PlainSpending

Guam

$27,948 per resident in FY2025 ($4.3B total) - high intensity.

Guam · FIPS 66010

In FY2025, Guam in Guam posted a dense absolute book of $4.3B ($27,948 per capita across 153,836 residents). That is 78.6% above the national average and 11.2% below the Guam average. Department of Defense leads tracked agency share.

Total spending
$4.3B
Per capita
$27,948
vs. national avg
+78.6%
Fiscal year
FY2025

High per-resident intensity

Per-capita intensity is the standout: $27,948 puts Guam at #65 of 3,224.

High per-resident intensity

Guam posts top-5% federal per-capita spending nationally, with spending concentrated almost entirely in Department of Defense.

National per-capita rank
Top 2%
of 3,232 US counties
Per-capita spending
$27,948
Leading agency
Department of Defense
86.1% of tracked spending

How Guam Compares

Per-capita federal spending: Guam vs. Guam and the nation

Guam$27,948Guam avg$31,490National avg$15,647
Source: USASpending.gov FY2025 + U.S. Census Bureau population estimates.

Population: 153,836 (U.S. Census Bureau estimate) - the denominator behind the per-capita figures above.

Leading Federal Agencies in Guam

Top awarding agencies in Guam, FY2025

Department of Defense$3.3BSocial Security Administrati…$345.3MDepartment of Veterans Affai…$185.5M
Source: USASpending.gov FY2025, aggregated by awarding agency.

Among the 3,224 US counties with agency-level spending data, Department of Defense is a comparatively unusual leading agency, topping only 2.6% 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 $3.8B (88.6%) of Guam's $4.3B 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 - Guam 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 Defense $3.3B 86.1%
Social Security Administration $345.3M 9.1%
Department of Veterans Affairs $185.5M 4.9%

How Guam Ranks Nationally

Per-capita federal spending vs. all US counties

All 3,232 US counties, FY2025

$27,948 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 Guam's $27,948 - prioritizing Guam peers first.

Mineral County

Colorado

$27,994 per capita

$24.2M total

Southeast Fairbanks Census Area

Alaska

$28,074 per capita

$191.1M total

La Crosse County

Wisconsin

$28,100 per capita

$3.4B total

Benton County

Washington

$27,737 per capita

$5.7B total

Garfield County

Montana

$27,730 per capita

$32.5M total

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Nationwide counties with similar per-capita or total federal spending

Two peer sets outside Guam - 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 ($27,948 here).

Similar total federal spending

Nearest out-of-state counties by total obligations ($4.3B 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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