How much federal spending did Western District, American Samoa receive?

Western District received $197.5M in total federal spending during Fiscal Year 2025. This equates to $6,206 per capita for the county's population of 31,819.

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

Western District's $6,206 sits 60.3% below the $15,647 national average (-47.3% vs American Samoa).

What is the population of Western District, American Samoa?

Census estimates put Western District at 31,819 residents, the denominator behind a low $6,206 intensity.

Western District

$6,206 per resident in FY2025 ($197.5M total) - low intensity.

American Samoa · FIPS 60050

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Data updated September 2025

In FY2025, Western District in American Samoa received $197.5M in federal spending - $6,206 per capita for a population of 31,819. This is 60.3% below the national average and 47.3% below the American Samoa average. The leading federal agency by spending share is Social Security Administration. By per-capita federal spending, it ranks #2 of 3 American Samoa counties.

Total spending: $197.5M
Per capita: $6,206
vs. national avg: -60.3%
Fiscal year: FY2025

Low per-resident intensity

Western District residents see a thin $6,206 each (#2873 of 3,224 per capita).

Low per-resident intensity

Western District posts below-median federal per-capita spending nationally, with spending led by Social Security Administration, among several agencies.

National per-capita rank: Top 90%; of 3,232 US counties
Per-capita spending: $6,206
Leading agency: Social Security Administration; 42.9% of tracked spending
American Samoa rank: #2 of 3

Understanding Western District's federal spending

Low-intensity per-resident context

According to USASpending.gov, the official federal award-transaction dataset, Western District in American Samoa received $197.5M in federal spending in Fiscal Year 2025, equivalent to $6,206 per resident across a Census-estimated population of 31,819 (FIPS 60050). This per-capita intensity is 60.3% below the $15,647 national average.

Inside American Samoa ($586.0M statewide), Western District's low $6,206 sits 47.3% below the $11,788 state average.

By per-capita federal spending alone, Western District ranks #2 of 3 American Samoa counties.

Spending concentration

A single county rarely dominates a state's federal-spending total, but Western District is the exception here, pulling in 33.7% of every dollar American Samoa received statewide, a concentration usually tied to a major base, medical center, or federal facility.

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 Western 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 Western 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 Western District Compares

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

Population: 31,819 (U.S. Census Bureau estimate) - the denominator behind the per-capita figures above.

Leading Federal Agencies in Western District

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 $167.9M (85%) of Western District's $197.5M 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 - Western 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
Social Security Administration	$72.1M	42.9%
Environmental Protection Agency	$48.2M	28.7%
Department of Education	$47.6M	28.3%

How Western District Ranks Nationally

Per-capita federal spending vs. all US counties

All 3,232 US counties, FY2025

$6,206 Among the lowest higher than 10% 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 Western District's $6,206 - prioritizing American Samoa peers first.

Manu'A District

American Samoa

$6,468 per capita

$5.4M total

Eastern District

American Samoa

$3,511 per capita

$59.9M total

Bullitt County

Kentucky

$6,206 per capita

$510.3M total

Bradley County

Arkansas

$6,205 per capita

$65.4M total

Troup County

Georgia

$6,210 per capita

$431.1M 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 ($6,206 here).

Similar total federal spending

Nearest out-of-state counties by total obligations ($197.5M 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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Western District

How Western District Compares

Per-capita federal spending: Western District vs. American Samoa and the nation

Leading Federal Agencies in Western District

Top awarding agencies in Western District, FY2025

How Western 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