How much federal spending did St. Croix Island, U.S. Virgin Islands receive?

St. Croix Island received $277.4M in total federal spending during Fiscal Year 2025. This equates to $6,764 per capita for the county's population of 41,004.

How does St. Croix Island's per capita spending compare to the national average?

St. Croix Island's $6,764 sits 56.8% below the $15,647 national average (-94.5% vs U.S. Virgin Islands).

What is the population of St. Croix Island, U.S. Virgin Islands?

Census estimates put St. Croix Island at 41,004 residents, the denominator behind a low $6,764 intensity.

St. Croix Island

$6,764 per resident in FY2025 ($277.4M total) - low intensity.

U.S. Virgin Islands · FIPS 78010

Compiled by PlainSpending

Data updated September 2025

In FY2025, St. Croix Island in U.S. Virgin Islands received $277.4M in federal spending - $6,764 per capita for a population of 41,004. This is 56.8% below the national average and 94.5% below the U.S. Virgin Islands average. The leading federal agency by spending share is Social Security Administration. By per-capita federal spending, it ranks #2 of 3 U.S. Virgin Islands counties.

Total spending: $277.4M
Per capita: $6,764
vs. national avg: -56.8%
Fiscal year: FY2025

Low per-resident intensity

St. Croix Island residents see a thin $6,764 each (#2582 of 3,224 per capita).

Low per-resident intensity

St. Croix Island posts below-median federal per-capita spending nationally, with spending concentrated almost entirely in Social Security Administration.

National per-capita rank: Top 81%; of 3,232 US counties
Per-capita spending: $6,764
Leading agency: Social Security Administration; 87.8% of tracked spending
U.S. Virgin Islands rank: #2 of 3

Understanding St. Croix Island's federal spending

Low-intensity per-resident context

According to USASpending.gov, the official federal award-transaction dataset, St. Croix Island in U.S. Virgin Islands received $277.4M in federal spending in Fiscal Year 2025, equivalent to $6,764 per resident across a Census-estimated population of 41,004 (FIPS 78010). This per-capita intensity is 56.8% below the $15,647 national average.

Inside U.S. Virgin Islands ($10.7B statewide), St. Croix Island's low $6,764 sits 94.5% below the $123,194 state average.

By per-capita federal spending alone, St. Croix Island ranks #2 of 3 U.S. Virgin Islands counties.

Spending concentration

Weighed against the other 2 counties competing for the same statewide total, St. Croix Island pulls in a respectable 2.6% share of every federal dollar U.S. Virgin Islands received.

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 St. Croix Island, 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 St. Croix Island 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 St. Croix Island Compares

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

Population: 41,004 (U.S. Census Bureau estimate) - the denominator behind the per-capita figures above.

Leading Federal Agencies in St. Croix Island

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 $242.1M (87.3%) of St. Croix Island's $277.4M 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 - St. Croix Island 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	$212.7M	87.8%
Department of Housing and Urban Development	$16.1M	6.7%
Department of Transportation	$13.3M	5.5%

How St. Croix Island Ranks Nationally

Per-capita federal spending vs. all US counties

All 3,232 US counties, FY2025

$6,764 Among the lowest higher than 19% of 3,224 US counties

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

Each bar is a $1K-wide band; taller bars hold more US counties. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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

Nearby Counties With Similar Federal Spending

Counties with per-capita federal spending closest to St. Croix Island's $6,764 - prioritizing U.S. Virgin Islands peers first.

St. John Island

U.S. Virgin Islands

$5,589 per capita

$21.7M total

St. Thomas Island

U.S. Virgin Islands

$237,831 per capita

$10.1B total

Green County

Kentucky

$6,766 per capita

$75.2M total

Cumberland County

New Jersey

$6,767 per capita

$1.0B total

Brown County

Ohio

$6,759 per capita

$295.2M total

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Nationwide counties with similar per-capita or total federal spending

Two peer sets outside U.S. Virgin Islands - 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 ($6,764 here).

Similar total federal spending

Nearest out-of-state counties by total obligations ($277.4M 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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St. Croix Island

How St. Croix Island Compares

Per-capita federal spending: St. Croix Island vs. U.S. Virgin Islands and the nation

Leading Federal Agencies in St. Croix Island

Top awarding agencies in St. Croix Island, FY2025

How St. Croix Island 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