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Pottawattamie County, Iowa

Pottawattamie County, Iowa has $671.9 million of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 712 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 10 of 99 in Iowa.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
19155

The record

Reported figures for Pottawattamie County, Iowa, 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.$671,924,913USD
Rank among counties · FY2025712 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 Iowa · FY202510 of 99by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.93,667people
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.$7,174USD per resident

By fiscal year

Pottawattamie County, Iowa: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$668,066,148
FY2023$634,621,598
FY2024$650,339,208
FY2025$671,924,913
FY2026$582,738,412

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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Pottawattamie County, Iowa: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$645,795,045
Grants$23,632,297
Other$1,377,596
Insurance$580,971
Contracts$516,131
Loans$22,874

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $671.9 million, against $671.9 million for all award types together.

Other counties in Iowa

counties in Iowa, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Polk County$4,289,132,514
2Linn County$3,301,381,070
3Des Moines County$1,272,409,618
4Scott County$1,132,666,646
5Johnson County$1,123,889,876
6Black Hawk County$923,038,209
7Story County$813,191,248
8Dubuque County$780,386,046
9Woodbury County$705,287,175
11Dallas County$502,801,810

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