Where federal tax dollars land around CONWAY
Federal contracts, grants and other awards with work performed in the county containing CONWAY, 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.
$749.5M in federal awards was spent in Faulkner County.
Federal awards, FY 2025: $749.5M — $5,948 per county resident
Federal awards in Faulkner County, by fiscal year
- 2016: 380231478
- 2017: 456033706
- 2018: 480573879
- 2019: 522436245
- 2020: 724291333
- 2021: 724722990
- 2022: 600949395
- 2023: 649478150
- 2024: 695533952
- 2025: 749516264
Biggest awarding agencies
- Social Security Administration: 573972772
- Department of Veterans Affairs: 100991102
- Department of Education: 33697331
- Railroad Retirement Board: 16780237
- Department of Transportation: 7217823
- Department of Housing and Urban Development: 4983760
Largest recipients
- MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS: 689464991
- UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: 30046433
- CITY OF CONWAY: 5142125
- REDACTED DUE TO PII: 4802486
- HENDRIX COLLEGE: 3985005
- HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF CONWAY: 3932705
What it means
Social Security Administration accounts for the largest share — $574.0M of the $749.5M total.
That works out to about $5,948 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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