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Charles County, Maryland

Charles County, Maryland has $1.4 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 409 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 10 of 24 in Maryland.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
24017

The record

Reported figures for Charles County, Maryland, 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.$1,408,223,343USD
Rank among counties · FY2025409 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 Maryland · FY202510 of 24by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.166,617people
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.$8,452USD per resident

By fiscal year

Charles County, Maryland: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$1,102,170,074
FY2023$1,189,193,270
FY2024$1,333,854,613
FY2025$1,408,223,343
FY2026$1,238,601,637

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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Charles County, Maryland: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$1,023,616,706
Contracts$358,149,526
Grants$17,790,274
Loans$7,022,678
Other$1,189,408
Insurance$454,751

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $1.4 billion, against $1.4 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in Maryland

counties in Maryland, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Montgomery County$18,028,608,260
2Baltimore City$10,865,797,552
3Prince George's County$10,172,458,861
4Baltimore County$8,678,884,177
5Howard County$8,591,435,873
6Anne Arundel County$8,435,625,982
7St. Mary's County$5,369,282,643
8Harford County$4,078,553,305
9Frederick County$3,109,952,593
11Carroll County$1,168,344,511

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

Charles County, Maryland: $1.4 billion (FY2025)