The department of Allier has, since 1 January 2017, had eleven public establishments for intercommunal cooperation (EPCI) with their own tax system: three communautés d'agglomération and eight communautés de communes.
Until 2016, the department had twenty-one intercommunal structures (three communautés d'agglomération and eighteen communautés de communes).
The 320 communes (318 in 2016 and 317 since 2017) of the department are part of a communautés d'agglomération/de communes of Allier or one of its neighbouring departments.
Agglomeration communities | CA Vichy Communauté | 200071363 | 1 January 2017 | 39 | 82,759 | 741.30 | 112 | Vichy | Frédéric Aguilera | [1] | |
CA Moulins Communauté | 200071140 | 1 January 2017 | 44 (including 42 in Allier) | 64,963 | 1,336.20 | 49 | Moulins | Pierre-André Périssol | [2] | ||
CA Montluçon Communauté | 200071082 | 1 January 2017 | 21 | 61,151 | 377.80 | 162 | Daniel Duglery | [3] | |||
Communauté de communes | CC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne | 200071512 | 1 January 2017 | 60 | 34,033 | 911.40 | 37 | Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule | Véronique Pouzadoux | [4] | |
CC Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté | 200071512 | 1 January 2017 | 33 | 25,858 | 728 | 36 | Commentry | Bruno Rojouan | [5] | ||
CC Entr'Allier Besbre et Loire | 200071470 | 1 January 2017 | 44 | 24,773 | 1,089.50 | 23 | Varennes-sur-Allier | Roger Litaudon | [6] | ||
CC du Bocage Bourbonnais | 200071496 | 1 January 2017 | 25 | 13,767 | 735.70 | 19 | Bourbon-l'Archambault | Jean-Paul Dufregne | [7] | ||
CC du Pays de Lapalisse | 240300491 | 20 December 1997 | 14 | 8,476 | 334 | 25 | Lapalisse | Jacques De Chabannes | [8] | ||
CC du Pays d'Huriel | 240300657 | 1 December 2001 | 14 | 7,487 | 378.50 | 20 | Huriel | Michel Tabutin | [9] | ||
CC du Pays de Tronçais | 240300558 | 30 December 1999 | 15 | 7,472 | 495.60 | 15 | Cérilly | Denis Clerget | [10] | ||
CC du Val de Cher | 240300566 | 3 February 2000 | 7 | 5,544 | 192.30 | 29 | Audes | Gérard Ciofolo | [11] | ||
Intercommunalities whose seats are located outside of the department | |||||||||||
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Communauté de communes | CC Le Grand Charolais | 200071884 | 1 January 2017 | 44 (including 3 in Allier) | 40,136 | 941.90 | 43 | Paray-le-Monial (Saône-et-Loire) | Fabien Genet | [12] |
By prefectural decree of 8 December 2017, the commune of Saint-Point was moved from the communauté de communes Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne to the agglomerated community of Vichy Communauté.[13]