Recovery Tracker

How Much Stimulus Funding is Going to Your County?

Texas

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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. Texas
Population 308,745,538 25,145,561
Total recovery funding $522,082,377,600 $33,743,416,807
Funding per Capita $1,691 $1,342
Unemployment
7/2008
6.2
5.3
7/2009
+3.6
9.8
+3.0
8.3
7/2010
-0.2
9.6
+0.2
8.5
7/2011
-0.6
9.0
+0.0
8.5
7/2012
-0.9
8.1
-1.0
7.5
Unemployment Rate, 7/08 – 7/12

Funding by Federal Agency and Department

Health and Human Services, Department of $9,045,685,430
Education, Department of $7,600,561,817
Agriculture, Department of $3,750,111,137
Transportation, Department of $2,949,462,505
Small Business Administration $2,371,183,941
Energy, Department of $2,026,762,303
Employment and Training Administration $1,092,541,367
Army, Department of $893,983,990
Social Security Administration $846,720,119
Housing and Urban Development, Department of $609,043,752
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $425,725,325
General Services Administration $410,533,097
Environmental Protection Agency $405,127,748
Justice, Department of $230,543,496
Homeland Security, Department of $187,326,693
State, Department of $173,036,335
National Science Foundation $143,327,576
Commerce, Department of $143,221,992
National Aeronautics and Space Administration $114,102,129
Department of the Air Force $101,807,374
Department of Veterans Affairs $75,024,226
Navy, Department of $68,642,427
Interior, Department of $35,410,288
Office of the Secretary of Defense $29,184,217
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management $16,087,293
Air Training Command $3,937,809
Independent Agencies $3,311,004
Government Accountability Office $1,556,802
Federal Communications Commission $1,540,852
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities $1,252,300
Congress, generally, no additional specification available $295,671
Department of Labor $14,843
Employment Standards Administration $9,383

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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
Anderson $26,003,616 $445 9.5 9.8 9.8 9.0
Andrews $13,511,197 $911 8.4 6.3 5.5 4.5
Angelina $46,495,289 $535 9.4 8.4 8.3 7.6
Aransas $9,563,227 $413 7.4 8.0 8.1 6.5
Archer $6,180,463 $682 6.6 6.6 6.6 5.7
Armstrong $1,227,610 $645 5.3 4.7 5.2 5.2
Atascosa $24,459,990 $544 8.3 8.4 8.8 7.7
Austin $42,792,224 $1,504 8.1 7.8 9.2 6.5
Bailey $6,879,052 $958 5.8 6.9 7.8 7.2
Bandera $4,259,898 $208 6.8 7.2 7.0 6.4
