Recovery Tracker

How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

Arkansas

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U.S. Arkansas
Population 308,745,538 2,915,918
Total recovery funding $522,082,377,600 $4,489,994,609
Funding per Capita $1,691 $1,540
Unemployment
7/2008
6.2
5.4
7/2009
+3.6
9.8
+2.3
7.7
7/2010
-0.2
9.6
+0.0
7.7
7/2011
-0.6
9.0
+0.8
8.5
7/2012
-0.9
8.1
-0.7
7.8
Unemployment Rate, 7/08 – 7/12

Funding by Federal Agency and Department

Health and Human Services, Department of $995,380,412
Education, Department of $888,048,042
Agriculture, Department of $787,784,776
Transportation, Department of $422,616,053
Employment and Training Administration $269,048,977
Small Business Administration $190,762,378
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $171,120,551
Social Security Administration $156,012,250
Energy, Department of $140,973,485
Housing and Urban Development, Department of $119,089,754
Commerce, Department of $114,122,344
Environmental Protection Agency $54,576,066
Army, Department of $47,439,486
Justice, Department of $37,280,132
Homeland Security, Department of $21,955,548
Department of Veterans Affairs $19,267,630
National Science Foundation $15,867,268
General Services Administration $15,164,562
Air Mobility Command $12,806,745
Interior, Department of $8,111,837
Department of the Air Force $3,068,963
State, Department of $1,231,227
Independent Agencies $894,715
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities $402,100
Office of Job Corps $42,419
Federal Communications Commission $38,272

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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
Arkansas $14,810,630 $780 15.0 15.5 10.9 7.2
Ashley $12,864,851 $589 9.9 9.6 10.9 11.9
Baxter $26,889,426 $648 9.2 8.6 8.6 8.0
Benton $148,916,820 $668 6.4 6.5 6.8 6.2
Boone $87,919,231 $2,381 7.0 7.0 7.1 7.3
Bradley $10,789,366 $939 8.9 8.8 11.8 10.1
Calhoun $3,507,951 $657 8.3 7.5 10.2 9.3
Carroll $11,078,606 $402 5.2 5.7 5.9 5.1
Chicot $26,918,658 $2,285 10.2 10.0 12.7 10.6
Clark $30,161,744 $1,313 8.0 8.2 10.5 10.2
Clay $19,113,669 $1,189 10.7 10.7 14.9 12.7
Cleburne $14,507,800 $558 7.1 6.6 8.0 7.3
Cleveland $6,922,514 $796 6.7 7.0 7.9 7.1
Columbia $14,668,776 $598 9.7 9.7 10.4 9.4
Conway $15,814,368 $744 8.0 8.0 8.8 8.0
Craighead $99,139,372 $1,024 7.0 7.1 7.9 7.5
Crawford $36,610,704 $590 7.8 7.6 8.6 8.2
Crittenden $75,017,189 $1,473 10.6 11.2 13.4 11.0
Cross $11,151,930 $625 7.9 7.9 8.7 8.4
Dallas $23,592,089 $2,918 8.5 11.0 11.1 10.7
Desha $9,423,997 $726 10.7 10.9 12.7 11.1
Drew $31,857,419 $1,721 10.9 10.6 12.6 11.6
Faulkner $109,357,120 $959 6.9 7.5 7.5 7.0
Franklin $45,345,508 $2,503 7.1 7.1 7.9 7.4
Fulton $7,684,475 $628 7.3 7.2 8.1 7.6
Garland $71,353,132 $742 7.3 7.7 8.3 8.0
Grant $25,886,379 $1,447 6.6 6.9 7.1 6.7
Greene $19,397,550 $460 9.5 9.1 10.7 9.7
Hempstead $26,763,371 $1,183 8.1 8.7 8.9 7.5
Hot Spring $16,173,084 $491 8.3 7.4 7.9 6.8
Howard $8,473,398 $613 8.1 7.8 8.6 7.3
Independence $44,895,602 $1,222 8.9 8.2 10.0 9.1
Izard $8,191,091 $599 9.3 9.0 10.4 9.3
Jackson $11,644,774 $648 10.3 10.0 11.2 10.0
Jefferson $111,805,548 $1,445 9.9 10.1 11.4 10.1
Johnson $20,973,206 $820 7.4 7.6 8.2 7.8
Lafayette $6,034,108 $790 9.7 9.3 10.4 10.8
Lawrence $33,014,117 $1,895 9.0 9.3 10.7 10.3
Lee $12,714,127 $1,221 9.0 9.1 12.0 12.3
Lincoln $25,025,342 $1,774 9.4 8.9 9.9 10.0
Little River $6,157,204 $468 5.9 7.1 8.4 7.3
Logan $13,337,478 $597 9.0 7.7 9.3 8.6
Lonoke $29,613,115 $431 6.0 6.9 6.9 6.5
Madison $11,356,567 $722 6.5 5.8 6.3 5.6
Marion $19,301,616 $1,161 12.0 10.1 9.4 8.4
Miller $42,250,166 $971 5.5 5.7 7.3 6.3
Mississippi $68,340,712 $1,474 14.4 11.5 12.3 10.3
Monroe $10,546,185 $1,302 8.0 7.8 9.6 9.0
Montgomery $4,530,439 $478 6.1 6.5 7.6 7.4
Nevada $5,629,186 $627 9.0 8.2 9.5 7.0
Newton $4,847,840 $582 7.8 6.7 8.2 7.7
Ouachita $20,364,359 $779 8.6 8.6 10.2 9.6
Perry $3,598,664 $345 8.0 7.7 9.0 8.1
Phillips $40,961,300 $1,892 9.6 9.6 12.3 11.6
Pike $4,443,623 $394 7.4 7.3 9.6 8.9
Poinsett $17,190,517 $700 8.7 8.7 9.0 8.2
Polk $25,617,768 $1,239 7.6 7.0 8.7 8.2
Pope $67,193,496 $1,086 7.8 7.9 8.8 8.1
Prairie $4,700,270 $541 6.7 7.4 8.3 7.8
Pulaski $2,177,470,914 $5,676 6.8 7.1 7.8 7.2
Randolph $16,403,488 $913 8.9 9.2 10.9 10.5
St. Francis $30,498,571 $1,083 10.3 9.9 12.2 11.2
Saline $56,030,391 $521 6.7 6.9 6.9 6.6
Scott $8,872,108 $787 6.8 6.5 7.4 7.2
Searcy $6,072,742 $742 6.9 7.7 8.7 8.0
Sebastian $136,889,613 $1,087 7.2 6.8 8.3 8.1
Sevier $12,768,203 $745 6.1 5.9 9.0 8.1
Sharp $10,049,724 $583 8.9 9.7 10.4 10.1
Stone $6,397,308 $516 8.1 8.0 10.6 9.5
Union $33,728,880 $812 10.3 9.7 10.1 9.2
Van Buren $8,354,113 $484 9.9 9.2 10.0 9.3
Washington $180,051,185 $882 6.1 6.1 6.5 6.0
White $45,642,926 $590 8.1 8.1 9.3 8.3
Woodruff $9,291,133 $1,282 10.1 9.2 11.4 11.2
Yell $15,083,765 $679 8.8 6.3 7.4 6.8