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Virginia Beach City, Virginia

Virginia Beach City, Virginia has $11.7 billion of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 55 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 4 of 133 in Virginia.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
51810

The record

Reported figures for Virginia Beach City, Virginia, 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.$11,656,690,661USD
Rank among counties · FY202555 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.0.3%percent
Rank within Virginia · FY20254 of 133by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.459,470people
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.$25,370USD per resident

By fiscal year

Virginia Beach City, Virginia: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$7,587,392,750
FY2023$9,401,670,471
FY2024$10,272,193,884
FY2025$11,656,690,661
FY2026$9,242,843,029

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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Virginia Beach City, Virginia: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Contracts$7,001,400,048
Direct payments$4,590,999,060
Grants$63,878,441
Other$2,581,833
Insurance$2,096,570
Loans-$4,265,291

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $11.7 billion, against $11.7 billion for all award types together.

Other counties in Virginia

counties in Virginia, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Fairfax County$47,834,674,876
2Spotsylvania County$31,890,506,579
3Arlington County$22,759,013,335
5Newport News City$6,285,092,039
6Prince William County$5,470,468,925
7Loudoun County$5,329,017,163
8Norfolk City$5,056,123,081
9Alexandria City$3,950,035,069
10Richmond City$2,827,133,102
11Henrico County$2,685,571,465

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

Virginia Beach City, Virginia: $11.7 billion (FY2025)