How much federal spending did Manu'A District, American Samoa receive?

Manu'A District posted a thin absolute book of $5.4M in FY2025 ($6,468 per capita; population 832).

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

Manu'A District's $6,468 sits 58.7% below the $15,647 national average (-45.1% vs American Samoa).

What is the population of Manu'A District, American Samoa?

Census estimates put Manu'A District at 832 residents, the denominator behind a low $6,468 intensity.

Manu'A District

$5.4M in FY2025 - a thin absolute book at $6,468 per capita.

American Samoa · FIPS 60020

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Data updated September 2025

In FY2025, Manu'A District carried a thin absolute book of $5.4M - $6,468 per capita for 832 residents. Intensity sits 58.7% below the national average (-45.1% vs American Samoa). Leading tracked agency: Department of the Interior. Per-capita rank in-state: #1/3.

Total spending: $5.4M
Per capita: $6,468
vs. national avg: -58.7%
Fiscal year: FY2025

Thin absolute federal book

Manu'A District is a light absolute book: #3208 of 3,224 with only $5.4M.

Thin absolute federal book

Manu'A District posts below-median federal per-capita spending nationally, with spending dominated by Department of the Interior.

National per-capita rank: Top 86%; of 3,232 US counties
Per-capita spending: $6,468
Leading agency: Department of the Interior; 50.7% of tracked spending
American Samoa rank: #1 of 3

Understanding Manu'A District's federal spending

Thin absolute book vs. peers

USASpending.gov (Treasury) records only $5.4M in FY2025 place-of-performance awards for Manu'A District, American Samoa (FIPS 60020) - a thin absolute book at $6,468 for 832 residents. Intensity sits 58.7% below the $15,647 national average.

Inside American Samoa ($586.0M statewide), Manu'A District's low $6,468 sits 45.1% below the $11,788 state average.

By per-capita federal spending alone, Manu'A District ranks #1 of 3 American Samoa counties.

Spending concentration

Set against American Samoa's full statewide total, Manu'A District's piece works out to a modest 0.92%, unsurprising for a county its size relative to bigger recipients elsewhere in the state.

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 Manu'A 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 Manu'A 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 Manu'A District Compares

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

Population: 832 (U.S. Census Bureau estimate) - the denominator behind the per-capita figures above.

Leading Federal Agencies in Manu'A District

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

Among the 3,224 US counties with agency-level spending data, Department of the Interior is a comparatively unusual leading agency, topping only 0.6% 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 $5.4M (100%) of Manu'A District's $5.4M in total tracked federal spending.

All 3 individually-tracked agencies are shown above - Manu'A 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 the Interior	$2.7M	50.7%
Department of Justice	$2.6M	47.7%
Department of Transportation	$81.9K	1.5%

How Manu'A District Ranks Nationally

Per-capita federal spending vs. all US counties

All 3,232 US counties, FY2025

$6,468 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

Nearby Counties With Similar Federal Spending

Counties with per-capita federal spending closest to Manu'A District's $6,468 - prioritizing American Samoa peers first.

Western District

American Samoa

$6,206 per capita

$197.5M total

Eastern District

American Samoa

$3,511 per capita

$59.9M total

Boone County

Kentucky

$6,469 per capita

$879.5M total

Lyon County

Kansas

$6,467 per capita

$208.1M total

Noble County

Indiana

$6,470 per capita

$307.0M 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 ($6,468 here).

Similar total federal spending

Nearest out-of-state counties by total obligations ($5.4M 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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Manu'A District

How Manu'A District Compares

Per-capita federal spending: Manu'A District vs. American Samoa and the nation

Leading Federal Agencies in Manu'A District

Top awarding agencies in Manu'A District, FY2025

How Manu'A 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