Béziers
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2024, Béziers spent 16.1 M€ on this. That is €197 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
−7 pt Béziers devotes 14.4% of its operating budget to this; the median for towns of 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants is 21.4%.
Ranked 73 of 81 by share of budget.In euros per inhabitant: €197, against €302 for the median (−35 %).
What for?
Shared services3.5 M€
Other youth activities3.1 M€
Arts activities and cultural events2.7 M€
Stadiums2.5 M€
Museums1.3 M€
Theatres and live performance1.2 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums417 k€
Archive services391 k€
Preventive archaeology332 k€
Heritage272 k€
Cinemas and other performance venues263 k€
Leisure centres111 k€
Other sports and leisure facilities4 k€
Spent on what?
Basic pay3.8 M€
Other private bodies1.6 M€
Intermediary fees and professional fees — miscellaneous1.4 M€
Pension fund contributions1.3 M€
Social security agency contributions932 k€
Other allowances896 k€
Energy — electricity836 k€
Businesses800 k€
Non-permanent staff — pay723 k€
Other external services — other494 k€
Premises cleaning473 k€
Security and caretaking400 k€
Other types of spending2.4 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.