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Atlas Culture is a website which came out of the fourth round of the interministerial “Public Interest Entrepreneurs” [Entrepreneurs d’intérêt général] programme designed to support the government’s digital transition. Atlas Culture is designed to help cultural players understand cultural activities across different territories and allow them to cross-reference this information with contextual data, in order to profile territories and their populations. It therefore covers a number of indicators from national surveys, including the proportion of cultural professionals (percentage of the working population primarily engaged in a cultural occupation), the proportion of the working population in the cultural sectors (percentage of the working population employed in a cultural sector, not necessarily in a culture-related role), and the proportion of cultural businesses in the market sectors. It also indicates local authority cultural expenditure for those areas with a population of over 3,500 as well as cultural expenditure (in euros per head of population). Finally, it gives an overview of the cultural offering of cultural places and facilities (e.g. theatres, museums, libraries, conservatories, notable gardens, homes of famous figures, UNESCO World Heritage sites, etc.). All these indicators can be cross-referenced with the socio-economic data available for France as a whole (excepting certain data, which is only available for metropolitan France), such as the proportion of young people in the population, the average standard of living, regional wealth in terms of gross domestic product, etc.Atlas Culture has been under construction since 2021 and now gives a picture of each of the eighteen French regions. This study summarises aggregate data at a national level for cultural offerings, employment and occupations as well as businesses and public cultural expenditure.