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Rutherford County, Tennessee

Rutherford County, Tennessee has $1.8 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 332 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 8 of 95 in Tennessee.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
47149

The record

Reported figures for Rutherford County, Tennessee, 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.$1,805,756,936USD
Rank among counties · FY2025332 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 Tennessee · FY20258 of 95by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.341,486people
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.$5,288USD per resident

By fiscal year

Rutherford County, Tennessee: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$1,518,246,515
FY2023$1,588,277,921
FY2024$1,719,969,539
FY2025$1,805,756,936
FY2026$1,784,488,917

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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Rutherford County, Tennessee: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$1,629,522,075
Contracts$125,523,581
Grants$54,240,991
Other$2,084,459
Insurance$445,034
Loans-$6,059,204

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $1.8 billion, against $1.8 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in Tennessee

counties in Tennessee, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Davidson County$46,259,420,511
2Anderson County$7,002,194,589
3Shelby County$6,430,581,736
4Hamilton County$6,353,945,734
5Knox County$3,800,657,474
6Montgomery County$2,020,871,507
7Sullivan County$1,819,211,606
9Williamson County$1,734,482,672
10Sumner County$1,349,201,082
11Washington County$1,249,664,746

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