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Saint-Étienne, in Saint-Etienne Métropole
Photo (Saint-Étienne): Antoine Lamielle, CC BY-SA 4.0

Loire · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · 412,411 residents · Chair: Régis Juanico

Saint-Etienne Métropole

€396.9 million spent in 2025.

€963 per resident · Metropolitan authorities: €1,170

What Saint-Etienne Métropole spends, by policy

  • Waste, water and environment23%€91.6M
  • Administration and shared services18%€69.6M

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

  • Town planning and housing13%€52.5M
  • Loans: repayments and interest12%€48.6M
  • Streets and transport11%€44.9M
  • Culture, sport and youth9%€35.1M
  • Economy and trade6%€25.4M
  • Education1%€3.6M
The 3 other items (6%)
  • Health and social care< 1%€640k
  • Passed on to other bodies2%€8.9M
  • Not assigned to a policy4%€16M

Source: 2025 accounts of Saint-Etienne Métropole (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €396.9M, by recipient.

  • Companies and contractors43%€169.7M

    See the names ↓

  • Staff24%€94M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Grants and contributions14%€55.8M
  • Banks and lenders12%€48.6M
  • Joint bodies and syndicates2%€9.6M
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€5k
  • Other5%€19.2M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Saint-Etienne 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: €169.7M (its accounts).

298 contracts signed in 2025 · €322.2M before tax

What the intercommunality paid in 2025 for these kinds of purchase, from its accounts

  • Electricity, gas and heatingall suppliers together · contract in the list: Gaz de Bordeauxpaid €2.9M
  • Fuelall suppliers together · contract in the list: Pianapaid €826k

The accounts say how much was paid for each kind of purchase, not to which company. A purchase paid by another public body (joint order, shared service) is not in them.

Why this total differs from the €169.7M 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

€101.2M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €245 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, €37.2M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Saint-Etienne Métropole (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €345.3M · borrowing: €62.9M · spending: €396.9M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)33%€133.9M
  • State and other contributions22%€91.8M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…13%€54.4M
  • Users and rents13%€52.9M
  • Other receipts3%€12.2M
  • Borrowing15%€62.9M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€1,700 of debt per resident

Metropolitan authorities: €1,853

5.8 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 Saint-Etienne Métropole

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

  • IntercommunalitySaint-Etienne MétropoleWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €963
  • DépartementLoireMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,170
  • RegionAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €563

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 Saint-Etienne 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 Saint-Etienne Métropole: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Saint-Etienne Métropole · Sources and method

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