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Lea County, New Mexico

Lea County, New Mexico has $317.4 million of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 1,200 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 15 of 33 in New Mexico.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
35025

The record

Reported figures for Lea County, New Mexico, 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.$317,394,723USD
Rank among counties · FY20251,200 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 New Mexico · FY202515 of 33by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.74,455people
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.$4,263USD per resident

By fiscal year

Lea County, New Mexico: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$285,787,259
FY2023$258,639,623
FY2024$286,923,117
FY2025$317,394,723
FY2026$279,835,419

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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Lea County, New Mexico: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$267,255,647
Grants$47,933,851
Contracts$1,251,620
Other$830,990
Loans$107,317
Insurance$15,296

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $317.4 million, against $317.4 million for all award types together.

Other counties in New Mexico

counties in New Mexico, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Bernalillo County$12,086,630,983
2Los Alamos County$5,396,041,361
3Santa Fe County$2,567,198,117
4Doña Ana County$1,722,724,569
5Sandoval County$1,202,832,159
6San Juan County$1,024,586,280
7Mckinley County$756,726,565
8Otero County$651,675,394
9Valencia County$561,069,846
10Chaves County$449,281,389

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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