Bastrop $40,711,314 $547 8.5 8.5 8.8 7.2
Baylor $2,598,835 $698 6.2 6.5 6.2 5.5
Bee $23,057,263 $723 10.3 10.0 9.2 8.0
Bell $962,849,003 $3,076 7.1 7.7 8.6 8.1
Bexar $1,376,255,815 $798 7.3 7.9 8.2 7.4
Blanco $4,957,702 $471 5.8 5.9 6.6 6.2
Borden $407,591 $630 6.6 5.1 3.9 3.2
Bosque $25,367,187 $1,389 8.3 8.5 9.0 8.4
Bowie $73,563,950 $793 7.1 8.7 8.4 7.4
Brazoria $167,149,827 $531 8.8 9.4 9.0 7.7
Brazos $228,798,299 $1,169 6.3 6.6 7.2 6.7
Brewster $15,422,552 $1,658 5.6 5.7 6.0 5.5
Briscoe $1,050,313 $644 5.8 5.9 7.4 6.4
Brooks $69,208,164 $9,611 11.5 10.9 10.7 8.8
Brown $20,179,380 $529 7.6 7.5 7.5 6.7
Burleson $27,543,247 $1,601 7.3 7.0 7.8 6.5
Burnet $18,246,346 $426 6.7 6.7 6.9 6.0
Caldwell $14,348,016 $376 9.3 9.0 9.6 8.0
Calhoun $9,533,290 $446 9.2 9.4 9.7 7.7
Callahan $12,276,323 $907 6.8 6.3 7.0 5.8
Cameron $397,877,631 $975 10.4 11.7 12.1 11.6
Camp $6,529,415 $526 9.8 9.5 9.8 8.5
Carson $13,468,825 $2,185 6.6 5.5 5.6 5.1
Cass $21,324,808 $699 12.6 11.3 11.3 9.9
Castro $18,654,297 $2,300 5.5 6.2 6.3 5.8
Chambers $71,701,335 $2,031 10.5 10.8 9.9 9.1
Cherokee $20,890,912 $410 9.5 9.5 9.4 8.6
Childress $9,518,317 $1,348 6.3 7.2 6.6 5.6
Clay $4,317,038 $402 7.2 6.5 6.5 6.0
Cochran $3,822,006 $1,218 7.8 8.8 9.2 8.7
Coke $1,560,004 $469 9.1 9.3 7.2 6.9
Coleman $13,519,950 $1,520 7.7 7.3 8.0 6.9
Collin $363,445,899 $461 8.0 7.8 7.5 6.8
Collingsworth $1,146,100 $374 6.3 5.3 5.8 5.4
Colorado $8,673,315 $415 7.2 7.6 7.8 6.2
Comal $62,140,702 $568 6.6 7.0 7.4 6.7
Comanche $14,053,211 $1,005 6.9 6.8 7.2 6.5
Concho $12,927,425 $3,171 8.4 9.2 8.4 8.3
Cooke $37,497,452 $975 7.3 6.8 5.8 5.0
Coryell $40,485,879 $535 9.1 9.4 9.9 9.7
Cottle $1,147,454 $762 6.7 7.2 6.4 6.4
Crane $2,401,090 $548 9.2 7.8 7.7 6.3
Crockett $1,224,053 $330 10.3 6.3 5.7 4.5
Crosby $5,905,205 $975 7.1 8.1 8.7 7.2
Culberson $3,869,550 $1,610 4.8 4.6 4.2 4.0
Dallam $18,879,016 $2,802 4.3 5.2 4.7 4.2
Dallas $1,801,009,784 $758 8.8 9.0 8.8 7.8
Dawson $23,118,551 $1,667 8.8 8.8 8.7 7.6
Deaf Smith $15,718,039 $808 5.9 6.2 6.1 5.4
Delta $1,887,540 $359 8.8 8.8 10.1 7.3
Denton $354,780,031 $532 7.9 7.7 7.4 6.8
DeWitt $5,056,239 $251 8.2 8.6 7.2 5.9
Dickens $1,651,748 $673 7.3 9.5 13.4 9.8
Dimmit $13,173,331 $1,312 11.8 10.5 7.5 6.1
Donley $2,808,767 $763 7.5 7.5 7.0 6.2
Duval $7,506,960 $639 12.6 11.9 9.4 7.8
Eastland $15,148,938 $814 8.7 8.6 7.9 7.0
Ector $293,251,359 $2,138 9.9 8.3 6.2 4.9
Edwards $3,737,422 $1,875 7.4 7.7 7.9 7.8
Ellis $89,121,753 $592 8.7 8.7 9.1 7.6
El Paso $916,249,199 $1,139 9.8 10.2 11.0 10.1
