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Cumberland County, Maine

Cumberland County, Maine has $3.8 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 184 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 1 of 16 in Maine.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
23005

The record

Reported figures for Cumberland County, Maine, 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.$3,825,811,686USD
Rank among counties · FY2025184 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 Maine · FY20251 of 16by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.303,069people
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.$12,624USD per resident

By fiscal year

Cumberland County, Maine: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$3,116,018,909
FY2023$3,323,958,624
FY2024$3,555,146,686
FY2025$3,825,811,686
FY2026$3,387,874,012

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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Cumberland County, Maine: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$3,166,765,660
Contracts$480,365,515
Grants$175,498,699
Other$2,042,129
Insurance$1,095,351
Loans$44,333

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $3.8 billion, against $3.8 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in Maine

counties in Maine, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
2Sagadahoc County$2,681,239,741
3York County$2,405,528,263
4Kennebec County$1,734,367,301
5Penobscot County$1,411,456,137
6Androscoggin County$787,905,326
7Aroostook County$765,794,424
8Hancock County$589,330,761
9Oxford County$492,353,187
10Washington County$474,714,866
11Somerset County$438,250,159

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

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