Mairie de Valognes

What Mairie de Valognes does

Mairie de Valognes is the municipal government of Valognes, a commune located in the Manche department of the Normandy region in northwestern France. As a French collectivité territoriale, it provides a full range of mandatory public services to residents, businesses, and visitors of the commune, including civil status administration (birth, death, marriage records, national ID cards, passports), electoral and census services, local tax collection (taxe foncière, CFE), urban planning, waste management coordination, social services through the CCAS, senior care coordination including EHPAD facilities, family and education services, cultural programming, and tourism infrastructure. The municipality serves as the political capital of the Communauté d'agglomération du Cotentin, a larger intercommunal structure comprising 129 communes and 182,000 inhabitants, with certain operational responsibilities (notably economic zones, since January 1, 2017) transferred to the agglomeration level.

The municipality operates through seven departmental directions covering family action, culture, HR, technical services, education, finance, and sports/leisure, supporting a workforce of 11-50 direct employees. Its service delivery blends physical infrastructure (Hôtel de Ville headquarters, schools, sports complexes Marcel Lechanoine and Gilbert Février, cultural venues including the Espace culturel de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Médiathèque Julien de Laillier, Cinéma Trianon, and École Municipale de Musique) with a digital platform suite that includes the Portail Familles portal for childcare and school-meal registration, online payment processing, online ticketing for cultural events, an administrative procedures portal, and an online cemetery mapping service.

Mairie de Valognes is governed by an elected mayor (currently M. Jacques COQUELIN) and municipal council, with operational and financial oversight from the French state and the Cotentin Agglomeration. Revenue is generated through three principal streams: local taxation (property taxes and business taxes), transaction-based service fees (cemetery plots, hall rentals, administrative certifications, school meals, childcare), and intergovernmental transfers from the French state, Normandy Region, and Cotentin Agglomeration. Detailed tariff schedules are published annually on the municipal website. The municipality has been awarded one star by the Guide Michelin Voyage & Culture, acknowledging its heritage as a 'Ville d'Art et d'Histoire' historically known as the 'Versailles Normand'.

Name

Mairie de Valognes

Legal name

Mairie de Valognes

Website

https://valognes.fr

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Mairie de Valognes is the municipal government of Valognes, a commune in Normandy, France. It delivers mandatory public services - civil status administration, local taxation, family services, cultural programming, and social services - to residents, businesses, and visitors while serving as the political capital of the 129-commune Cotentin Agglomeration.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Public Administration

NAICS

Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (925), Community Housing Services (62422), Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Mayor/City Manager & General Administration (BPAIACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

City Clerk/Records, Elections & Civic Engagement (BPAIACAB), Housing & Neighborhood Services (Local Housing Programs) (BPAIACAJ), Taxpayer Services, Education & Outreach (BPAIADAM)

Keywords

• Municipal public services
• Civil status administration
• Local government services
• Community services
• Public administration

Headquarters

HQ city

Valognes

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Local Taxes and Fiscal Revenue: Municipal revenue generated through local taxation including property taxes (taxe foncière), business taxes ( CFE ), and other fiscal contributions from residents and businesses within the commune.
2. Service Fees and Administrative Charges: Fees collected for administrative services including civil status documents, cemetery services, facility rentals (salles municipales), and other municipal services offered to citizens.
3. State Subsidies and Intergovernmental Transfers: Financial transfers and subsidies received from the French government, Normandy Region, and Cotentin Agglomeration to fund public services and infrastructure projects.

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Mairie de Valognes is the municipal government of the commune of Valognes (Manche, Normandy, France) that delivers public administrative and community services to residents and visitors. Its core offering includes civil status administration (birth, death, marriage, identity documents, passports), family and education services (Portail Familles registrations, school meals, peri-school and holiday childcare), social action through the CCAS (financial aid, senior services, EHPADs), cultural and sports programming (médiathèque, cinéma, music school, sports complexes, Estivales festival), urban planning, and online payment/ticketing platforms for municipal services and events.

Product overview

Mairie de Valognes operates a digital services platform offering residents access to municipal administration through multiple integrated service modules. The core offering includes the Portail Familles for family services (school meals, childcare, vacation activities), online payment processing, administrative procedures (civil status, IDs, passports, elections), cultural ticketing, and cemetery management. These services are accessible through the municipal website and dedicated portals, functioning as a multi-module citizen services platform rather than a traditional commercial product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Portail Familles: Online portal for families to register children for various municipal services including childcare, school meals, and leisure activities
• Espace Culturel de l'Hôtel-Dieu
• Médiathèque Julien de Laillier
• Cinéma Trianon
• Ecole Municipale de Musique
• Les Bains du Cotentin

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Communauté d'agglomération du CotentincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerValognes serves as the political capital of the Cotentin Agglomeration community which comprises 129 communes with 182,000 inhabitants. This is a fundamental inter-municipal cooperation structure where Valognes plays a central administrative role. The Agglomeration manages harmonized services including waste collection (déchèteries), economic zones, and traveler accommodation areas (aires d'accueil des gens du voyage). Economic activity zones were transferred to the Agglomeration on January 1, 2017.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Mairie d'Avranches: Small Manche commune with comparable administrative scope, tourism positioning (Mont Saint-Michel gateway), and service offerings to local residents.
• Mairie de Saint-Lô: Préfecture of the Manche department; operates a similar range of administrative, cultural, educational, and senior services and shares the same departmental governance and funding environment as Valognes.
• Mairie de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin: Largest commune within the same Cotentin Agglomeration; provides the same municipal service portfolio (civil status, schools, culture, urban planning) to a larger population, making it the most directly comparable local government peer.
• Mairie de Granville: Manche coastal commune with strong tourism focus, comparable municipal service portfolio, and similar heritage/cultural orientation to Valognes.
• Mairie de Coutances: Neighboring Manche department commune of comparable size and rural character, delivering the same French municipal administrative, cultural, and family services portfolio.

Broad incumbents

• Mairie de Caen: Major Normandy city offering a much broader municipal service portfolio across the same functional categories (administration, culture, family, urban planning) and a relevant benchmark for digital service delivery.
• Mairie de Rouen: Normandy regional capital; provides the same core municipal services at significantly greater scale, and serves as a reference for heritage/tourism positioning of Norman cities.
• Mairie de Rennes: Large French metropolitan authority; relevant as an upper-bound reference for citizen digital service platforms and integrated family service portals that Valognes aspires to scale within the Cotentin agglomeration.

Others

• Communauté d'Agglomération du Cotentin: Inter-municipal cooperation structure of which Valognes is the political capital; manages harmonized waste collection, economic zones, and selected services that interface directly with Valognes's municipal platform.

Regional players

• Mairie de Vire Normandie: Normandy commune (Calvados) of comparable scale and rural profile, useful as a peer for benchmarking service delivery and digital platform maturity across similarly sized Norman communes.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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