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Fulton County, Georgia

Fulton County, Georgia has $12.2 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 52 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 1 of 159 in Georgia.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
13121

The record

Reported figures for Fulton County, Georgia, 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.$12,237,886,647USD
Rank among counties · FY202552 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.0.3%percent
Rank within Georgia · FY20251 of 159by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.1,066,710people
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.$11,473USD per resident

By fiscal year

Fulton County, Georgia: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$8,330,884,934
FY2023$8,584,176,217
FY2024$9,260,714,555
FY2025$12,237,886,647
FY2026$9,717,421,116

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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Fulton County, Georgia: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$5,902,340,964
Grants$5,022,285,281
Contracts$1,274,501,435
Insurance$21,062,059
Loans$14,398,166
Other$3,298,742

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $12.2 billion, against $12.2 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in Georgia

counties in Georgia, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
2Dekalb County$7,038,654,129
3Cobb County$6,821,728,066
4Gwinnett County$4,029,220,351
5Chatham County$2,608,734,286
6Houston County$2,569,591,337
7Richmond County$2,269,091,495
8Cherokee County$1,687,663,815
9Muscogee County$1,577,962,926
10Henry County$1,513,075,412
11Columbia County$1,382,940,550

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

Fulton County, Georgia: $12.2 billion (FY2025)