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Ward County, North Dakota

Ward County, North Dakota has $571.1 million of federal award obligations recorded in this county in fiscal year 2025, which ranks 806 of 3,232 counties with a figure in FY2025, and 4 of 53 in North Dakota.

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Identifiers

County FIPS
38101

The record

Reported figures for Ward County, North Dakota, 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.$571,090,912USD
Rank among counties · FY2025806 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 North Dakota · FY20254 of 53by obligations
Residents · FY2025The publisher’s own denominator, returned with the geography it belongs to.69,919people
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.$8,168USD per resident

By fiscal year

Ward County, North Dakota: federal award obligations recorded in this county, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$551,754,263
FY2023$567,349,216
FY2024$437,069,632
FY2025$571,090,912
FY2026$452,405,581

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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Ward County, North Dakota: FY2025 obligations by award type
Award typeObligated
Direct payments$405,216,951
Contracts$118,771,417
Grants$45,023,587
Other$1,100,186
Loans$734,353
Insurance$244,418

Each award type was a separate request to the publisher rather than a division of one total. They sum to $571.1 million, against $571.1 million for all award types together.

Other counties in North Dakota

counties in North Dakota, FY2025
RankcountyObligated
1Cass County$89,293,684,746
2Burleigh County$1,543,194,999
3Grand Forks County$974,038,473
5Stutsman County$252,242,524
6Morton County$246,455,122
7Rolette County$203,660,915
8Williams County$201,212,184
9Stark County$190,058,057
10Richland County$168,423,648
11Sioux County$148,465,172

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

Ward County, North Dakota: $571.1 million (FY2025)