Federal Spending by State

Federal contract spending across 56 states and territories.

The state money map

According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, Virginia is #1 of 54 by calendar-2024 place-of-performance dollars ($111.4B) at 2023-to-2024 #27 (+1.6%) ≠ Wisconsin #1 2023-to-2024 change (+60.8%) at dollars #24 ($8.7B).

$111.4B
#1 dollars Virginia
+60.8%
#1 2023-2024 Wisconsin
#27
Virginia change rank
#24
Wisconsin dollars rank

Calendar place-of-performance dollars and year-to-year change are two maps on the same extract. Not a forecast of future awards.

Jurisdiction inventory

Exclusive cut of the 56 place-of-performance jurisdictions in this extract (50 states + DC + territories). Orthogonal to the dollars≠YoY dual above: a roster count, not an award sum.

# State Total Awards
1 Virginia $111.4B
2 Texas $66.5B
3 California $59.5B
4 Maryland $48.2B
5 District of Columbia $36.8B
6 Florida $30.6B
7 Pennsylvania $27.1B
8 Connecticut $22.7B
9 Arizona $19.3B
10 Massachusetts $18.9B
11 Alabama $17.7B
12 Missouri $16.1B
13 Colorado $15.6B
14 Washington $15.6B
15 New York $14.1B
16 Illinois $13.3B
17 New Mexico $12.8B
18 Kentucky $11.8B
19 Georgia $10.8B
20 South Carolina $10.7B
21 New Jersey $10.0B
22 Tennessee $10.0B
23 Ohio $9.3B
24 Wisconsin $8.7B
25 North Carolina $7.6B
26 Michigan $7.2B
27 Utah $6.9B
28 Mississippi $6.4B
29 Hawaii $6.4B
30 Oklahoma $5.8B
31 Indiana $5.4B
32 Louisiana $4.2B
33 Maine $3.8B
34 Alaska $3.8B
35 Idaho $3.7B
36 Nevada $3.6B
37 Kansas $3.5B
38 Iowa $3.0B
39 Minnesota $3.0B
40 Guam $2.8B
41 Oregon $2.5B
42 New Hampshire $2.3B
43 West Virginia $2.1B
44 Arkansas $2.0B
45 Montana $1.3B
46 South Dakota $1.3B
47 Nebraska $1.2B
48 Puerto Rico $1.1B
49 North Dakota $1.1B
50 Rhode Island $1.0B
51 Vermont $793.0M
52 Wyoming $612.1M
53 Delaware $362.4M
54 Northern Mariana Islands $94.8M
55 Virgin Islands $54.0M
56 American Samoa $22.3M

Source: USAspending.gov

Download the federal contract statistics CSV cited on this page: federal-contract-statistics.csv (CC BY 4.0).

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