North Carolina
Federal agencies obligated $113.4 billion for work performed in North Carolina in fiscal year 2026, ranking 15 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $113,377,407,895
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 15 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $10,264.09
- Divided by 11,046,024 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $113,377,407,895 divided by 11,046,024, 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 North Carolina 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 | $48,689,674,784 | 42.9% |
| 2 | Department of Health and Human Services | $35,293,599,264 | 31.1% |
| 3 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $10,805,742,068 | 9.5% |
| 4 | Department of Agriculture | $4,355,549,287 | 3.8% |
| 5 | Department of Transportation | $4,153,463,220 | 3.7% |
| 6 | Department of Homeland Security | $2,450,667,532 | 2.2% |
| 7 | Department of Education | $2,348,878,128 | 2.1% |
| 8 | Department of Defense | $2,051,281,134 | 1.8% |
| 9 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $1,051,971,380 | 0.9% |
| 10 | General Services Administration | $699,339,233 | 0.6% |
| 11 | Environmental Protection Agency | $245,196,987 | 0.2% |
| 12 | Railroad Retirement Board | $200,284,286 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Federal Communications Commission | $194,946,279 | 0.2% |
| 14 | National Science Foundation | $190,787,448 | 0.2% |
| 15 | Department of Justice | $142,490,207 | 0.1% |
The 15 largest of 47 agencies with obligations here. North Carolina accounts for 2.4% 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