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Madison County, Alabama

Madison County, Alabama has $15.6 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 38 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 1 of 67 in Alabama.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
01089

The record

Reported figures for Madison County, Alabama, 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.$15,612,134,794USD
Rank among counties · FY202538 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.0.4%percent
Rank within Alabama · FY20251 of 67by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.388,153people
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.$40,222USD per resident

By fiscal year

Madison County, Alabama: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$11,491,702,487
FY2023$13,103,863,110
FY2024$14,038,824,125
FY2025$15,612,134,794
FY2026$13,418,867,030

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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Madison County, Alabama: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Contracts$12,777,647,300
Direct payments$2,638,353,656
Grants$194,368,821
Other$1,224,872
Insurance$657,133
Loans-$116,987

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $15.6 billion, against $15.6 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in Alabama

counties in Alabama, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
2Jefferson County$8,061,447,639
3Montgomery County$5,181,597,856
4Mobile County$4,825,364,485
5Baldwin County$2,226,111,688
6Shelby County$1,586,854,959
7Tuscaloosa County$1,552,847,133
8Dale County$1,413,737,968
9Calhoun County$1,195,126,643
10Lee County$1,165,237,051
11Morgan County$879,473,931

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

Madison County, Alabama: $15.6 billion (FY2025)