How much federal spending did New Haven County, Connecticut receive?

New Haven County posted a thin absolute book of $-5.6M in FY2025 ($-6 per capita; population 864,835).

How does New Haven County's per capita spending compare to the national average?

New Haven County's $-6 sits 100.0% below the $15,647 national average (-100.0% vs Connecticut).

What is the population of New Haven County, Connecticut?

Census estimates put New Haven County at 864,835 residents, the denominator behind a low $-6 intensity.

New Haven County

$-5.6M in FY2025 federal spending, $-6 per capita (-100.0% vs national).

Connecticut · FIPS 09009

Compiled by PlainSpending

Data updated September 2025

In FY2025, New Haven County carried a thin absolute book of $-5.6M - $-6 per capita for 864,835 residents. Intensity sits 100.0% below the national average (-100.0% vs Connecticut). Per-capita rank in-state: #3/8.

Total spending: $-5.6M
Per capita: $-6
vs. national avg: -100.0%
Fiscal year: FY2025

Well below national average

New Haven County runs 100.0% below the $15,647 national average.

Understanding New Haven County's federal spending

Below-average intensity context

USASpending.gov (Treasury) records only $-5.6M in FY2025 place-of-performance awards for New Haven County, Connecticut (FIPS 09009) - a thin absolute book at $-6 for 864,835 residents. Intensity sits 100.0% below the $15,647 national average.

Inside Connecticut ($153.6B statewide), New Haven County's low $-6 sits 100.0% below the $42,600 state average.

By per-capita federal spending alone, New Haven County ranks #3 of 8 Connecticut counties.

Spending concentration

Set against Connecticut's full statewide total, New Haven County's piece works out to a modest -0.00%, 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 New Haven County, 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 New Haven County 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 New Haven County Compares

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

Population: 864,835 (U.S. Census Bureau estimate) - the denominator behind the per-capita figures above.

Nearby Counties With Similar Federal Spending

Counties with per-capita federal spending closest to New Haven County's $-6 - prioritizing Connecticut peers first.

Fairfield County

Connecticut

$-13 per capita

$-12.3M total

Windham County

Connecticut

$-13 per capita

$-1.5M total

Tolland County

Connecticut

$3 per capita

$487.8K total

New London County

Connecticut

$6 per capita

$1.5M total

Litchfield County

Connecticut

$-38 per capita

$-7.0M total

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Nationwide counties with similar per-capita or total federal spending

Two peer sets outside Connecticut - 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 here).

Luna County, New Mexico · $11
Manassas Park City, Virginia · $2,268
Loíza Municipio, Puerto Rico · $2,588
Río Grande Municipio, Puerto Rico · $2,600

Similar total federal spending

Nearest out-of-state counties by total obligations ($-5.6M 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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Compiled by PlainSpending, Federal Spending Editorial Process