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Dorchester County, Maryland

Dorchester County, Maryland had $259.6 million in federal award obligations in fiscal year 2025, according to USAspending API v2 — dimension aggregations.

Dorchester County, Maryland has $259.6 million of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 1,389 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 20 of 24 in Maryland.

Identifiers

County FIPS
24019

The record

Reported figures for Dorchester 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.$259.6 millionUSD
Rank among counties · FY20251,389 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 · FY202520 of 24by obligations
Rank among counties by federal contracts · FY2025$1,069,232 of federal contract obligations in FY2025.1,784 of 2,787by federal contract obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.32,531people
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.$7,981USD per resident

By fiscal year

Dorchester County, Maryland: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$259.8 million
FY2023$240.2 million
FY2024$285.3 million
FY2025$259.6 million
FY2026$364.1 million

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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Dorchester County, Maryland: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$240.7 million
Grants$15.6 million
Other$1.8 million
Contracts$1.1 million
Loans$257.5 thousand
Insurance$121.9 thousand

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $259.6 million, against $259.6 million for all award types together.

Other counties in Maryland

counties in Maryland, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Montgomery County$18.0 billion
2Baltimore City$10.9 billion
3Prince George's County$10.2 billion
4Baltimore County$8.7 billion
5Howard County$8.6 billion
6Anne Arundel County$8.4 billion
7St. Mary's County$5.4 billion
8Harford County$4.1 billion
9Frederick County$3.1 billion
10Charles County$1.4 billion

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.

Sources

Data retrieved