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Burleigh County, North Dakota

Burleigh County, North Dakota had $1.5 billion in federal award obligations in fiscal year 2025, according to USAspending.

That ranks 378 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 2 of 53 in North Dakota.

Identifiers

County FIPS
38015

The record

Reported figures for Burleigh County, North Dakota, 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.$1.5 billion USD
Rank among counties · FY2025378 of 3,232 by 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 Dakota · FY20252 of 53 by obligations
Rank among counties by federal contracts · FY2025$9,215,976 of federal contract obligations in FY2025.1,107 of 2,787 by federal contract obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.98,458 people
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.$15,673 USD per resident

By fiscal year

Burleigh County, North Dakota: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2023$908.0 million
FY2024$1.1 billion
FY2025$1.5 billion
FY2026 (in progress)$911.0 million
FY2027 (in progress)$0

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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Burleigh County, North Dakota: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Grants$915.5 million
Direct payments$585.0 million
Loans$29.9 million
Contracts$9.2 million
Other$3.4 million
Insurance$154,962

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $1.5 billion, against $1.5 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in North Dakota

counties in North Dakota, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Cass County$89.3 billion
3Grand Forks County$974.0 million
4Ward County$571.1 million
5Stutsman County$252.2 million
6Morton County$246.5 million
7Rolette County$203.7 million
8Williams County$201.2 million
9Stark County$190.0 million
10Richland County$168.4 million
11Sioux County$148.5 million

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 covers every county the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same download of the publisher’s data, on the date above.

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Sources

Compiled automatically from USAspending API v2 — dimension aggregations by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved