Kentucky
Federal agencies obligated $182.4 billion for work performed in Kentucky in fiscal year 2026, ranking 7 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $182,409,052,019
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 7 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $39,754.63
- Divided by 4,588,372 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $182,409,052,019 divided by 4,588,372, 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 Kentucky 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 | Department of Health and Human Services | $144,154,697,112 | 79.0% |
| 2 | Social Security Administration | $20,514,062,362 | 11.2% |
| 3 | Department of Defense | $7,852,846,235 | 4.3% |
| 4 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $2,891,920,133 | 1.6% |
| 5 | Department of Agriculture | $2,157,621,366 | 1.2% |
| 6 | Department of Education | $1,227,457,530 | 0.7% |
| 7 | Department of Transportation | $1,107,265,420 | 0.6% |
| 8 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $585,797,368 | 0.3% |
| 9 | Department of Homeland Security | $530,212,035 | 0.3% |
| 10 | Railroad Retirement Board | $261,679,120 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Department of the Treasury | $205,812,658 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Department of Justice | $167,926,689 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Federal Communications Commission | $148,461,964 | 0.1% |
| 14 | Department of the Interior | $119,683,489 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Department of Commerce | $96,463,862 | 0.1% |
The 15 largest of 40 agencies with obligations here. Kentucky accounts for 3.9% 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