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Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky has $242.3 million of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 1,463 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 34 of 120 in Kentucky.

Identifiers

County FIPS
21177

The record

Reported figures for Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, 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.$242,325,946USD
Rank among counties · FY20251,463 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 Kentucky · FY202534 of 120by obligations
Rank among counties by federal contracts · FY2025$28,747,788 of federal contract obligations in FY2025.756 of 2,787by federal contract obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.30,928people
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.$7,835USD per resident

By fiscal year

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$152.4 million
FY2023$247.1 million
FY2024$224.0 million
FY2025$242.3 million
FY2026$211.5 million

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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Muhlenberg County, Kentucky: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$205.0 million
Contracts$28.7 million
Grants$7.9 million
Loans$289.9 thousand
Other$282.5 thousand
Insurance$29,710

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $242.3 million, against $242.3 million for all award types together.

Other counties in Kentucky

counties in Kentucky, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Jefferson County$122.1 billion
2Fayette County$3.1 billion
3Franklin County$1.7 billion
4Hardin County$1.3 billion
5Kenton County$1.1 billion
6Madison County$982.9 million
7Clark County$898.9 million
8Boone County$879.5 million
9Warren County$748.6 million
10Daviess County$728.4 million

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