West Virginia
Federal agencies obligated $21.9 billion for work performed in West Virginia in fiscal year 2026, ranking 41 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $21,931,315,253
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 41 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $12,390.72
- Divided by 1,769,979 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $21,931,315,253 divided by 1,769,979, 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 West 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 | Social Security Administration | $9,329,253,270 | 42.5% |
| 2 | Department of Health and Human Services | $6,698,616,124 | 30.5% |
| 3 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $1,717,220,158 | 7.8% |
| 4 | Department of Agriculture | $839,849,134 | 3.8% |
| 5 | Department of Transportation | $761,828,477 | 3.5% |
| 6 | Department of Education | $488,253,562 | 2.2% |
| 7 | Department of Defense | $384,916,813 | 1.8% |
| 8 | Department of Energy | $341,072,873 | 1.6% |
| 9 | Department of Justice | $227,398,110 | 1.0% |
| 10 | Department of the Interior | $213,614,474 | 1.0% |
| 11 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $208,618,888 | 1.0% |
| 12 | Department of Homeland Security | $180,122,584 | 0.8% |
| 13 | Railroad Retirement Board | $149,811,951 | 0.7% |
| 14 | Department of the Treasury | $137,635,195 | 0.6% |
| 15 | Environmental Protection Agency | $62,621,443 | 0.3% |
The 15 largest of 34 agencies with obligations here. West Virginia accounts for 0.5% 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
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