Recovery Tracker

How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

New Jersey

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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 September 2012.

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U.S. New Jersey
Population 308,745,538 8,791,894
Total recovery funding $522,082,377,600 $11,908,597,600
Funding per Capita $1,691 $1,354
Unemployment
7/2008
6.2
5.8
7/2009
+3.6
9.8
+4.1
9.9
7/2010
-0.2
9.6
+0.2
10.1
7/2011
-0.6
9.0
-0.3
9.8
7/2012
-0.9
8.1
+0.3
10.1
Unemployment Rate, 7/08 – 7/12

Funding by Federal Agency and Department

Health and Human Services, Department of $3,275,494,407
Education, Department of $2,393,359,604
Employment and Training Administration $1,466,328,843
Transportation, Department of $1,164,584,947
Small Business Administration $678,354,098
Agriculture, Department of $657,064,188
Housing and Urban Development, Department of $443,601,717
Energy, Department of $404,699,879
Social Security Administration $364,803,515
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $266,346,204
Environmental Protection Agency $218,510,471
General Services Administration $140,100,022
Justice, Department of $109,631,154
Commerce, Department of $89,523,715
Interior, Department of $55,147,852
National Science Foundation $53,703,699
Army, Department of $47,123,465
Homeland Security, Department of $44,533,045
Department of Veterans Affairs $18,983,854
Department of the Air Force $7,539,973
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management $6,704,221
Air National Guard $3,600,000
Navy, Department of $2,906,202
Treasury, Department of $2,000,000
Independent Agencies $1,056,689
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities $966,900
State, Department of $921,688
National Aeronautics and Space Administration $846,296
Federal Communications Commission $485,668
Occupational Safety and Health Administration $20,495

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This site was updated in September 2012. It includes recipient-reported data through the second quarter of 2012, which was released in July 2012.

Important: This interactive database is not kept up-to-date and should be treated as a historical snapshot. As records may have changed since we stopped making updates, researchers and consultants wishing to use the data should check against original sources for accuracy before using any data published here.

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Counties

Note: For some programs where states do not 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 2009 2010 2011 2012
Atlantic $258,490,790 $941 12.1 12.3 12.7 12.6
Bergen $411,509,880 $454 9.0 9.0 8.7 8.9
Burlington $259,840,435 $579 9.3 9.9 9.5 9.8
Camden $515,517,525 $1,004 10.9 11.4 11.3 11.3
Cape May $146,935,136 $1,511 7.8 8.0 8.7 9.5
Cumberland $163,855,384 $1,043 13.2 13.8 14.0 14.3
Essex $1,362,368,974 $1,737 11.5 11.8 11.6 11.6
Gloucester $154,245,706 $534 10.2 10.7 10.5 10.8
Hudson $532,889,726 $839 11.8 11.5 10.9 11.4
Hunterdon $63,877,265 $498 7.6 7.7 7.4 7.6
Mercer $5,666,815,739 $15,450 8.6 8.8 8.4 8.9
Middlesex $553,807,089 $683 9.6 9.7 9.2 9.6
Monmouth $286,543,107 $454 9.2 9.3 9.1 9.4
Morris $237,033,147 $481 8.0 7.9 7.6 7.8
Ocean $274,410,123 $475 9.7 10.2 9.8 10.3
Passaic $360,140,078 $718 12.2 12.1 11.8 12.0
Salem $57,590,327 $872 10.7 11.2 10.7 11.7
Somerset $116,247,561 $359 8.2 8.2 7.9 8.3
Sussex $54,667,716 $366 9.3 9.9 9.5 9.5
Union $373,066,762 $694 10.3 10.3 10.2 10.2
Warren $58,745,128 $540 9.5 9.9 8.7 8.7