Where federal tax dollars land around CENTENNIAL
Federal contracts, grants and other awards with work performed in the county containing CENTENNIAL, CO — 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.
$4.4B in federal awards was spent in Arapahoe County.
Federal awards, FY 2025: $4.4B — $6,681 per county resident
Federal awards in Arapahoe County, by fiscal year
- 2016: 4059142059
- 2017: 5406420930
- 2018: 4680453430
- 2019: 4687336459
- 2020: 6643334680
- 2021: 6182262475
- 2022: 5317441268
- 2023: 4822847090
- 2024: 5254156216
- 2025: 4380912396
Biggest awarding agencies
- Social Security Administration: 2526496534
- Department of Defense: 1350731034
- Department of Veterans Affairs: 385299337
- Department of Housing and Urban Development: 77013777
- Department of Health and Human Services: 69409509
- Department of Education: 59692475
Largest recipients
- MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS: 2905354112
- UNITED LAUNCH SERVICES, LLC: 496992874
- SIERRA NEVADA COMPANY, LLC: 343927178
- RAYTHEON COMPANY: 298450420
- TTEC GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS LLC: 64229043
- ICR, INC.: 63307944
What it means
Social Security Administration accounts for the largest share — $2.5B of the $4.4B total.
That works out to about $6,681 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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