Besançon
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2024, Besançon spent 40.6 M€ on this. That is €331 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
+5.4 pt Besançon devotes 29.6% of its operating budget to this; the median for towns of 100,000 inhabitants and over is 24.2%.
Ranked 3 of 40 by share of budget.In euros per inhabitant: €331, against €309 for the median (+7 %).
What for?
Museums11.4 M€
Other youth activities5.9 M€
Shared services4.4 M€
Swimming pools4.0 M€
Libraries and media libraries4.0 M€
Theatres and live performance2.7 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums2.6 M€
Arts activities and cultural events1.6 M€
Cinemas and other performance venues1.5 M€
Heritage807 k€
Other sports and leisure facilities582 k€
Other477 k€
Other areas634 k€
Spent on what?
Basic pay9.5 M€
Other private bodies5.3 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay3.6 M€
Pension fund contributions3.4 M€
Joint bodies2.7 M€
Social security agency contributions2.7 M€
Other allowances2.5 M€
Energy — electricity2.3 M€
Purchases of services (other than land for development)1.5 M€
Operating grants to individuals, associations and other private bodies919 k€
Bonuses and other allowances764 k€
Municipal social action centre580 k€
Other types of spending4.8 M€
Towns of the same size, around it by share of budget
2024 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.