Kourou
Sécurité et salubrité publiques
In 2025, Kourou spent 4.0 M€ on this. That is €159 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
More than elsewhere. Kourou devotes 8.9% of its operating budget to this. Towns of 20,000 to 50,000 inhabitants usually devote 4.3%.
In euros per inhabitant: €159, against €58 usually (+177 %).
What for?
Fire and rescue2.3 M€
Police, security and justice1.6 M€
Other protection of people and property70 k€
Spent on what?
Fire service2.3 M€
Basic pay585 k€
Other allowances435 k€
Pension fund contributions222 k€
Social security agency contributions137 k€
Non-permanent staff — pay102 k€
Maintenance73 k€
Bonuses and other allowances48 k€
Contributions to the local government training and management bodies21 k€
New indexed bonus17 k€
Family supplement and residence allowance8 k€
Service contracts8 k€
Other types of spending23 k€
Towns of the same size, around it by share of budget
2025 operating expenditure, as the town voted it by function. Source: DGFiP — balances comptables, présentation croisée nature-fonction. The comparison is first on the share of the operating budget — the reading that does not depend on how wealthy the town is — then on euros per inhabitant, against the median of towns in the same DGFiP population band. Transfers to the inter-municipal body are excluded on both sides.