How much federal spending did Eastern District, American Samoa receive?

Eastern District posted a thin absolute book of $59.9M in FY2025 ($3,511 per capita; population 17,059).

How does Eastern District's per capita spending compare to the national average?

Eastern District's $3,511 sits 77.6% below the $15,647 national average (-70.2% vs American Samoa).

What is the population of Eastern District, American Samoa?

Census estimates put Eastern District at 17,059 residents, the denominator behind a low $3,511 intensity.

Eastern District

$3,511 per resident in FY2025 ($59.9M total) - low intensity.

American Samoa · FIPS 60010

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Data updated September 2025

In FY2025, Eastern District carried a thin absolute book of $59.9M - $3,511 per capita for 17,059 residents. Intensity sits 77.6% below the national average (-70.2% vs American Samoa). Leading tracked agency: Department of Veterans Affairs. Per-capita rank in-state: #3/3.

Total spending: $59.9M
Per capita: $3,511
vs. national avg: -77.6%
Fiscal year: FY2025

Low per-resident intensity

Eastern District residents see a thin $3,511 each (#3210 of 3,224 per capita).

Low per-resident intensity

Eastern District posts below-median federal per-capita spending nationally, with spending dominated by Department of Veterans Affairs.

National per-capita rank: Top 100%; of 3,232 US counties
Per-capita spending: $3,511
Leading agency: Department of Veterans Affairs; 55.8% of tracked spending
American Samoa rank: #3 of 3

Understanding Eastern District's federal spending

Low-intensity per-resident context

USASpending.gov (Treasury) records only $59.9M in FY2025 place-of-performance awards for Eastern District, American Samoa (FIPS 60010) - a thin absolute book at $3,511 for 17,059 residents. Intensity sits 77.6% below the $15,647 national average.

Inside American Samoa ($586.0M statewide), Eastern District's low $3,511 sits 70.2% below the $11,788 state average.

By per-capita federal spending alone, Eastern District ranks #3 of 3 American Samoa counties.

Spending concentration

A single county rarely dominates a state's federal-spending total, but Eastern District is the exception here, pulling in 10.2% of every dollar American Samoa received statewide, a concentration usually tied to a major base, medical center, or federal facility.

Reading this number carefully

A per-capita figure this far from the norm is worth a second look before drawing conclusions. Nationally, county-level federal spending concentrates around a small number of drivers: a major military installation, a large VA medical center or federal hospital, a national laboratory, a federal prison, or a small resident population inflating an otherwise ordinary per-capita number. The dataset records dollars by place of performance only, it does not identify which of these applies to Eastern District, so this figure is best read as a prompt for further research rather than a stand-alone measure of local prosperity or federal favoritism. Readers comparing Eastern District to neighboring counties should also check population size before assuming the gap reflects total dollars rather than a small denominator.

Federal spending is attributed by place of performance, not recipient headquarters. See our methodology for the full population-source, attribution, and data-vintage rules.

How Eastern District Compares

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

Population: 17,059 (U.S. Census Bureau estimate) - the denominator behind the per-capita figures above.

Leading Federal Agencies in Eastern District

Source: USASpending.gov FY2025, aggregated by awarding agency.

Among the 3,224 US counties with agency-level spending data, Department of Veterans Affairs is a comparatively unusual leading agency, topping only 0.4% of agency-tracked counties nationally -- often a sign of a single large federal facility rather than broad-based spending.

These 3 agencies together account for $54.5M (91%) of Eastern District's $59.9M in total tracked federal spending.

All 3 individually-tracked agencies are shown above - Eastern District 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
Department of Veterans Affairs	$30.5M	55.8%
Department of Transportation	$16.3M	29.8%
Department of Agriculture	$7.8M	14.3%

How Eastern District Ranks Nationally

Per-capita federal spending vs. all US counties

All 3,232 US counties, FY2025

$3,511 Among the lowest in the bottom 1% 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

Nearby Counties With Similar Federal Spending

Counties with per-capita federal spending closest to Eastern District's $3,511 - prioritizing American Samoa peers first.

Western District

American Samoa

$6,206 per capita

$197.5M total

Manu'A District

American Samoa

$6,468 per capita

$5.4M total

Saipan Municipality

Northern Mariana Islands

$3,491 per capita

$151.5M total

Utah County

Utah

$3,532 per capita

$2.3B total

Cataño Municipio

Puerto Rico

$3,555 per capita

$82.3M total

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Nationwide counties with similar per-capita or total federal spending

Two peer sets outside American Samoa - 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 ($3,511 here).

Saipan Municipality, Northern Mariana Islands · $3,491
Utah County, Utah · $3,532
Cataño Municipio, Puerto Rico · $3,555
Juana Díaz Municipio, Puerto Rico · $3,556

Similar total federal spending

Nearest out-of-state counties by total obligations ($59.9M here).

Colfax County, Nebraska · $59.9M
Bullock County, Alabama · $59.8M
Nantucket County, Massachusetts · $60.2M
Comerío Municipio, Puerto Rico · $60.7M

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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Eastern District

How Eastern District Compares

Per-capita federal spending: Eastern District vs. American Samoa and the nation

Leading Federal Agencies in Eastern District

Top awarding agencies in Eastern District, FY2025

How Eastern District Ranks Nationally

Nearby Counties With Similar Federal Spending

Nationwide counties with similar per-capita or total federal spending

Similar per-capita spending

Similar total federal spending