Erath $32,482,686 $856 7.6 7.1 7.1 6.5
Falls $12,623,367 $706 9.5 10.0 10.0 9.2
Fannin $19,002,472 $560 9.4 9.6 10.5 9.3
Fayette $12,955,782 $528 6.3 6.0 6.3 5.4
Fisher $4,070,002 $1,029 6.6 6.5 7.1 5.9
Floyd $5,523,475 $860 7.2 9.3 8.4 7.4
Foard $9,084,877 $6,775 6.1 7.2 7.0 5.7
Fort Bend $423,569,007 $717 7.8 8.4 7.9 6.7
Franklin $6,439,062 $607 7.8 7.8 7.8 7.0
Freestone $10,858,768 $548 7.0 6.9 7.0 6.2
Frio $9,598,731 $557 8.9 8.2 8.3 6.7
Gaines $8,452,725 $480 7.4 6.4 6.2 5.3
Galveston $397,114,299 $1,357 8.6 9.6 9.6 8.7
Garza $3,382,250 $524 5.7 5.6 8.0 6.8
Gillespie $16,176,693 $650 4.7 4.7 5.2 4.8
Glasscock $2,211,730 $1,801 5.1 5.6 4.5 4.7
Goliad $3,014,844 $417 7.8 7.4 6.9 5.9
Gonzales $8,348,525 $420 5.7 6.2 6.2 5.4
Gray $10,421,071 $464 9.3 7.4 6.3 5.6
Grayson $88,812,444 $733 8.6 8.6 8.8 7.7
Gregg $99,465,320 $816 8.2 7.8 7.2 6.4
Grimes $18,888,438 $709 9.7 9.0 8.4 7.3
Guadalupe $60,973,249 $460 7.0 7.2 7.0 6.6
Hale $25,185,140 $692 7.0 7.8 8.1 7.7
Hall $3,982,359 $1,187 8.5 10.2 9.5 8.2
Hamilton $4,568,341 $537 6.4 6.7 6.3 5.9
Hansford $5,838,935 $1,038 5.8 4.5 4.9 4.5
Hardeman $2,418,692 $583 7.7 7.4 6.3 5.4
Hardin $20,332,986 $371 9.9 10.2 10.0 8.8
Harris $3,725,548,499 $906 8.3 8.8 8.7 7.5
Harrison $32,943,780 $501 9.0 9.0 8.3 7.5
Hartley $4,651,762 $767 4.4 5.1 5.6 5.2
Haskell $3,347,844 $568 5.8 5.2 5.8 5.8
Hays $156,830,876 $991 7.2 7.3 7.2 6.3
Hemphill $1,032,163 $272 4.1 3.1 3.1 2.7
Henderson $33,418,379 $425 8.6 9.0 8.9 8.0
Hidalgo $844,797,035 $1,083 11.5 12.3 13.0 12.3
Hill $26,395,201 $751 8.5 8.6 8.9 7.8
Hockley $26,826,655 $1,173 8.0 7.0 6.4 5.7
Hood $26,556,614 $518 7.8 7.3 7.7 6.5
Hopkins $20,262,203 $575 6.6 6.8 7.3 6.9
Houston $22,636,291 $954 10.4 10.5 10.7 10.3
Howard $31,966,411 $913 8.2 7.6 8.0 7.2
Hudspeth $12,476,602 $3,578 5.8 6.0 6.7 6.2
Hunt $61,291,783 $710 8.6 9.0 9.2 9.2
Hutchinson $28,625,738 $1,294 7.9 7.4 7.1 6.3
Irion $2,898,551 $1,805 6.2 5.6 6.2 4.6
Jack $2,359,592 $261 7.1 5.8 5.6 5.2
Jackson $7,573,690 $538 8.3 7.8 7.3 6.2
Jasper $36,556,875 $1,021 11.0 11.6 12.1 10.6
Jeff Davis $920,526 $392 5.4 6.0 6.0 5.8
Jefferson $189,075,008 $749 10.2 11.3 11.6 12.1
Jim Hogg $3,343,386 $630 8.8 7.9 7.0 5.3
Jim Wells $65,146,172 $1,592 10.4 8.7 7.2 5.8
Johnson $103,219,457 $683 9.2 8.7 8.0 7.5
Jones $10,013,049 $495 8.5 8.5 7.8 7.2
Karnes $5,509,092 $371 10.3 10.4 9.4 8.4
Kaufman $70,917,781 $682 8.9 9.4 9.0 8.0
Kendall $24,786,513 $736 6.4 6.3 6.8 6.2
Kenedy $285,181 $681 6.7 4.4 6.3 3.8
Kent $766,056 $947 5.3 5.9 6.2 5.7
