Lille
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2025, Lille spent 94.2 M€ on this. That is €395 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
More than elsewhere. Lille devotes 25.1% of its operating budget to this. Towns of 100,000 inhabitants and over usually devote 22.5%.
In euros per inhabitant: €395, against €305 usually (+29 %).
What for?
Arts activities and cultural events18.1 M€
Other youth activities16.4 M€
Museums13.0 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums10.6 M€
Theatres and live performance10.4 M€
Libraries and media libraries8.1 M€
Swimming pools4.0 M€
Other sports and leisure facilities3.4 M€
Shared services2.8 M€
Cinemas and other performance venues2.4 M€
Leisure centres1.3 M€
Heritage1.2 M€
Other areas2.6 M€
Spent on what?
Basic pay29.1 M€
Other private bodies12.5 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay10.8 M€
Pension fund contributions10.4 M€
Social security agency contributions7.8 M€
Other allowances4.7 M€
Other compulsory contributions3.2 M€
Fairs and exhibitions1.7 M€
Other external services — other1.6 M€
Security and caretaking1.4 M€
Bonuses and other allowances893 k€
Transport levy829 k€
Other types of spending9.2 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.