Recovery Tracker

How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

California

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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. California
Population 308,745,538 37,253,956
Total recovery funding $522,082,377,600 $64,837,005,870
Funding per Capita $1,691 $1,740
Unemployment
7/2008
6.2
7.6
7/2009
+3.6
9.8
+4.4
12.0
7/2010
-0.2
9.6
+0.8
12.8
7/2011
-0.6
9.0
-0.5
12.3
7/2012
-0.9
8.1
-1.4
10.9
Unemployment Rate, 7/08 – 7/12

Funding by Federal Agency and Department

Health and Human Services, Department of $18,670,745,293
Education, Department of $11,061,347,929
Transportation, Department of $7,543,223,753
Energy, Department of $6,522,211,099
Small Business Administration $4,361,725,717
Employment and Training Administration $4,240,540,709
Agriculture, Department of $3,867,642,071
Housing and Urban Development, Department of $1,572,843,586
Social Security Administration $1,319,140,340
Navy, Department of $818,218,023
General Services Administration $653,095,308
Interior, Department of $652,801,875
Commerce, Department of $590,285,955
Environmental Protection Agency $551,786,915
Justice, Department of $537,990,184
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $495,523,233
National Science Foundation $364,528,824
National Aeronautics and Space Administration $334,607,086
Homeland Security, Department of $228,456,169
Army, Department of $168,525,135
Department of the Air Force $124,461,238
Department of Veterans Affairs $106,486,423
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management $85,081,115
Treasury, Department of $12,600,000
Independent Agencies $11,013,302
Air Mobility Command $7,846,093
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities $5,098,666
State, Department of $2,518,735
Office of the Secretary of Defense $2,320,470
Department of Labor $1,844,773
Federal Communications Commission $1,635,260
Headquarters, Air Force Reserve $1,611,343
Joint House and Senate Entities $1,480,215
Congress, generally, no additional specification available $1,215,519
Occupational Safety and Health Administration $765,070
Executive Office of the President $100,000
Appalachian Regional Commission $44,741

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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
Alameda $3,477,256,655 $2,297 11.5 11.9 10.9 9.5
Alpine $1,812,563 $1,559 16.1 17.8 17.6 15.3
Amador $27,272,708 $717 11.8 13.1 12.7 11.9
Butte $160,472,778 $729 13.0 14.2 14.1 12.8
Calaveras $38,382,370 $844 14.3 15.7 14.6 13.1
Colusa $9,028,082 $420 14.8 17.3 17.6 17.3
Contra Costa $523,632,077 $497 11.0 11.7 10.9 9.4
Del Norte $30,257,682 $1,057 12.7 13.7 14.2 13.8
El Dorado $101,264,789 $559 11.5 12.2 11.7 10.1
Fresno $774,547,574 $830 14.8 16.2 16.2 14.7
Glenn $35,510,127 $1,262 15.4 16.6 16.8 15.2
Humboldt $171,270,584 $1,271 11.2 11.4 11.7 10.8
Imperial $199,409,418 $1,138 31.3 30.3 32.6 29.9
Inyo $47,609,107 $2,572 9.2 9.5 10.0 9.4
Kern $611,493,779 $726 14.4 16.0 15.3 13.6
Kings $126,532,317 $826 13.8 15.6 15.9 14.5
Lake $38,877,154 $600 15.0 17.3 16.2 14.7
Lassen $34,492,533 $991 12.0 14.2 13.4 12.7
Los Angeles $10,069,166,732 $1,024 12.5 13.4 13.2 11.9
Madera $95,778,199 $633 13.9 15.3 15.3 14.1
Marin $163,046,020 $645 8.4 8.6 7.8 6.7
Mariposa $22,116,304 $1,212 9.2 10.0 10.1 9.6
Mendocino $97,152,322 $1,106 10.5 11.4 10.8 9.8
Merced $183,000,352 $713 17.0 18.9 18.2 17.5
Modoc $15,956,835 $1,648 11.0 14.4 13.1 13.3
Mono $10,202,151 $717 9.8 10.6 10.7 10.5
Monterey $271,860,570 $652 9.9 10.8 10.4 9.5
Napa $175,820,717 $1,285 8.5 9.4 8.8 7.7
Nevada $61,761,881 $625 11.0 11.7 10.9 9.5
Orange $2,202,577,601 $730 9.7 9.8 9.2 7.9
Placer $187,201,439 $535 11.0 11.6 11.1 9.6
Plumas $40,034,581 $2,007 14.0 16.1 13.4 13.2
Riverside $1,168,962,298 $531 14.6 15.3 14.6 13.0
Sacramento $28,069,723,175 $19,740 11.8 13.1 12.8 11.1
San Benito $40,394,907 $727 12.8 15.6 14.0 11.6
San Bernardino $2,579,564,369 $1,263 14.0 14.8 14.0 12.4
San Diego $3,042,567,144 $980 10.3 10.8 10.5 9.2
San Francisco $1,776,105,206 $2,205 9.6 9.7 9.0 7.6
San Joaquin $457,306,233 $665 15.7 17.4 17.5 15.1
San Luis Obispo $1,700,786,945 $6,297 9.7 10.5 9.7 8.5
San Mateo $857,901,281 $1,191 9.1 9.4 8.4 7.0
Santa Barbara $332,213,738 $782 8.5 9.2 8.7 7.9
Santa Clara $1,558,347,283 $872 11.7 11.4 10.1 8.7
Santa Cruz $226,611,080 $861 10.3 11.4 10.9 9.7
Shasta $210,671,542 $1,188 14.7 15.6 14.5 13.1
Sierra $5,619,447 $1,737 13.5 12.9 13.7 11.5
Siskiyou $72,884,049 $1,622 13.7 15.9 15.5 14.4
Solano $297,891,288 $719 11.3 12.4 11.9 10.3
Sonoma $292,492,516 $603 10.4 10.8 10.2 8.6
Stanislaus $311,350,117 $604 16.0 17.6 17.2 15.7
Sutter $68,284,775 $720 15.7 18.7 17.7 16.7
Tehama $165,603,628 $2,604 14.2 15.8 16.3 15.3
Trinity $9,426,625 $683 15.5 18.4 16.1 15.7
Tulare $350,154,916 $789 15.1 16.9 16.9 15.8
Tuolumne $30,467,254 $552 12.4 13.5 12.8 11.7
Ventura $707,703,396 $857 10.8 11.3 10.4 9.4
Yolo $301,600,129 $1,499 11.0 12.0 11.8 10.5
Yuba $197,574,529 $2,729 17.6 19.6 19.2 18.2