Municipality · Cluj county
What the town hall of Gherla spent in 2025
- The town hall of Gherla paid 123.4 m lei in 2025, or 6,208 lei for each of its 19,873 residents (2021 census).
- Of every 100 lei, 32 went to health, 24 to schools and 12 to administration.
- The figures include health (32% of the money): hospitals or clinics run by the town hall, which raise spending per resident.
- Per resident it spends more than 11% of municipalities of under 50,000 residents do (ranked 56th of 63) and is 6th of 6 among the towns and municipalities of Cluj county.
- 3% of the money (3.6 m lei) went to investment from the local budget (construction, roads, networks, land, equipment); the median for municipalities of under 50,000 residents is 9%.
- EU-funded and recovery-plan projects (titles 56, 58, 60 and 61) were another 27% of the money (33.6 m lei); they are not counted as investment.
- 10% of 2025's investment (360,400 lei of 3.6 m lei) was paid in December; the median for municipalities of under 50,000 residents is 23%.
- Total paid, in current lei: 2023: 101 m lei, 2024: 131.9 m lei, 2025: 123.4 m lei.
- The largest single item: general hospitals, 37.2 m lei (30% of the total).
Of every 100 lei
lei out of every 100 lei spent
- Healthsimilar places together: 3832
- Schools, kindergartens and nurseriessimilar places together: 1124
- Town hall and administrationsimilar places together: 812
- Social assistancesimilar places together: 910
- Water, lighting, housing and energysimilar places together: 139
- Waste, sewage and environmentsimilar places together: 55
- Culture, sport and parkssimilar places together: 64
- Roads, streets and transportsimilar places together: 82
- Local police and fire brigadesimilar places together: 11
- Othersimilar places together: 11
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 | 6,208 lei | 8,723 lei | 8,180 lei |
| Investment, % of spending | 3% | 9% | 11% |
| Administration, % of spending | 12% | 8% | 11% |
| Investment paid in December | 10% | 23% | 25% |
Largest items
| Item | Paid | Of total |
|---|---|---|
| General hospitals | 37.2 m lei | 30% |
| The town hall itself (executive authorities) | 13.5 m lei | 11% |
| Lower-secondary schools | 13.1 m lei | 11% |
| Social assistance for disability (including personal assistants) | 10.2 m lei | 8% |
| Nurseries | 5.4 m lei | 4% |
| Housing development | 5.2 m lei | 4% |
| Upper-secondary schools | 4.3 m lei | 4% |
Spending per resident by year (current lei)
Before publishing
Tax code of the town hall: 4349071. 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.