Colorado
Federal agencies obligated $61.1 billion for work performed in Colorado in fiscal year 2026, ranking 27 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $61,123,326,298
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 27 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $10,259.91
- Divided by 5,957,493 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $61,123,326,298 divided by 5,957,493, the 2024 resident population estimate from U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA). It is dollars of federally obligated work recorded in Colorado per resident. It is not federal money received by residents, and it is not a payment anyone receives.
Largest agencies
| Rank | Agency | Obligations | Share of state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Social Security Administration | $21,905,261,998 | 35.8% |
| 2 | Department of Health and Human Services | $15,823,126,531 | 25.9% |
| 3 | Department of Defense | $7,084,604,733 | 11.6% |
| 4 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $5,895,705,578 | 9.6% |
| 5 | Department of Agriculture | $2,592,507,970 | 4.2% |
| 6 | Department of Transportation | $1,575,682,008 | 2.6% |
| 7 | Department of Education | $1,224,725,632 | 2.0% |
| 8 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $1,038,238,097 | 1.7% |
| 9 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $916,245,856 | 1.5% |
| 10 | Department of Energy | $787,009,716 | 1.3% |
| 11 | General Services Administration | $445,829,446 | 0.7% |
| 12 | Department of Homeland Security | $443,775,878 | 0.7% |
| 13 | Department of the Interior | $378,176,506 | 0.6% |
| 14 | National Science Foundation | $306,880,259 | 0.5% |
| 15 | Railroad Retirement Board | $187,401,680 | 0.3% |
The 15 largest of 46 agencies with obligations here. Colorado accounts for 1.3% of the $4,725,719,515,020 that carries a place-of-performance state.
What this page cannot show
- Place of performance is the location the recipient reported. A contract recorded here may be performed, subcontracted, or spent elsewhere.
- These are obligations recorded in the period, not outlays and not money received by residents or by the state government.
- A per-resident figure divides work performed in a state by the people who live there. The two are not the same population, and a state with a large federal installation or contractor will rank high without its residents receiving that money.
Related
Nearby in the ranking
Largest agencies here
Sources
- USAspending API v2 — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved 2026-09-18apps/web/queries/spending/states_by_federal_awards.sql, apps/web/queries/spending/state_agencies.sql
- U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA) (population denominator) — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work, public domaintransforms/seeds/census_state_population.csv
Data retrieved