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Avery County, North Carolina

Avery County, North Carolina has $152.6 million of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 1,917 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 86 of 100 in North Carolina.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
37011

The record

Reported figures for Avery County, North Carolina, each linked to its source
Obligated · FY2025Direct payments are recorded against a place that is not necessarily where the people receiving them live, and they are most of this figure in most counties. The award-type split below is the part of it that means what it sounds like.$152,580,840USD
Rank among counties · FY20251,917 of 3,232by obligations
Share of all counties · FY2025Of $4.1 trillion, which is what every county the publisher reported obligated in FY2025 — 77.0% of the $5.3 trillion federal total for the year.< 0.1%percent
Rank within North Carolina · FY202586 of 100by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.17,806people
Per resident · FY2025Money recorded here divided by the people who live here. Where the figure is mostly direct payments, the numerator and the denominator are not about the same people.$8,569USD per resident

By fiscal year

Avery County, North Carolina: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$104,621,353
FY2023$109,955,901
FY2024$113,999,763
FY2025$152,580,840
FY2026$118,384,722

The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this county was not reported in, not a year of no spending.

By award type

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Avery County, North Carolina: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$121,913,520
Insurance$12,746,733
Contracts$9,427,151
Grants$5,470,446
Loans$2,513,123
Other$509,867

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $152.6 million, against $152.6 million for all award types together.

Other counties in North Carolina

counties in North Carolina, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Wake County$12,925,218,164
2Durham County$6,129,271,056
3Mecklenburg County$5,845,277,723
4Cumberland County$4,308,706,169
5Guilford County$4,102,091,058
6Buncombe County$3,615,822,892
7Forsyth County$2,850,865,709
8Onslow County$2,390,618,005
9Brunswick County$2,152,195,182
10New Hanover County$1,967,985,870

What this data cannot show

  • An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
  • Direct payments are recorded against a place that is not necessarily where the people receiving them live, and they are most of this figure in most counties. The award-type split below is the part of it that means what it sounds like.
  • This page is built from the database rather than from the committed extract, so it covers every county the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same ingest on the date above.

Sources

Data retrieved

Avery County, North Carolina: $152.6 million (FY2025)