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Lee County, North Carolina

Lee County, North Carolina has $532.3 million of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 843 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 43 of 100 in North Carolina.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
37105

The record

Reported figures for Lee County, North Carolina, 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.$532,269,610USD
Rank among counties · FY2025843 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 North Carolina · FY202543 of 100by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.63,285people
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.$8,411USD per resident

By fiscal year

Lee County, North Carolina: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$415,075,053
FY2023$452,275,128
FY2024$487,393,799
FY2025$532,269,610
FY2026$509,896,898

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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Lee County, North Carolina: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$521,076,247
Grants$7,523,128
Contracts$2,241,115
Other$1,521,487
Insurance$265,392
Loans-$357,759

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $532.3 million, against $532.3 million for all award types together.

Other counties in North Carolina

counties in North Carolina, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Wake County$12,925,218,164
2Durham County$6,129,271,056
3Mecklenburg County$5,845,277,723
4Cumberland County$4,308,706,169
5Guilford County$4,102,091,058
6Buncombe County$3,615,822,892
7Forsyth County$2,850,865,709
8Onslow County$2,390,618,005
9Brunswick County$2,152,195,182
10New Hanover County$1,967,985,870

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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