Nîmes
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2025, Nîmes spent 46.4 M€ on this. That is €309 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
Slightly less than elsewhere. Nîmes devotes 20.5% of its operating budget to this. Towns of 100,000 inhabitants and over usually devote 22.5%.
In euros per inhabitant: €309, against €305 usually (+1 %).
What for?
Museums9.3 M€
Shared services9.0 M€
Arts activities and cultural events6.4 M€
Libraries and media libraries5.8 M€
Other sports and leisure facilities4.5 M€
Theatres and live performance3.2 M€
Leisure centres2.9 M€
Other youth activities1.2 M€
Swimming pools925 k€
Sports events924 k€
Sports halls and gymnasiums876 k€
Cinemas and other performance venues681 k€
Other areas739 k€
Spent on what?
Basic pay11.1 M€
Other private bodies9.3 M€
Service contracts5.8 M€
Pension fund contributions4.0 M€
Other allowances2.4 M€
Social security agency contributions2.1 M€
Energy — electricity1.7 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay1.4 M€
Advertising, publications and public relations — miscellaneous1.2 M€
Other supplies991 k€
Other local public bodies950 k€
Purchases of services (other than land for development)521 k€
Other types of spending5.0 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.