Lens
Enseignement-formation
In 2024, Lens spent 5.5 M€ on this. That is €168 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
−5.9 pt Lens devotes 11.9% of its operating budget to this; the median for towns of 20,000 to 50,000 inhabitants is 17.9%.
Ranked 289 of 342 by share of budget.In euros per inhabitant: €168, against €238 for the median (−29 %).
What for?
Combined classes2.1 M€
Primary schools1.7 M€
School boarding and catering1.2 M€
Nursery schools352 k€
Shared services81 k€
School health service26 k€
Security13 k€
Other school support services2 k€
Spent on what?
Basic pay1.6 M€
Energy — electricity536 k€
Purchases of services (other than land for development)515 k€
Pension fund contributions480 k€
District heating343 k€
Other allowances326 k€
Other compulsory contributions248 k€
To third parties243 k€
Social security agency contributions229 k€
Premises cleaning213 k€
School supplies101 k€
Service contracts99 k€
Other types of spending619 k€
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.