Marseille
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2025, Marseille spent 151.8 M€ on this. That is €173 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
Less than elsewhere. Marseille devotes 11.6% of its operating budget to this. Towns of 100,000 inhabitants and over usually devote 22.5%.
In euros per inhabitant: €173, against €305 usually (−43 %).
What for?
Arts activities and cultural events38.4 M€
Shared services26.2 M€
Museums19.1 M€
Other youth activities14.7 M€
Theatres and live performance13.6 M€
Stadiums10.5 M€
Libraries and media libraries9.6 M€
Other sports and leisure facilities5.3 M€
Swimming pools4.4 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums3.6 M€
Cinemas and other performance venues2.7 M€
Sports events2.4 M€
Other areas1.4 M€
Spent on what?
Other private bodies41.5 M€
Municipal social action centre20.3 M€
Basic pay15.7 M€
Energy — electricity8.7 M€
Security and caretaking8.2 M€
Municipal social action centre8.1 M€
Pension fund contributions6.0 M€
Other allowances5.0 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay5.0 M€
Intermediary fees and professional fees — miscellaneous4.4 M€
Social security agency contributions4.3 M€
Operating grants to individuals, associations and other private bodies2.4 M€
Other types of spending22.1 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.