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Jefferson County, Colorado

Jefferson County, Colorado has $6.3 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 101 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 3 of 64 in Colorado.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
08059

The record

Reported figures for Jefferson County, Colorado, 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.$6,297,114,722USD
Rank among counties · FY2025101 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.0.2%percent
Rank within Colorado · FY20253 of 64by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.582,910people
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.$10,803USD per resident

By fiscal year

Jefferson County, Colorado: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$5,437,031,105
FY2023$6,169,242,694
FY2024$5,884,291,650
FY2025$6,297,114,722
FY2026$5,134,470,060

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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Jefferson County, Colorado: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$3,236,622,604
Contracts$2,738,352,874
Grants$317,493,056
Other$2,804,132
Insurance$1,364,761
Loans$477,296

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $6.3 billion, against $6.3 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in Colorado

counties in Colorado, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1El Paso County$9,254,007,705
2Denver County$7,591,655,440
4Douglas County$5,221,810,192
5Arapahoe County$4,379,784,761
6Adams County$4,271,668,085
7Boulder County$3,232,879,409
8Larimer County$3,089,753,179
9Weld County$1,888,844,085
10Pueblo County$1,517,172,493
11Mesa County$1,297,957,692

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

Jefferson County, Colorado: $6.3 billion (FY2025)