Mississippi
Federal agencies obligated $33.5 billion for work performed in Mississippi in fiscal year 2026, ranking 34 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $33,498,649,207
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 34 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $11,382.31
- Divided by 2,943,045 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $33,498,649,207 divided by 2,943,045, 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 Mississippi 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 | $13,484,107,954 | 40.3% |
| 2 | Department of Health and Human Services | $7,500,161,065 | 22.4% |
| 3 | Department of Defense | $5,054,265,939 | 15.1% |
| 4 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $2,428,219,241 | 7.2% |
| 5 | Department of Agriculture | $1,346,024,192 | 4.0% |
| 6 | Department of Education | $889,733,369 | 2.7% |
| 7 | Department of Transportation | $648,066,407 | 1.9% |
| 8 | Department of Homeland Security | $618,756,609 | 1.8% |
| 9 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $411,300,555 | 1.2% |
| 10 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $313,892,825 | 0.9% |
| 11 | Federal Communications Commission | $145,134,813 | 0.4% |
| 12 | Department of the Interior | $112,105,209 | 0.3% |
| 13 | Railroad Retirement Board | $107,171,200 | 0.3% |
| 14 | Environmental Protection Agency | $101,088,838 | 0.3% |
| 15 | Department of Commerce | $81,381,779 | 0.2% |
The 15 largest of 36 agencies with obligations here. Mississippi accounts for 0.7% 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