Tool · Fragmented territorial administration

How much does your locality's administration cost, per resident?

Choose your locality and see how much it spent in 2024 on general public services, relative to its number of residents, compared with localities of the same type and similar size.

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Median administrative cost per resident, by size — communes

lei per resident, excluding interest · 2024 · groups with at least 10 communes

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Administrative cost per resident by population group, communes, 2024
Residents	No. of communes	25th percentile	Median	75th percentile
under 1,000	122	1,761 lei	2,259 lei	3,066 lei
1,000–1,999	717	1,028 lei	1,268 lei	1,658 lei
2,000–2,999	741	791 lei	941 lei	1,160 lei
3,000–4,999	813	654 lei	778 lei	977 lei
5,000–9,999	413	538 lei	646 lei	810 lei
10,000–19,999	50	498 lei	575 lei	807 lei

How we calculated

Administrative cost is approximated by spending on “General public services” (chapter 50.02) in the 2024 budget execution: the town hall and local council apparatus, other general services and interest on local debt.^[1]
The result is a range: the lower bound excludes interest (title 30), the upper bound includes it, because the dataset does not separate it exactly by chapter.^[1]
The number of residents is the population on 1 January 2024.^[2]
The comparison is made only with localities of the same type (commune, town, municipality) and in the same population group, on the cost excluding interest.

What this calculation does not show

A cost above the median does not automatically mean waste: it may reflect investments or EU-funded projects classified under general services, one-off exceptional expenses or local particularities.
Budget execution shows how much was paid, not the quality or volume of the services provided.
The Municipality of Bucharest and the county councils are not included, because their execution is not comparable with that of town halls.

Sources

Primary official sources; where we use the press (only when the official document is not public) we mark it. The links lead to the original document or to the report cited (titles are translated; the documents themselves are in Romanian unless stated).

[1]
Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration — Situation of the revenue and expenditure execution of local budgets by administrative-territorial unit, at 31.12.2024 (Annex no. 24) (in Romanian) (published on data.gov.ro, CC BY 4.0 licence)
Published 16 December 2025 · Accessed 15 October 2026 · the original document(opens in a new tab)
[2]
Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration — Final population of Romania on 1 January 2024, by locality (in Romanian) (INS data republished on data.gov.ro, CC BY 4.0 licence)
Published 3 April 2026 · Accessed 15 October 2026 · the original document(opens in a new tab)
[3]
National Institute of Statistics — SIRUTA: Register of administrative-territorial units, 2025 annual edition (in Romanian) (published on data.gov.ro, CC BY 4.0 licence)
Published 22 January 2026 · Accessed 15 October 2026 · the original document(opens in a new tab)