Where federal tax dollars land around Auburn
Federal contracts, grants and other awards with work performed in the county containing Auburn, 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.
$1.2B in federal awards was spent in Lee County.
Federal awards, FY 2025: $1.2B — $6,520 per county resident
Federal awards in Lee County, by fiscal year
- 2016: 507398277
- 2017: 661393762
- 2018: 696062342
- 2019: 748690359
- 2020: 1137069145
- 2021: 1180169927
- 2022: 985474561
- 2023: 1029972878
- 2024: 1052714086
- 2025: 1158385812
Biggest awarding agencies
- Social Security Administration: 727713431
- Department of Veterans Affairs: 224164167
- Department of Defense: 36550874
- Department of Agriculture: 31250860
- Department of Education: 30909306
- National Science Foundation: 27035489
Largest recipients
- MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS: 952781515
- AUBURN UNIVERSITY: 144343072
- MDT ARMOR CORP: 17605599
- AUBURN HOUSING AUTHORITY: 6462418
- ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: 6081399
- ALABAMA COUNCIL ON HUMAN RELATIONS INC.: 5489444
What it means
Social Security Administration accounts for the largest share — $727.7M of the $1.2B total.
That works out to about $6,520 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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