Caen
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2024, Caen spent 30.5 M€ on this. That is €276 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
+3.7 pt Caen devotes 27.9% of its operating budget to this; the median for towns of 100,000 inhabitants and over is 24.2%.
Ranked 7 of 40 by share of budget.In euros per inhabitant: €276, against €309 for the median (−11 %).
What for?
Museums7.1 M€
Other youth activities6.8 M€
Shared services4.2 M€
Theatres and live performance4.2 M€
Arts activities and cultural events3.4 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums3.2 M€
Sports events687 k€
Heritage400 k€
Stadiums313 k€
Archive services130 k€
Other sports and leisure facilities107 k€
Cinemas and other performance venues76 k€
Spent on what?
Other private bodies9.1 M€
Deficit of administrative ancillary budgets4.2 M€
Basic pay4.0 M€
Energy — electricity1.8 M€
Pension fund contributions1.4 M€
Miscellaneous public bodies1.3 M€
Other allowances1.1 M€
Businesses1.1 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay1.0 M€
Social security agency contributions901 k€
Advertising, publications and public relations — miscellaneous464 k€
Service contracts450 k€
Other types of spending3.6 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.