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How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

by Jennifer LaFleur, Dan Nguyen, and Joe Kokenge

Once again, we’ve taken all the data used on the government’s stimulus Web site, Recovery.gov, spiffed it up and added thousands of other recovery spending records — the law doesn't require all recipients to report to Recovery.gov. The result: the most comprehensive publicly available analysis of stimulus spending that we know of. Type in your county or click on your state to find local projects, and check out how per capita spending compares with poverty, income and unemployment in your area.

You can also get the data files from us directly.

Check the chart below to compare unemployment and per capita spending among counties. Click on your county to find projects in your area. Data last updated on January 2011. 

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	U.S.	Florida
Population	307,006,550	18,537,969
Total recovery funding	$429,936,120,742	$19,795,900,572
Funding per Capita	$1,400	$1,068
Unemployment 11/2008	6.9	7.5
11/2009	+3.1 10.0	+3.9 11.4
11/2010	-0.2 9.8	+0.8 12.2
Median Household Income	$50,007	$46,602
Poverty Rate	13.3%	12.6%

Funding by Federal Agency and Department

Education Department	$6,124,420,533
Health and Human Services, Department of	$4,483,222,681
Transportation Department	$1,842,704,636
Labor Department	$1,608,388,351
Agriculture Department	$1,594,346,181
Small Business Administration	$939,356,402
Energy Department	$935,420,226
Housing and Urban Development Department	$770,046,785
Justice Department	$265,482,893
Environmental Protection Agency	$252,271,782
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers	$236,499,810

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This site was updated in January 2011. It includes recipient-reported data through Sept. 30, 2010, which was released in October.

To obtain a copy of data for your state through Sept. 30, 2011, click here.

Counties

Note: For some programs where states do to note report where money will be distributed across the state, we do not have the allocation for individual counties. Those programs include: Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Those amounts are included in the totals for where the state agency receiving that money is located.

	Stimulus Funds		Unemployment Rate
Name	Total	Per Capita	2008	2009	2010
Alachua	$211,191,430	$867	4.9	8.2	8.6
Baker	$5,008,422	$190	6.5	11.3	11.7
Bay	$94,653,378	$574	7.3	10.5	11.6
Bradford	$7,673,781	$262	5.6	9.2	10.6
Brevard	$219,437,869	$409	7.9	11.7	12.6
Broward	$601,380,708	$340	6.5	10.2	10.8
Calhoun	$3,297,705	$239	5.8	9.6	10.4
Charlotte	$19,882,362	$127	9.4	12.8	12.9
Citrus	$24,605,804	$175	9.6	13.2	13.8
Clay	$186,855,871	$1,001	6.4	10.3	11.5
Collier	$123,897,657	$389	8.1	12.3	12.4
Columbia	$22,850,670	$330	6.4	11.2	11.3
DeSoto	$4,101,547	$116	8.1	11.4	12.5
Dixie	$1,335,387	$90	8.5	12.5	13.3
Duval	$439,025,144	$512	7.2	11.6	12.0
Escambia	$126,191,006	$416	7.2	10.9	11.5
Flagler	$36,928,075	$403	11.1	15.9	16.6
Franklin	$14,717,405	$1,305	5.6	8.8	9.7
Gadsden	$30,895,518	$651	7.1	9.9	11.0
Gilchrist	$5,605,351	$327	6.8	10.3	10.2
Glades	$3,026,233	$276	8.0	11.2	12.6
Gulf	$12,347,904	$784	7.1	10.9	11.1
Hamilton	$3,176,674	$218	9.2	12.3	12.0
Hardee	$13,990,006	$476	8.4	12.9	14.1
Hendry	$29,283,308	$740	12.3	15.9	17.9
Hernando	$45,782,664	$267	10.2	14.5	15.2
Highlands	$21,579,861	$219	8.7	12.2	13.4
Hillsborough	$683,988,218	$572	7.6	12.0	12.3
Holmes	$8,761,234	$459	5.9	8.7	9.4
Indian River	$28,083,643	$208	9.1	13.9	14.5
Jackson	$41,496,089	$815	5.9	8.1	9.2
Jefferson	$6,416,898	$458	5.7	8.9	10.0
Lafayette	$1,652,574	$208	5.6	8.6	9.5
Lake	$148,210,740	$475	7.9	12.4	12.5
Lee	$252,154,503	$430	9.6	13.4	13.3
Leon	$11,987,450,987	$45,114	5.1	8.0	8.7
Levy	$12,439,473	$318	8.9	12.8	13.2
Liberty	$2,784,778	$349	4.7	6.7	8.1
Madison	$10,503,468	$556	8.0	12.5	12.7
Manatee	$98,370,449	$309	8.4	12.6	12.6
Marion	$152,483,027	$464	9.8	14.2	14.6
Martin	$112,570,400	$805	8.2	12.5	12.5
Miami-Dade	$1,358,917,886	$543	7.3	10.5	13.0
Monroe	$82,358,846	$1,126	5.1	7.8	8.5
Nassau	$50,948,095	$722	6.5	10.8	11.6
Okaloosa	$95,371,640	$534	5.5	8.1	8.7
Okeechobee	$6,437,449	$160	10.0	13.3	14.5
Orange	$549,448,885	$506	7.3	11.6	11.9
Osceola	$46,871,784	$173	8.0	12.8	12.9
Palm Beach	$492,406,948	$385	7.7	11.8	12.3
Pasco	$110,074,825	$233	8.8	13.0	13.5
Pinellas	$286,096,207	$315	7.9	11.8	12.4
Polk	$188,233,281	$323	8.2	12.7	13.3
Putnam	$25,482,530	$350	9.0	13.2	14.1
St. Johns	$57,815,513	$308	6.0	9.6	10.2
St. Lucie	$63,171,188	$237	10.3	14.4	15.2
Santa Rosa	$51,729,577	$341	6.5	9.8	10.2
Sarasota	$98,448,123	$266	8.1	12.0	12.1
Seminole	$125,093,551	$303	6.8	10.8	11.0
Sumter	$21,457,538	$276	6.7	9.9	10.0
Suwannee	$21,932,685	$546	7.3	11.5	11.5
Taylor	$5,224,895	$244	7.9	11.7	12.5
Union	$2,000,341	$137	5.3	9.3	9.7
Volusia	$129,434,457	$261	8.0	12.2	12.8
Wakulla	$12,847,470	$392	5.5	8.0	8.7
Walton	$46,021,956	$835	5.6	8.3	8.9
Washington	$11,986,680	$501	7.8	11.3	12.8

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