Kerr $44,567,439 $897 6.1 6.2 6.9 6.2
Kimble $4,434,269 $964 5.4 6.7 7.1 6.2
King $220,438 $763 5.2 5.6 6.1 5.5
Kinney $1,171,940 $326 7.7 7.9 8.7 8.1
Kleberg $32,828,858 $1,023 7.6 7.3 7.7 6.6
Knox $2,868,381 $769 6.6 6.4 6.3 6.0
Lamar $28,295,388 $568 8.1 8.8 10.4 10.0
Lamb $10,339,154 $737 7.2 7.5 7.8 7.1
Lampasas $10,788,776 $547 6.3 6.3 7.7 7.4
La Salle $4,827,216 $700 10.6 9.6 6.7 5.3
Lavaca $5,660,412 $294 6.4 7.5 6.1 5.3
Lee $13,140,690 $791 7.4 7.4 6.2 5.4
Leon $18,170,127 $1,083 7.8 7.5 8.4 7.1
Liberty $28,163,961 $371 11.0 11.2 11.2 9.9
Limestone $21,338,422 $911 6.8 7.2 8.0 7.1
Lipscomb $1,148,738 $350 7.9 5.7 4.9 4.1
Live Oak $20,189,532 $1,746 8.0 7.6 6.1 5.1
Llano $6,017,883 $312 7.3 7.3 8.0 7.1
Loving $354,000 $4,265 10.0 9.8 9.3 11.4
Lubbock $285,451,721 $1,019 6.2 6.7 7.1 6.4
Lynn $9,866,067 $1,672 6.8 7.7 8.5 7.3
McCulloch $5,984,416 $726 9.6 7.8 6.2 5.8
McLennan $183,104,267 $776 7.2 7.5 8.1 7.4
McMullen $339,083 $476 7.7 8.3 4.0 3.0
Madison $5,121,781 $373 8.4 8.7 9.1 7.8
Marion $14,225,653 $1,356 12.0 10.8 10.0 8.5
Martin $45,890,671 $9,511 5.8 6.1 5.7 5.0
Mason $2,679,164 $666 5.8 5.4 5.3 4.8
Matagorda $36,130,597 $983 11.4 12.3 12.4 10.8
Maverick $43,858,650 $804 14.2 14.2 14.0 12.7
Medina $19,646,216 $426 7.1 7.8 7.8 7.3
Menard $907,362 $405 8.0 7.7 7.2 6.7
Midland $89,297,460 $652 6.7 5.7 4.8 4.2
Milam $10,239,916 $414 11.5 10.7 10.1 9.0
Mills $6,446,487 $1,301 5.9 6.1 6.5 5.7
Mitchell $9,695,186 $1,031 9.9 9.5 8.5 7.3
Montague $9,366,037 $476 8.2 7.1 6.2 5.7
Montgomery $280,276,442 $611 7.6 7.8 7.5 6.7
Moore $9,363,431 $426 5.0 5.1 5.2 4.8
Morris $6,464,097 $500 17.5 13.7 12.1 9.9
Motley $745,395 $613 5.5 5.7 5.7 5.3
Nacogdoches $53,451,353 $826 7.3 7.2 7.7 7.4
Navarro $66,825,611 $1,398 8.7 9.5 9.6 8.8
Newton $5,822,016 $404 12.3 13.0 14.5 12.7
Nolan $13,557,171 $890 6.8 7.2 6.9 6.2
Nueces $287,866,492 $845 7.7 8.0 8.1 6.9
Ochiltree $11,115,437 $1,089 7.1 5.5 4.4 3.8
Oldham $5,359,612 $2,609 6.7 6.6 5.1 5.2
Orange $75,591,217 $923 10.9 11.2 11.7 11.1
Palo Pinto $11,450,417 $407 8.6 8.2 7.8 6.8
Panola $13,019,472 $546 8.2 7.7 7.3 6.2
Parker $50,704,695 $432 8.5 7.8 7.7 6.8
Parmer $8,067,398 $783 4.8 5.0 5.8 5.4
Pecos $10,028,332 $646 10.4 7.5 5.7 4.9
Polk $16,012,506 $353 10.0 9.9 10.1 9.1
Potter $104,671,891 $862 6.7 6.8 7.0 6.5
Presidio $29,751,209 $3,772 18.2 18.3 15.8 14.3
Rains $3,989,138 $366 8.8 9.6 9.0 8.0
Randall $53,353,903 $440 5.1 5.0 5.2 4.8
Reagan $1,592,987 $475 7.9 5.7 3.6 2.8
Real $1,043,827 $315 6.4 5.8 7.7 6.9
Red River $4,193,876 $326 9.6 11.5 12.9 11.3
