In order to further improve the fuel consumption of a vehicle, this vehicle control device is mounted in a vehicle having an engine, a battery that can be charged by an amount of electricity produced by a generator driven by the power of the engine, and auxiliary equipment operated by using power from the battery. The vehicle control device is provided with an idling stop control unit, a state of charge (SOC) detection unit, a current value acquisition unit, a current correction unit, an idling stop capacity setting unit, and a remaining capacity setting unit. The current correction unit is provided with: a smoothing processing unit (S160) that performs a smoothing process on current values acquired by the current value acquisition unit; a prescribed auxiliary operation determination unit (step S140) that determines whether or not a prescribed auxiliary machine, which belongs to the auxiliary equipment and can temporarily rapidly alter the current value, is in an operating state; and a current change restraining unit (S180) that restrains the effects of the latest current value obtained by the current value acquisition unit during the smoothing process when it has been determined that the prescribed auxiliary machine is in an operating state.