Recovery Tracker

How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

Iowa

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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. Iowa
Population 308,745,538 3,046,355
Total recovery funding $522,082,377,600 $4,670,017,071
Funding per Capita $1,691 $1,533
Unemployment
7/2008
6.2
4.1
7/2009
+3.6
9.8
+1.6
5.7
7/2010
-0.2
9.6
+0.8
6.5
7/2011
-0.6
9.0
-0.9
5.6
7/2012
-0.9
8.1
-0.4
5.2
Unemployment Rate, 7/08 – 7/12

Funding by Federal Agency and Department

Education, Department of $1,140,537,852
Health and Human Services, Department of $873,711,277
Agriculture, Department of $732,692,047
Small Business Administration $444,613,616
Transportation, Department of $440,862,327
Employment and Training Administration $296,604,139
Energy, Department of $191,428,889
Social Security Administration $145,494,025
Environmental Protection Agency $83,407,590
Housing and Urban Development, Department of $73,288,356
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management $46,542,195
Commerce, Department of $45,858,730
General Services Administration $41,732,533
Homeland Security, Department of $37,262,788
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $37,109,969
Justice, Department of $31,971,647
National Science Foundation $18,783,111
Department of Veterans Affairs $13,657,157
Army, Department of $13,647,960
Interior, Department of $4,833,283
Independent Agencies $1,651,631
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities $478,078
State, Department of $248,086
National Aeronautics and Space Administration $141,980

