Virginia
Federal agencies obligated $177.3 billion for work performed in Virginia in fiscal year 2026, ranking 8 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $177,279,805,948
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 8 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $20,119.84
- Divided by 8,811,195 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $177,279,805,948 divided by 8,811,195, 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 Virginia 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 Veterans Affairs | $42,661,673,173 | 24.1% |
| 2 | Social Security Administration | $36,903,494,243 | 20.8% |
| 3 | Department of Defense | $36,750,724,164 | 20.7% |
| 4 | Department of Health and Human Services | $25,499,272,051 | 14.4% |
| 5 | Department of Homeland Security | $7,992,239,270 | 4.5% |
| 6 | General Services Administration | $5,697,118,458 | 3.2% |
| 7 | Department of Agriculture | $3,368,505,036 | 1.9% |
| 8 | Department of Transportation | $3,160,543,256 | 1.8% |
| 9 | Department of Education | $2,832,288,132 | 1.6% |
| 10 | Department of Justice | $2,716,066,113 | 1.5% |
| 11 | Department of State | $1,859,259,528 | 1.0% |
| 12 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $1,299,538,732 | 0.7% |
| 13 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $1,295,205,492 | 0.7% |
| 14 | Department of Commerce | $989,244,558 | 0.6% |
| 15 | Department of the Interior | $943,241,473 | 0.5% |
The 15 largest of 62 agencies with obligations here. Virginia accounts for 3.8% 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