Recovery Tracker

How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

South Carolina

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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. South Carolina
Population 308,745,538 4,625,364
Total recovery funding $522,082,377,600 $7,803,249,835
Funding per Capita $1,691 $1,687
Unemployment
7/2008
6.2
7.0
7/2009
+3.6
9.8
+5.0
12.0
7/2010
-0.2
9.6
-0.8
11.2
7/2011
-0.6
9.0
-0.6
10.6
7/2012
-0.9
8.1
-1.0
9.6
Unemployment Rate, 7/08 – 7/12

Funding by Federal Agency and Department

Energy, Department of $1,786,444,779
Health and Human Services, Department of $1,563,682,572
Education, Department of $1,333,289,014
Agriculture, Department of $1,143,389,957
Transportation, Department of $569,664,563
Employment and Training Administration $440,309,677
Social Security Administration $219,375,000
Small Business Administration $205,333,578
Housing and Urban Development, Department of $130,298,469
Environmental Protection Agency $76,745,327
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $72,612,645
Justice, Department of $69,810,662
Army, Department of $44,610,213
Navy, Department of $44,287,254
Commerce, Department of $26,226,306
National Science Foundation $25,371,759
Department of the Air Force $22,931,769
Homeland Security, Department of $8,921,517
Interior, Department of $7,823,194
Department of Veterans Affairs $5,243,020
General Services Administration $3,702,809
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management $1,890,000
Independent Agencies $1,334,614
Treasury, Department of $600,000
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities $511,500
National Aeronautics and Space Administration $427,892
Federal Communications Commission $236,711
Congress, generally, no additional specification available $65,035

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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
Abbeville $18,078,220 $714 15.7 13.3 12.1 10.9
Aiken $1,686,525,949 $10,504 10.2 8.3 8.7 8.4
Allendale $16,751,862 $1,618 22.0 19.3 18.7 16.9
Anderson $127,998,664 $684 12.9 11.5 10.3 9.6
Bamberg $28,959,143 $1,816 17.8 16.4 17.5 16.1
Barnwell $16,981,637 $750 18.5 16.9 16.4 15.1
Beaufort $91,093,375 $559 9.0 8.7 9.3 8.6
Berkeley $80,533,173 $450 11.2 10.0 9.4 8.5
Calhoun $13,434,697 $888 12.8 11.5 15.1 12.2
Charleston $442,071,776 $1,258 9.5 9.2 8.9 7.9
Cherokee $28,458,254 $514 17.0 14.8 13.2 12.3
Chester $15,639,318 $473 21.1 17.9 16.1 14.7
Chesterfield $39,413,233 $845 18.1 15.4 13.5 12.7
Clarendon $39,568,500 $1,132 15.8 14.8 15.6 14.4
Colleton $23,538,227 $605 13.9 13.2 13.5 12.2
Darlington $46,086,418 $672 14.2 13.4 13.0 11.6
Dillon $54,968,457 $1,711 16.5 15.5 15.4 13.9
Dorchester $47,250,745 $344 10.5 8.8 8.4 8.0
Edgefield $20,032,160 $743 10.8 9.6 8.9 9.3
Fairfield $13,976,556 $585 14.1 13.2 12.4 11.7
Florence $117,673,776 $858 12.2 11.5 11.2 9.7
Georgetown $51,567,046 $858 11.9 11.4 10.4 9.4
Greenville $342,954,423 $757 10.5 9.5 8.5 7.9
Greenwood $64,109,701 $920 13.3 12.2 11.4 10.9
Hampton $14,572,816 $692 15.9 14.3 14.4 12.7
Horry $189,866,585 $702 10.4 10.1 10.1 9.4
Jasper $57,015,644 $2,286 11.0 10.2 10.4 9.0
Kershaw $32,698,220 $529 11.0 10.5 10.1 9.2
Lancaster $42,512,451 $553 18.5 16.1 13.9 12.7
Laurens $53,364,710 $802 13.2 12.4 11.6 10.1
Lee $13,362,116 $696 15.3 14.4 14.0 12.7
Lexington $154,927,860 $588 8.5 8.2 8.4 7.3
McCormick $22,262,774 $2,177 16.1 15.0 14.4 12.9
Marion $18,774,806 $569 21.1 19.9 19.4 17.6
Marlboro $26,305,452 $911 20.9 19.7 17.0 16.3
Newberry $20,621,962 $549 12.4 11.1 10.5 9.2
Oconee $42,867,808 $576 14.8 12.1 11.0 10.4
Orangeburg $106,245,415 $1,151 16.8 15.9 16.7 14.6
Pickens $101,734,694 $853 11.4 10.3 9.5 8.9
Richland $2,979,677,242 $7,724 10.0 9.9 10.2 9.4
Saluda $8,216,305 $412 9.7 9.2 8.9 7.6
Spartanburg $177,824,272 $625 13.2 11.8 11.2 10.1
Sumter $97,806,858 $909 13.4 13.1 12.0 11.0
Union $12,338,099 $427 21.0 18.2 16.6 14.9
Williamsburg $54,358,347 $1,582 15.6 14.4 13.2 12.1
York $148,230,094 $653 14.7 15.7 12.3 10.8