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Forrest County, Mississippi

Forrest County, Mississippi has $625.9 million of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 754 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 11 of 82 in Mississippi.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
28035

The record

Reported figures for Forrest County, Mississippi, 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.$625,938,274USD
Rank among counties · FY2025754 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 Mississippi · FY202511 of 82by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.78,158people
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.$8,009USD per resident

By fiscal year

Forrest County, Mississippi: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$610,258,448
FY2023$545,396,306
FY2024$584,781,581
FY2025$625,938,274
FY2026$535,886,257

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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Forrest County, Mississippi: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$511,229,976
Grants$80,414,204
Contracts$23,340,016
Loans$8,610,212
Other$2,275,549
Insurance$68,317

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $625.9 million, against $625.9 million for all award types together.

Other counties in Mississippi

counties in Mississippi, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Jackson County$6,350,087,075
2Hinds County$2,464,847,670
3Harrison County$2,216,264,435
4Madison County$1,287,845,416
5Desoto County$1,159,133,473
6Rankin County$1,012,249,777
7Warren County$700,554,824
8Hancock County$698,721,741
9Lowndes County$680,186,969
10Lauderdale County$632,381,783

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

Forrest County, Mississippi: $625.9 million (FY2025)