Montpellier
Culture, vie sociale, jeunesse et sports
In 2024, Montpellier spent 52.6 M€ on this. That is €172 per inhabitant.
Against towns of the same size
−8.6 pt Montpellier devotes 15.6% of its operating budget to this; the median for towns of 100,000 inhabitants and over is 24.2%.
Ranked 35 of 40 by share of budget.In euros per inhabitant: €172, against €309 for the median (−44 %).
What for?
Shared services25.1 M€
Culture, community life, youth, sports and leisure12.0 M€
Other sports and leisure facilities5.6 M€
Museums3.4 M€
Sports halls and gymnasiums1.3 M€
Theatres and live performance1.3 M€
Other youth activities1.2 M€
Leisure centres678 k€
Sports events542 k€
Arts activities and cultural events504 k€
Cinemas and other performance venues468 k€
Stadiums269 k€
Archive services195 k€
Spent on what?
Interest paid at maturity10.7 M€
Basic pay9.3 M€
Other private bodies3.8 M€
Staff seconded by the parent inter-municipal body3.3 M€
Other allowances3.1 M€
Pension fund contributions3.1 M€
Other local public bodies3.0 M€
Social security agency contributions2.1 M€
Non-permanent staff — pay2.0 M€
Energy — electricity1.6 M€
Other miscellaneous costs1.6 M€
Bonuses and other allowances692 k€
Other types of spending8.3 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.