Where federal tax dollars land around DURANGO
Federal contracts, grants and other awards with work performed in the county containing DURANGO, 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.
$466.5M in federal awards was spent in La Plata County.
Federal awards, FY 2025: $466.5M — $8,316 per county resident
Federal awards in La Plata County, by fiscal year
- 2016: 189637094
- 2017: 223255243
- 2018: 229022042
- 2019: 261870974
- 2020: 430680910
- 2021: 398786166
- 2022: 330106486
- 2023: 412643709
- 2024: 387639800
- 2025: 466451182
Biggest awarding agencies
- Social Security Administration: 301596184
- Department of Energy: 50917461
- Department of Veterans Affairs: 29995927
- Department of Agriculture: 26208066
- Department of the Interior: 14516563
- Department of Education: 12317749
Largest recipients
- MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS: 329997718
- TRIBAL ENERGY CONSORTIUM: 50000000
- FORT LEWIS COLLEGE: 13132383
- SOUTHERN UTE INDIAN TRIBE: 9521239
- PRECISION, LLC: 6317112
- SOUTHWEST COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, INC: 5086461
What it means
Social Security Administration accounts for the largest share — $301.6M of the $466.5M total.
That works out to about $8,316 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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