Where federal tax dollars land around Athens
Federal contracts, grants and other awards with work performed in the county containing Athens, AL — the yearly total, the biggest agencies and the largest recipients.
USAspending.gov API, federal awards by place of performance.
This story was assembled using AI and public data sources.
$792.8M in federal awards was spent in Limestone County.
Federal awards, FY 2025: $792.8M — $7,370 per county resident
Federal awards in Limestone County, by fiscal year
- 2016: 359912183
- 2017: 481695087
- 2018: 461721365
- 2019: 468201203
- 2020: 661752149
- 2021: 716432929
- 2022: 629900405
- 2023: 709835097
- 2024: 733346894
- 2025: 792823910
Biggest awarding agencies
- Social Security Administration: 523292388
- Department of Veterans Affairs: 177941830
- Department of Education: 27801771
- Department of Agriculture: 21685019
- Department of Transportation: 20221417
- Department of Defense: 14305404
Largest recipients
- MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS: 701449445
- JC CALHOUN STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE INC: 19548200
- ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: 17665146
- REDACTED DUE TO PII: 15162914
- ATHENS STATE UNIVERSITY: 8253571
- BONEAL, INCORPORATED: 7104341
What it means
Social Security Administration accounts for the largest share — $523.3M of the $792.8M total.
That works out to about $7,370 for every resident of the county, counting contracts, grants, loans and direct payments.
Place of performance means the work happened here — the money may be awarded to a company or agency headquartered elsewhere, and multi-year awards can land in a single year's total.
Sources
- U.S. Census Bureau — American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates — Population, income, housing, education, commuting and poverty figures
- Census Bureau API — ACS Detailed Tables — The endpoint these pages are generated from
- data.census.gov — Look up the same tables for any place yourself
- ACS accuracy statement — Estimates carry margins of error; small places vary the most
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