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Franklin County, Kentucky

Franklin County, Kentucky has $1.7 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 349 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 3 of 120 in Kentucky.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
21073

The record

Reported figures for Franklin County, Kentucky, 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.$1,721,179,803USD
Rank among counties · FY2025349 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 Kentucky · FY20253 of 120by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.51,541people
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.$33,394USD per resident

By fiscal year

Franklin County, Kentucky: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$1,692,198,406
FY2023$1,684,545,091
FY2024$3,171,373,698
FY2025$1,721,179,803
FY2026$1,620,728,109

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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Franklin County, Kentucky: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Grants$1,191,653,495
Direct payments$510,356,242
Contracts$16,664,837
Insurance$11,574,385
Other$485,715
Loans-$9,554,871

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $1.7 billion, against $1.7 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in Kentucky

counties in Kentucky, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Jefferson County$122,131,299,359
2Fayette County$3,111,754,106
4Hardin County$1,306,275,297
5Kenton County$1,094,872,715
6Madison County$982,898,785
7Clark County$898,904,654
8Boone County$879,514,759
9Warren County$748,643,240
10Daviess County$728,404,225
11Christian County$617,824,034

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

Franklin County, Kentucky: $1.7 billion (FY2025)