Delaware
Federal agencies obligated $11.2 billion for work performed in Delaware in fiscal year 2026, ranking 49 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $11,189,407,353
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 49 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $10,637.16
- Divided by 1,051,917 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $11,189,407,353 divided by 1,051,917, 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 Delaware 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 | $5,693,428,715 | 50.9% |
| 2 | Department of Health and Human Services | $3,347,286,560 | 29.9% |
| 3 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $667,452,138 | 6.0% |
| 4 | Department of Agriculture | $390,239,484 | 3.5% |
| 5 | Department of Transportation | $340,448,033 | 3.0% |
| 6 | Department of Education | $241,226,836 | 2.2% |
| 7 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $163,262,644 | 1.5% |
| 8 | Department of Defense | $131,914,961 | 1.2% |
| 9 | Railroad Retirement Board | $66,977,503 | 0.6% |
| 10 | National Science Foundation | $41,250,795 | 0.4% |
| 11 | Environmental Protection Agency | $19,671,743 | 0.2% |
| 12 | Department of Labor | $17,988,264 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Department of Justice | $14,806,267 | 0.1% |
| 14 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $13,731,660 | 0.1% |
| 15 | General Services Administration | $8,520,330 | 0.1% |
The 15 largest of 32 agencies with obligations here. Delaware accounts for 0.2% 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
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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