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Kent County, Michigan

Kent County, Michigan has $7.2 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 89 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 5 of 83 in Michigan.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
26081

The record

Reported figures for Kent County, Michigan, 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.$7,196,647,420USD
Rank among counties · FY202589 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 Michigan · FY20255 of 83by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.657,974people
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.$10,938USD per resident

By fiscal year

Kent County, Michigan: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$5,828,252,475
FY2023$6,222,869,678
FY2024$6,483,020,573
FY2025$7,196,647,420
FY2026$7,105,620,939

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, Michigan: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$6,817,172,335
Contracts$198,807,922
Grants$184,187,727
Other$2,533,860
Insurance$1,048,359
Loans-$7,102,783

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $7.2 billion, against $7.2 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in Michigan

counties in Michigan, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Wayne County$22,588,608,966
2Oakland County$10,878,798,378
3Macomb County$7,654,416,341
4Ingham County$7,383,057,221
6Washtenaw County$3,279,455,421
7Genesee County$3,002,556,482
8Ottawa County$1,840,893,556
9Kalamazoo County$1,709,634,910
10Muskegon County$1,665,355,407
11Livingston County$1,524,835,277

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

Kent County, Michigan: $7.2 billion (FY2025)