Marseille
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2024, Marseille spent 159.4 M€ on this. That is €181 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
−11.3 pt Marseille devotes 12.9% of its operating budget to this; the median for towns of 100,000 inhabitants and over is 24.2%.
Ranked 38 of 40 by share of budget.In euros per inhabitant: €181, against €309 for the median (−41 %).
What for?
Arts activities and cultural events38.7 M€
Shared services30.7 M€
Museums21.1 M€
Other youth activities14.7 M€
Theatres and live performance12.9 M€
Stadiums11.5 M€
Libraries and media libraries10.0 M€
Other sports and leisure facilities4.8 M€
Swimming pools4.3 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums3.9 M€
Sports events2.7 M€
Cinemas and other performance venues2.6 M€
Other areas1.7 M€
Spent on what?
Other private bodies42.1 M€
Municipal social action centre20.7 M€
Basic pay15.9 M€
Energy — electricity12.8 M€
Municipal social action centre8.4 M€
Security and caretaking8.4 M€
Intermediary fees and professional fees — miscellaneous6.4 M€
Pension fund contributions5.6 M€
Other allowances4.9 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay4.7 M€
Social security agency contributions4.1 M€
Property rentals2.5 M€
Other types of spending23.1 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.