North Dakota
Federal agencies obligated $86.4 billion for work performed in North Dakota in fiscal year 2026, ranking 24 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $86,361,824,555
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 24 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $108,417.39
- Divided by 796,568 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $86,361,824,555 divided by 796,568, 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 Dakota 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 | $80,245,938,868 | 92.9% |
| 2 | Social Security Administration | $2,976,227,400 | 3.4% |
| 3 | Department of Agriculture | $795,118,761 | 0.9% |
| 4 | Department of Transportation | $631,403,645 | 0.7% |
| 5 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $489,267,317 | 0.6% |
| 6 | Department of Defense | $289,277,677 | 0.3% |
| 7 | Department of Education | $257,515,573 | 0.3% |
| 8 | Department of the Interior | $167,609,147 | 0.2% |
| 9 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $110,752,024 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Department of Energy | $94,650,528 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Environmental Protection Agency | $88,336,496 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Railroad Retirement Board | $74,114,546 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Department of Homeland Security | $44,684,087 | 0.1% |
| 14 | National Science Foundation | $26,361,508 | 0.0% |
| 15 | General Services Administration | $17,969,600 | 0.0% |
The 15 largest of 32 agencies with obligations here. North Dakota accounts for 1.8% 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