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

St. John Island posted a thin absolute book of $21.7M in FY2025 ($5,589 per capita; population 3,881).

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

St. John Island's $5,589 sits 64.3% below the $15,647 national average (-95.5% vs U.S. Virgin Islands).

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

Census estimates put St. John Island at 3,881 residents, the denominator behind a low $5,589 intensity.

St. John Island

$21.7M in FY2025 - a thin absolute book at $5,589 per capita.

U.S. Virgin Islands · FIPS 78020

Compiled by PlainSpending

Data updated September 2025

In FY2025, St. John Island carried a thin absolute book of $21.7M - $5,589 per capita for 3,881 residents. Intensity sits 64.3% below the national average (-95.5% vs U.S. Virgin Islands). Leading tracked agency: Social Security Administration. Per-capita rank in-state: #3/3.

Total spending: $21.7M
Per capita: $5,589
vs. national avg: -64.3%
Fiscal year: FY2025

Thin absolute federal book

St. John Island is a light absolute book: #3140 of 3,224 with only $21.7M.

Thin absolute federal book

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

National per-capita rank: Top 95%; of 3,232 US counties
Per-capita spending: $5,589
Leading agency: Social Security Administration; 91.7% of tracked spending
U.S. Virgin Islands rank: #3 of 3

Understanding St. John Island's federal spending

Thin absolute book vs. peers

USASpending.gov (Treasury) records only $21.7M in FY2025 place-of-performance awards for St. John Island, U.S. Virgin Islands (FIPS 78020) - a thin absolute book at $5,589 for 3,881 residents. Intensity sits 64.3% below the $15,647 national average.

Inside U.S. Virgin Islands ($10.7B statewide), St. John Island's low $5,589 sits 95.5% below the $123,194 state average.

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

Spending concentration

Set against U.S. Virgin Islands's full statewide total, St. John Island's piece works out to a modest 0.20%, 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 St. John 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. John 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. John Island Compares

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

Population: 3,881 (U.S. Census Bureau estimate) - the denominator behind the per-capita figures above.

Leading Federal Agencies in St. John 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 $21.7M (99.9%) of St. John Island's $21.7M in total tracked federal spending.

All 3 individually-tracked agencies are shown above - St. John 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	$19.9M	91.7%
Department of the Interior	$1.7M	7.9%
Department of Veterans Affairs	$96.4K	0.4%

How St. John Island Ranks Nationally

Per-capita federal spending vs. all US counties

All 3,232 US counties, FY2025

$5,589 Among the lowest higher than 5% 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 St. John Island's $5,589 - prioritizing U.S. Virgin Islands peers first.

St. Croix Island

U.S. Virgin Islands

$6,764 per capita

$277.4M total

St. Thomas Island

U.S. Virgin Islands

$237,831 per capita

$10.1B total

Hamilton County

Indiana

$5,591 per capita

$1.9B total

Oldham County

Kentucky

$5,593 per capita

$378.1M total

Lake County

Tennessee

$5,585 per capita

$39.1M 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 ($5,589 here).

Similar total federal spending

Nearest out-of-state counties by total obligations ($21.7M 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. John Island

How St. John Island Compares

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

Leading Federal Agencies in St. John Island

Top awarding agencies in St. John Island, FY2025

How St. John 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