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Berkeley County, South Carolina

Berkeley County, South Carolina has $2.3 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 278 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 7 of 46 in South Carolina.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
45015

The record

Reported figures for Berkeley County, South 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.$2,323,748,655USD
Rank among counties · FY2025278 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 South Carolina · FY20257 of 46by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.229,861people
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.$10,109USD per resident

By fiscal year

Berkeley County, South Carolina: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$1,694,084,641
FY2023$3,663,588,262
FY2024$4,577,023,406
FY2025$2,323,748,655
FY2026$2,489,555,188

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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Berkeley County, South Carolina: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$1,568,810,316
Contracts$619,353,000
Other$95,303,495
Grants$31,421,254
Loans$7,204,421
Insurance$1,656,169

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $2.3 billion, against $2.3 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in South Carolina

counties in South Carolina, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Richland County$80,243,964,713
2Charleston County$5,135,124,861
3Aiken County$4,819,264,742
4Horry County$4,040,831,261
5Greenville County$3,912,198,050
6Lexington County$2,372,538,179
8Spartanburg County$2,259,677,202
9Beaufort County$1,999,102,521
10York County$1,840,558,753
11Anderson County$1,527,571,057

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