La Rochelle
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2025, La Rochelle spent 26.4 M€ on this. That is €327 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
Slightly less than elsewhere. La Rochelle devotes 20.7% of its operating budget to this. Towns of 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants usually devote 21.2%.
In euros per inhabitant: €327, against €300 usually (+9 %).
What for?
Leisure centres6.3 M€
Museums4.6 M€
Other2.5 M€
Arts activities and cultural events2.5 M€
Other sports and leisure facilities1.9 M€
Shared services1.9 M€
Other youth activities1.6 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums1.5 M€
Libraries and media libraries1.5 M€
Stadiums812 k€
Archive services555 k€
Theatres and live performance299 k€
Other areas318 k€
Spent on what?
Basic pay6.0 M€
Other private bodies5.5 M€
Pension fund contributions2.3 M€
Other allowances2.0 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay1.8 M€
Social security agency contributions1.8 M€
Energy — electricity1.1 M€
Bonuses and other allowances550 k€
Other external staff500 k€
Premises cleaning437 k€
Other miscellaneous social charges386 k€
Service contracts367 k€
Other types of spending3.7 M€
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.