Where does public money
go in ?
Belliard Swimming Pool
13,2 M €
See the project page
Paris Musées (city museums)
65 M €
See the recipient page
Green space maintenance
44 M €
See the category
Paris Habitat
2,72 Md €
See the landlord page
462€per Parisian per month
11,72 Bn € voted budget this year
Explore the detail, section by section.
The analyses.
To go beyond the raw figures of the site. Investigations and comparisons, sourced from the official accounts.
Grants Paris: €1.35Bn in 2024, 60% to 200 public operators
Of 1,353 M€ paid to 5,948 beneficiaries in 2024, 816 M€ went to 201 public establishments — CASVP leading the pack at €416M. The 2,769 actual Paris associations shared 280 M€ between them. Anatomy of a little-known cascade.
The municipal golden rule: what article L.1612-4 actually says
A municipality cannot borrow to pay its salaries. This rule, codified in article L.1612-4 of the Code général des collectivités territoriales, is what radically separates a municipal budget from the State's. Anatomy of a short text and its consequences.
Paris 2024: anatomy of a delivery peak
Between 2022 and 2024, the Ville de Paris delivered 48 sports and cultural facilities tied to the Games. Investment up 22%, six cost overruns above 30%, one cancellation, ongoing litigation. Accounting reconstruction of a cycle unlike any other.
Auditable, line by line.
Every source is public
Annual financial accounts of the City, open datasets on opendata.paris.fr, deliberations of the Conseil de Paris: 199 official datasets aligned over several years, including those extracted from PDFs where Open Data stops.
See sources →Every figure traces back to its source
Before a figure shows on screen, the pipeline cleans labels, cross-checks sources and matches the totals against the official documents, to the cent. More than 170 automated checks run on every update.
Read the method →The pipeline is open
Extraction, cleaning, transformations, checks: everything is published under the AGPL-3.0 free licence. Anyone can download it, run it and recompute every figure from the official documents.
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