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Kent County, Delaware

Kent County, Delaware has $1.8 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 329 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 3 of 3 in Delaware.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
10001

The record

Reported figures for Kent County, Delaware, 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.$1,821,481,433USD
Rank among counties · FY2025329 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 Delaware · FY20253 of 3by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.181,851people
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.$10,016USD per resident

By fiscal year

Kent County, Delaware: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$1,471,932,520
FY2023$1,578,932,167
FY2024$1,784,260,083
FY2025$1,821,481,433
FY2026$1,596,465,423

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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Kent County, Delaware: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$1,375,677,521
Grants$277,612,871
Contracts$162,244,280
Other$4,204,846
Loans$1,411,322
Insurance$330,592

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $1.8 billion, against $1.8 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in Delaware

counties in Delaware, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1New Castle County$4,286,694,750
2Sussex County$2,782,566,208

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

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