Tennessee
Federal agencies obligated $112.3 billion for work performed in Tennessee in fiscal year 2026, ranking 17 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $112,349,182,951
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 17 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $15,544.14
- Divided by 7,227,750 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $112,349,182,951 divided by 7,227,750, 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 Tennessee 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 | $55,506,709,523 | 49.4% |
| 2 | Social Security Administration | $31,846,874,373 | 28.3% |
| 3 | Department of Energy | $7,484,390,171 | 6.7% |
| 4 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $6,205,024,919 | 5.5% |
| 5 | Department of Agriculture | $2,548,999,230 | 2.3% |
| 6 | Department of Education | $1,861,095,220 | 1.7% |
| 7 | Department of Defense | $1,789,190,865 | 1.6% |
| 8 | Department of Transportation | $1,462,579,617 | 1.3% |
| 9 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $1,077,273,852 | 1.0% |
| 10 | Department of Homeland Security | $1,021,485,741 | 0.9% |
| 11 | Department of Justice | $741,609,547 | 0.7% |
| 12 | Railroad Retirement Board | $249,710,373 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Environmental Protection Agency | $152,658,166 | 0.1% |
| 14 | General Services Administration | $92,036,817 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Department of Labor | $68,142,408 | 0.1% |
The 15 largest of 38 agencies with obligations here. Tennessee 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
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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