Where federal tax dollars land around Duluth
Federal contracts, grants and other awards with work performed in the county containing Duluth, MN — 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.
$1.6B in federal awards was spent in St. Louis County.
Federal awards, FY 2025: $1.6B — $8,223 per county resident
Biggest awarding agencies
- Social Security Administration: 1194318424
- Department of Veterans Affairs: 136528234
- Department of Transportation: 81186523
- Department of Housing and Urban Development: 55664404
- Railroad Retirement Board: 43650163
- Department of Health and Human Services: 35208448
Largest recipients
- MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS: 1371037552
- MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: 48984852
- DULUTH, CITY OF: 23811798
- HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA: 18949543
- RURAL HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER: 15894125
- MINNESOTA, STATE OF: 11208961
What it means
Social Security Administration accounts for the largest share — $1.2B of the $1.6B total.
That works out to about $8,223 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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