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Boone County, Kentucky

Boone County, Kentucky has $879.5 million of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 576 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 8 of 120 in Kentucky.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
21015

The record

Reported figures for Boone County, Kentucky, 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.$879,514,759USD
Rank among counties · FY2025576 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 Kentucky · FY20258 of 120by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.135,968people
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.$6,469USD per resident

By fiscal year

Boone County, Kentucky: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$724,676,605
FY2023$679,959,479
FY2024$753,250,844
FY2025$879,514,759
FY2026$796,153,749

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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Boone County, Kentucky: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$736,425,216
Grants$75,112,748
Contracts$66,121,674
Other$882,223
Loans$797,580
Insurance$175,318

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $879.5 million, against $879.5 million for all award types together.

Other counties in Kentucky

counties in Kentucky, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Jefferson County$122,131,299,359
2Fayette County$3,111,754,106
3Franklin County$1,721,167,364
4Hardin County$1,306,275,297
5Kenton County$1,094,872,715
6Madison County$982,898,785
7Clark County$898,904,654
9Warren County$748,643,240
10Daviess County$728,404,225
11Christian County$617,824,034

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

Boone County, Kentucky: $879.5 million (FY2025)