PlainSpending

Atchison County

$6,449 per resident in FY2025 ($105.4M total) - low intensity.

Kansas · FIPS 20005

In FY2025, Atchison County carried a thin absolute book of $105.4M - $6,449 per capita for 16,348 residents. Intensity sits 58.8% below the national average (-38.9% vs Kansas). Leading tracked agency: Social Security Administration. Per-capita rank in-state: #98/105.

Total spending
$105.4M
Per capita
$6,449
vs. national avg
-58.8%
Fiscal year
FY2025

Low per-resident intensity

Atchison County residents see a thin $6,449 each (#2771 of 3,224 per capita).

Low per-resident intensity

Atchison County posts below-median federal per-capita spending nationally, with spending concentrated almost entirely in Social Security Administration.

National per-capita rank
Top 86%
of 3,232 US counties
Per-capita spending
$6,449
Leading agency
Social Security Administration
84.2% of tracked spending
Kansas rank
#98 of 105

How Atchison County Compares

Per-capita federal spending: Atchison County vs. Kansas and the nation

Atchison County$6,449Kansas avg$10,560National avg$15,647
Source: USASpending.gov FY2025 + U.S. Census Bureau population estimates.

Population: 16,348 (U.S. Census Bureau estimate) - the denominator behind the per-capita figures above.

Leading Federal Agencies in Atchison County

Top awarding agencies in Atchison County, FY2025

Social Security Administrati…$78.2MDepartment of Veterans Affai…$8.7MDepartment of Agriculture$6.0M
Source: USASpending.gov FY2025, aggregated by awarding agency.

Among the 3,224 US counties with agency-level spending data, Social Security Administration is the most common leading agency nationally, topping 89.7% of agency-tracked counties.

These 3 agencies together account for $92.8M (88.1%) of Atchison County's $105.4M in total tracked federal spending -- the remainder is spread across smaller awarding agencies not individually broken out in this dataset.

All 3 individually-tracked agencies are shown above - Atchison County has no smaller residual awarding agencies broken out beyond this set, a compact agency footprint rather than a long tail of minor awardees.

Read the agency breakdown as a table
Agency Spending Share
Social Security Administration $78.2M 84.2%
Department of Veterans Affairs $8.7M 9.4%
Department of Agriculture $6.0M 6.4%

How Atchison County Ranks Nationally

Per-capita federal spending vs. all US counties

All 3,232 US counties, FY2025

$6,449 Among the lowest higher than 14% of 3,224 US counties

all US counties, per-capita spending, bucketed by value

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Source USASpending.gov FY2025 + U.S. Census Bureau population estimates

Atchison County Among Kansas's Largest Counties

Population vs. per-capita spending: Kansas's biggest counties

The 16 largest-population counties in Kansas by FY2025 federal spending, plotted by population against spending per resident. Bubble size tracks total spending; Atchison County is highlighted. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Population (X) and Spending per capita ($) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Large and spending-intensiveSmall population, outsized spendingLarge population, modest per-residentSmaller footprint both ways 0200,000400,000600,000800,000 $4,000$6,000$8,000$10,000$12,000$14,000 Population Spending per capita ($)
The 16 largest-population counties in Kansas by FY2025 federal spending, plotted by population against spending per resident. Bubble size tracks total spending; Atchison County is highlighted.
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County Population Per capita Total spending
Johnson County 609,863 $6,636 $4.0B
Sedgwick County 523,824 $8,235 $4.3B
Shawnee County 178,909 $12,052 $2.2B
Wyandotte County 169,245 $11,459 $1.9B
Douglas County 118,785 $6,576 $781.1M
Leavenworth County 81,881 $11,496 $941.3M
Riley County 71,959 $7,669 $551.8M
Butler County 67,380 $7,552 $508.8M
Reno County 61,898 $7,379 $456.7M
Saline County 54,303 $6,667 $362.1M
Crawford County 38,972 $6,408 $249.7M
Finney County 38,470 $5,345 $205.6M
Geary County 36,739 $11,266 $413.9M
Cowley County 34,549 $13,167 $454.9M
Ford County 34,287 $4,900 $168.0M
Atchison County (this county) 16,348 $6,449 $105.4M

Nearby Counties With Similar Federal Spending

Counties with per-capita federal spending closest to Atchison County's $6,449 - prioritizing Kansas peers first.

Lyon County

Kansas

$6,467 per capita

$208.1M total

Crawford County

Kansas

$6,408 per capita

$249.7M total

Miami County

Kansas

$6,391 per capita

$218.5M total

Douglas County

Kansas

$6,576 per capita

$781.1M total

Johnson County

Kansas

$6,636 per capita

$4.0B total

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Nationwide counties with similar per-capita or total federal spending

Two peer sets outside Kansas - per-resident intensity and total obligation volume, distinct from the same-state neighbors above.

Similar per-capita spending

Nearest out-of-state counties by federal spending per resident ($6,449 here).

Similar total federal spending

Nearest out-of-state counties by total obligations ($105.4M here).

Counties with fewer than 10,000 residents are excluded from the nationwide comparison corpus.

Data Source: USASpending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), Fiscal Year 2025. Population denominators are U.S. Census Bureau vintage estimates. County-level spending includes all federal awards with place of performance in this county; OMB budget categorizations are reflected at the agency level.

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