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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
Adair $3,071,046 $400 4.4 5.7 4.2 4.3
Adams $2,145,014 $534 5.1 5.4 4.5 4.5
Allamakee $9,704,521 $676 8.0 8.3 6.8 6.3
Appanoose $16,099,294 $1,250 7.6 7.4 6.7 7.0
Audubon $2,683,944 $439 4.6 5.9 5.7 4.8
Benton $17,127,804 $657 5.4 6.3 5.1 4.9
Black Hawk $118,048,334 $900 6.1 6.5 5.6 5.5
Boone $14,562,527 $554 5.3 5.9 4.8 4.3
Bremer $21,152,634 $871 5.4 5.5 4.3 3.8
Buchanan $12,764,282 $610 5.9 6.2 5.4 4.7
Buena Vista $25,441,249 $1,251 5.4 5.8 5.3 5.1
Butler $4,621,514 $310 6.2 6.2 4.5 4.3
Calhoun $9,987,770 $1,034 4.7 5.8 5.1 4.8
Carroll $22,013,919 $1,056 3.8 4.8 3.8 3.5
Cass $7,121,617 $510 5.5 6.5 5.3 4.7
Cedar $7,643,830 $413 5.3 5.8 5.0 4.5
Cerro Gordo $46,191,240 $1,047 6.0 7.3 5.6 5.5
Cherokee $8,942,555 $739 4.1 5.4 5.0 4.5
Chickasaw $12,936,783 $1,042 7.6 7.3 5.3 4.5
Clarke $53,083,273 $5,708 6.4 7.6 6.6 5.8
Clay $10,296,588 $618 6.0 6.2 5.2 5.2
Clayton $24,290,390 $1,343 6.8 7.9 5.5 5.7
Clinton $155,508,188 $3,168 6.6 7.2 6.3 5.9
Crawford $7,269,092 $424 4.0 4.9 4.3 4.2
Dallas $34,850,936 $523 4.4 5.5 4.7 4.5
Davis $7,306,807 $834 8.9 8.2 6.4 6.2
Decatur $19,610,086 $2,325 6.4 8.1 5.7 5.0
Delaware $9,073,914 $511 5.5 6.3 5.1 4.2
Des Moines $69,703,278 $1,729 6.8 7.6 6.5 6.5
Dickinson $15,215,156 $913 5.1 6.2 5.2 4.7
Dubuque $63,127,154 $672 5.7 6.4 5.1 4.6
Emmet $10,255,180 $998 8.2 7.8 6.2 5.0
Fayette $28,971,009 $1,390 7.9 7.6 6.2 5.4
Floyd $30,937,642 $1,897 7.5 7.1 5.9 6.0
Franklin $6,006,221 $562 6.2 6.9 5.1 4.4
Fremont $20,230,035 $2,722 6.1 6.9 7.0 6.2
Greene $5,797,132 $621 5.3 7.0 5.8 5.3
Grundy $6,763,754 $543 5.1 6.0 4.5 3.9
Guthrie $7,909,250 $722 5.2 6.2 5.1 5.1
Hamilton $12,537,690 $802 8.0 7.8 10.1 7.3
Hancock $7,783,210 $688 8.4 7.5 6.1 5.0
Hardin $8,474,244 $484 5.6 7.1 6.4 5.2
Harrison $51,793,843 $3,471 3.6 4.7 4.5 3.8
Henry $9,869,596 $491 8.5 8.8 7.1 6.5
Howard $8,015,587 $839 6.7 6.8 5.5 4.7
Humboldt $7,794,785 $796 5.3 5.5 5.0 4.4
Ida $7,241,336 $1,023 5.2 5.0 4.9 3.8
Iowa $5,777,712 $354 5.5 6.6 5.2 4.9
Jackson $9,538,483 $481 7.0 7.1 6.3 5.2
Jasper $22,850,511 $621 7.1 8.8 7.1 6.7
Jefferson $15,293,306 $909 7.9 8.0 6.9 6.6
Johnson $181,754,726 $1,385 4.5 5.0 4.6 4.2
Jones $16,778,716 $813 5.9 5.9 5.3 5.2
Keokuk $7,087,357 $675 6.9 7.4 5.9 5.5
Kossuth $7,627,148 $492 5.6 5.1 4.0 4.0
Lee $46,771,280 $1,304 9.5 9.7 8.8 8.0
Linn $167,922,606 $794 5.6 6.5 5.6 5.3
Louisa $7,782,024 $684 7.8 6.9 5.9 6.0
Lucas $5,523,989 $622 5.3 6.4 5.0 4.8
Lyon $8,023,379 $693 3.9 3.9 2.8 2.7
Madison $24,518,147 $1,558 4.9 6.8 5.4 5.4
Mahaska $24,545,639 $1,097 6.9 7.5 6.0 5.4
Marion $18,790,599 $565 5.3 6.5 5.5 4.9
Marshall $30,247,078 $742 5.9 7.1 6.5 6.3
Mills $30,798,271 $2,045 3.8 4.1 3.8 3.2
Mitchell $4,133,268 $383 5.0 5.4 4.8 4.9
Monona $36,238,797 $3,926 6.7 8.2 8.2 6.7
Monroe $3,728,823 $468 6.9 6.7 5.8 5.3
Montgomery $5,676,517 $530 7.8 10.4 6.1 5.6
Muscatine $24,196,402 $566 7.5 7.5 5.7 5.3
O'Brien $8,794,263 $612 4.6 5.3 4.3 4.2
Osceola $6,819,760 $1,059 5.7 6.3 4.7 4.8
Page $14,117,513 $887 7.1 7.2 5.8 5.4
Palo Alto $40,784,944 $4,347 6.0 5.9 4.5 4.5
Plymouth $21,416,353 $857 3.9 4.8 4.5 4.0
Pocahontas $12,744,821 $1,751 5.2 5.7 4.4 4.2
Polk $1,772,071,624 $4,100 5.4 6.5 5.8 5.3
Pottawattamie $55,295,715 $592 4.0 5.1 4.4 4.1
Poweshiek $10,213,156 $541 6.0 6.3 5.6 4.9
Ringgold $9,310,801 $1,815 4.6 5.5 4.6 4.5
Sac $8,542,230 $826 4.2 5.2 4.2 3.9
Scott $319,414,446 $1,926 6.2 7.3 6.4 6.4
Shelby $18,250,304 $1,501 3.5 4.1 3.8 3.4
Sioux $30,309,830 $899 4.1 4.3 3.9 3.6
Story $127,858,841 $1,427 4.6 5.4 5.0 4.5
Tama $14,795,030 $834 5.9 6.9 6.0 5.9
Taylor $6,717,613 $1,066 5.7 6.0 4.5 4.0
Union $50,118,182 $4,000 5.3 6.2 4.8 4.8
Van Buren $8,335,160 $1,104 7.8 8.2 6.7 6.5
Wapello $101,487,167 $2,845 8.5 8.6 7.1 7.1
Warren $25,518,625 $551 4.9 6.0 5.0 4.7
Washington $9,840,722 $454 4.9 5.4 4.7 4.2
Wayne $23,520,326 $3,674 5.3 6.0 5.2 4.9
Webster $27,558,759 $727 7.1 8.2 7.9 7.3
Winnebago $25,201,401 $2,325 8.0 8.1 6.8 5.4
Winneshiek $23,947,802 $1,137 5.1 5.7 4.8 4.5
Woodbury $96,281,382 $940 4.8 7.2 5.9 5.1
Worth $3,697,934 $487 5.7 7.6 6.1 4.6
Wright $29,472,338 $2,232 7.0 7.6 6.7 5.7