025 · Dle Ouest€6M
  • Renouvellement du feeder AEP2025 · Conduites et Canalisations Atlantique - Coca Atlantique€4.6M
  • Travaux de restauration des milieux aquatiques sur le territoire de Nantes Métropole2025 · Terelian€3.6M
  • Travaux liés au renouvellement des arbres et à la plantation, végétalisation des espaces publics…2024 · Ste d'Entretien et de Restauration du Patrimoine et de l'Environnement€3.3M

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

On top of that, €67.1M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

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

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €625.4M · borrowing: €269.4M · spending: €860.8M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)32%€290.7M
  • State and other contributions17%€151M
  • Users and rents12%€104.7M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds7%€61.3M
  • Other receipts2%€17.6M
  • Borrowing30%€269.4M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€2,207 of debt per resident

Metropolitan authorities: €1,853

7.2 years of savings to repay it

€134 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 Nantes Métropole

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

  • IntercommunalityNantes MétropoleWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €1,238
  • DépartementLoire-AtlantiqueMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,013
  • RegionPays de la LoireHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €449

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

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

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