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Santa Cruz County, California

Santa Cruz County, California has $2.0 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 315 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 25 of 58 in California.

Identifiers

County FIPS
06087

The record

Reported figures for Santa Cruz County, California, 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.$2.0 billionUSD
Rank among counties · FY2025315 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 California · FY202525 of 58by obligations
Rank among counties by federal contracts · FY2025$87,653,539 of federal contract obligations in FY2025.455 of 2,787by federal contract obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.270,861people
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.$7,270USD per resident

By fiscal year

Santa Cruz County, California: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$1.5 billion
FY2023$1.7 billion
FY2024$1.8 billion
FY2025$2.0 billion
FY2026$1.7 billion

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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Santa Cruz County, California: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$1.7 billion
Grants$213.0 million
Contracts$87.7 million
Other$1.5 million
Loans$707.8 thousand
Insurance$381.8 thousand

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $2.0 billion, against $2.0 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in California

counties in California, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Los Angeles County$80.1 billion
2Alameda County$42.5 billion
3San Diego County$35.4 billion
4Sacramento County$23.4 billion
5Orange County$23.4 billion
6Riverside County$14.9 billion
7Santa Clara County$13.6 billion
8San Bernardino County$12.6 billion
9San Francisco County$8.5 billion
10Contra Costa County$7.2 billion

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