Louisiana
Federal agencies obligated $55.7 billion for work performed in Louisiana in fiscal year 2026, ranking 28 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $55,696,307,751
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 28 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $12,113.84
- Divided by 4,597,740 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $55,696,307,751 divided by 4,597,740, 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 Louisiana 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 | $20,402,529,430 | 36.6% |
| 2 | Social Security Administration | $19,169,305,549 | 34.4% |
| 3 | Department of Homeland Security | $3,570,010,633 | 6.4% |
| 4 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $3,173,033,031 | 5.7% |
| 5 | Department of Agriculture | $2,666,513,089 | 4.8% |
| 6 | Department of Defense | $2,071,009,971 | 3.7% |
| 7 | Department of Education | $1,316,499,446 | 2.4% |
| 8 | Department of Transportation | $1,192,778,735 | 2.1% |
| 9 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $830,381,212 | 1.5% |
| 10 | Department of Energy | $379,950,683 | 0.7% |
| 11 | Railroad Retirement Board | $155,417,742 | 0.3% |
| 12 | Department of the Interior | $109,927,898 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Federal Communications Commission | $106,094,798 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Department of Commerce | $90,888,805 | 0.2% |
| 15 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $88,208,807 | 0.2% |
The 15 largest of 37 agencies with obligations here. Louisiana accounts for 1.2% 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