Municipality · Cluj county
What the town hall of Cluj-Napoca spent in 2025
- The town hall of Cluj-Napoca paid 2.3 bn lei in 2025, or 7,883 lei for each of its 286,598 residents (2021 census).
- Of every 100 lei, 27 went to schools, 14 to roads and transport and 12 to health.
- The figures include health (12% of the money): hospitals or clinics run by the town hall, which raise spending per resident.
- Per resident it spends more than 82% of municipalities of over 50,000 residents do (ranked 7th of 40) and is 4th of 6 among the towns and municipalities of Cluj county.
- 19% of the money (430 m lei) went to investment from the local budget (construction, roads, networks, land, equipment); the median for municipalities of over 50,000 residents is 11%.
- EU-funded and recovery-plan projects (titles 56, 58, 60 and 61) were another 17% of the money (384.8 m lei); they are not counted as investment.
- 29% of 2025's investment (124.9 m lei of 430 m lei) was paid in December; the median for municipalities of over 50,000 residents is 18%.
- Total paid, in current lei: 2023: 1.5 bn lei, 2024: 3.4 bn lei, 2025: 2.3 bn lei.
Of every 100 lei
lei out of every 100 lei spent
- Schools, kindergartens and nurseriessimilar places together: 1227
- Roads, streets and transportsimilar places together: 1814
- Social assistancesimilar places together: 912
- Healthsimilar places together: 1812
- Town hall and administrationsimilar places together: 1010
- Culture, sport and parkssimilar places together: 810
- Water, lighting, housing and energysimilar places together: 188
- Waste, sewage and environmentsimilar places together: 55
- Local police and fire brigadesimilar places together: 22
When investment is paid, month by month
Each row is a year; colour shows the share of that year's investment paid in the month; an outline marks the month of the local elections.
How it compares
| Here | Places of the same size | Median of the county's towns and municipalities | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spending per resident | 7,883 lei | 6,862 lei | 8,180 lei |
| Investment, % of spending | 19% | 11% | 11% |
| Administration, % of spending | 10% | 9% | 11% |
| Investment paid in December | 29% | 18% | 25% |
Largest items
| Item | Paid | Of total |
|---|---|---|
| Other education spending | 264.7 m lei | 12% |
| General hospitals | 235.2 m lei | 10% |
| Streets | 190.7 m lei | 8% |
| Parks, green spaces and sports grounds | 184.6 m lei | 8% |
| The town hall itself (executive authorities) | 172.5 m lei | 8% |
| Social assistance for disability (including personal assistants) | 139.2 m lei | 6% |
| Upper-secondary schools | 136.4 m lei | 6% |
Spending per resident by year (current lei)
Before publishing
Tax code of the town hall: 4305857. The sums are payments from the Ministry of Finance's budget execution, extracted between 6 and 12 November 2026 (Transparenta.eu). Questions for the town hall: which works were paid in December? How much of the spending comes from the state or from EU funds? Why did the total change from one year to the next? Send the town hall the figures before publishing, for its right of reply.
Figures are payments (not commitments) by the town hall and the bodies it runs: schools, libraries, sometimes hospitals. Population is from the 2021 census. Social assistance includes the wages of personal assistants of people with severe disabilities, paid by the town hall. Transfers between public bodies are not counted twice.