Reeves $7,270,213 $527 13.1 11.8 11.4 10.3
Refugio $8,304,893 $1,127 7.3 7.4 6.3 5.3
Roberts $334,818 $360 5.9 5.5 3.9 3.9
Robertson $29,556,704 $1,780 8.4 8.7 9.5 8.3
Rockwall $34,613,158 $438 7.7 7.5 7.5 6.8
Runnels $17,753,223 $1,686 8.2 10.5 8.8 6.7
Rusk $17,625,036 $330 8.8 7.9 7.7 7.3
Sabine $4,857,226 $448 15.7 15.6 16.6 16.5
San Augustine $4,712,131 $534 10.9 12.1 12.3 11.1
San Jacinto $6,011,303 $227 10.1 10.0 9.8 8.9
San Patricio $47,400,340 $734 9.7 10.6 9.9 8.1
San Saba $15,180,708 $2,467 8.1 8.3 8.1 7.9
Schleicher $1,448,184 $415 10.9 8.2 6.5 5.2
Scurry $9,096,665 $537 8.4 7.2 6.4 5.5
Shackelford $4,140,355 $1,228 4.2 4.8 4.3 3.7
Shelby $32,895,124 $1,292 8.2 8.7 8.4 7.7
Sherman $3,161,398 $1,042 5.1 5.5 5.5 4.9
Smith $161,806,620 $769 8.2 8.0 8.1 7.4
Somervell $5,378,993 $633 8.2 8.5 7.8 7.2
Starr $73,676,485 $1,203 17.3 17.6 17.2 16.2
Stephens $7,148,071 $743 7.6 7.1 7.9 6.3
Sterling $420,068 $369 4.4 4.2 4.1 3.6
Stonewall $1,385,837 $920 4.8 5.1 5.0 4.3
Sutton $1,413,713 $346 7.7 5.6 4.8 3.7
Swisher $7,985,100 $1,010 6.5 6.5 7.2 6.5
Tarrant $1,506,284,513 $829 8.3 8.5 8.3 7.3
Taylor $97,058,032 $736 6.2 6.7 6.9 6.3
Terrell $706,014 $704 9.0 9.7 8.7 6.9
Terry $6,744,455 $532 7.9 7.8 7.9 7.4
Throckmorton $715,179 $437 5.4 6.0 5.9 4.8
Titus $27,539,320 $848 8.1 8.2 8.6 8.1
Tom Green $72,324,820 $653 7.1 6.7 6.9 6.1
Travis $13,269,858,509 $12,873 7.3 7.1 7.2 6.3
Trinity $3,914,642 $268 9.0 8.6 9.5 8.9
Tyler $9,194,335 $423 10.7 11.1 12.5 11.3
Upshur $14,268,414 $363 8.8 8.0 7.6 6.5
Upton $1,185,408 $353 6.1 5.3 4.9 4.1
Uvalde $34,351,561 $1,297 9.0 9.9 9.9 8.6
Val Verde $35,657,776 $727 10.0 8.9 11.8 8.2
Van Zandt $20,377,993 $387 7.5 7.7 7.9 7.1
Victoria $61,601,324 $709 7.8 7.8 6.8 6.2
Walker $36,337,606 $533 7.7 8.0 8.8 8.0
Waller $30,993,788 $714 9.1 9.6 9.7 8.3
Ward $5,357,424 $504 10.6 8.4 6.5 5.3
Washington $19,908,203 $589 7.0 6.7 6.8 6.1
Webb $264,424,904 $1,051 9.7 9.2 8.8 7.8
Wharton $31,494,173 $761 7.5 9.0 9.2 7.6
Wheeler $1,297,521 $240 6.5 4.5 4.3 4.3
Wichita $101,593,747 $771 8.3 8.5 8.0 7.4
Wilbarger $12,575,199 $930 5.3 7.0 6.2 5.5
Willacy $106,953,175 $4,821 13.3 14.4 15.8 14.5
Williamson $298,151,410 $699 7.9 7.5 7.3 6.5
Wilson $21,294,183 $494 7.4 8.2 7.9 6.9
Winkler $4,000,017 $564 10.9 7.8 6.4 5.5
Wise $31,769,369 $537 10.2 8.6 8.0 7.4
Wood $43,135,618 $1,027 8.4 8.6 8.5 8.0
Yoakum $5,583,568 $710 9.1 6.8 5.2 4.1
Young $8,736,749 $471 7.2 6.7 7.0 6.1
Zapata $5,217,689 $371 12.4 11.5 9.5 7.7
Zavala $7,266,952 $620 16.6 17.8 18.3 15.4