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Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Plymouth County, Massachusetts has $4.3 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 170 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 6 of 14 in Massachusetts.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
25023

The record

Reported figures for Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 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.$4,278,717,066USD
Rank among counties · FY2025170 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 Massachusetts · FY20256 of 14by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.530,819people
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.$8,061USD per resident

By fiscal year

Plymouth County, Massachusetts: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$4,837,590,223
FY2023$3,809,424,779
FY2024$3,969,252,185
FY2025$4,278,717,066
FY2026$4,271,971,432

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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Plymouth County, Massachusetts: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$4,038,047,847
Contracts$149,332,780
Grants$97,801,434
Insurance$1,332,395
Loans$751,771
Other-$8,549,160

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $4.3 billion, against $4.3 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in Massachusetts

counties in Massachusetts, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Middlesex County$25,804,666,317
2Suffolk County$12,513,914,926
3Essex County$11,216,736,463
4Worcester County$6,005,615,807
5Norfolk County$5,789,120,953
7Bristol County$3,780,421,507
8Hampden County$3,482,472,748
9Barnstable County$2,816,764,621
10Berkshire County$1,537,994,416
11Hampshire County$1,325,054,034

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