Where federal tax dollars land around ARKADELPHIA
Federal contracts, grants and other awards with work performed in the county containing ARKADELPHIA, AR — 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.
$170.3M in federal awards was spent in Clark County.
Federal awards, FY 2025: $170.3M — $7,967 per county resident
Federal awards in Clark County, by fiscal year
- 2016: 94399658
- 2017: 119591010
- 2018: 119065361
- 2019: 130367319
- 2020: 155456358
- 2021: 157830305
- 2022: 153503750
- 2023: 152791421
- 2024: 136812222
- 2025: 170319464
Biggest awarding agencies
- Social Security Administration: 111062144
- Department of Transportation: 25475091
- Department of Veterans Affairs: 13742914
- Department of Education: 12972710
- Railroad Retirement Board: 2346323
- Department of Agriculture: 2075869
Largest recipients
- MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS: 127181742
- ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: 25441238
- HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY: 8737214
- OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: 4671405
- REDACTED DUE TO PII: 1240914
- HUNEYCUTT FARMS PARTNERSHIP: 440167
What it means
Social Security Administration accounts for the largest share — $111.1M of the $170.3M total.
That works out to about $7,967 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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