Alaska vs Texas

The $532.17 reading is the Alaska story

Alaska’s 740,133 residents are about 2 percent of Texas’s 31,290,831. Alaska’s $3.5B is about 5 percent of Texas’s $72.7B. That is why per capita of $532.17 versus $686.1 is a close intensity pairing even though the stacked totals are not. Alaska is a small Census file with a heavy obligation load per resident. Texas is a large Census file that is still heavier per resident, but not by the same multiple as the dollar stock.

Award counts run with scale, not with intensity. Alaska files 25,423 awards; Texas files 530,634. Alaska’s actions are few. Its dollars per resident are not. The 25,423-row tape sits on $3.5B beside the $532.17 reading. Texas’s 530,634 rows sit on $72.7B beside $686.1.

Building construction in Alaska, drug manufacturing in Texas

Alaska’s lead NAICS is commercial and institutional building construction. Texas’s lead NAICS is pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing. A construction peak on a $3.5B remote-state file often reflects facilities, bases, and federal building work. A pharmaceutical-preparation peak on a $72.7B file is a manufacturing mix label. Neither peak is the whole statewide aggregate.

The 25,423 Alaska awards and 530,634 Texas awards include many actions outside those labels. Use the Alaska and Texas state hubs for agencies and recipients. Both peaks are USAspending.gov obligation mixes. Cite USAspending.gov; do not read them as outlay mixes.

Questions

Does Alaska or Texas have more federal spending?

Texas leads stacked USAspending.gov obligations $72.7B to Alaska’s $3.5B. Spending per capita is closer: $686.1 in Texas versus $532.17 in Alaska, on 31,290,831 residents against 740,133. Award counts are 530,634 in Texas and 25,423 in Alaska. FY2026 obligations are $21.5B in Texas and $393.9M in Alaska.

Why is Alaska’s per-capita figure near Texas’s?

The packet reports $532.17 per capita in Alaska on 740,133 residents and $686.1 in Texas on 31,290,831. Alaska’s $3.5B stock is small in dollars but heavy relative to its Census count. Texas’s $72.7B is larger on both dollars and people. Award counts are 25,423 versus 530,634. These figures are USAspending.gov obligations, not outlays.

What industries lead in Alaska and Texas?

Alaska’s top industry is commercial and institutional building construction. Texas’s is pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing. Those labels are the largest NAICS slices on $3.5B and $72.7B. Award counts are 25,423 in Alaska and 530,634 in Texas. Those peaks are mix labels on the stacked stocks, not inventories of every award.

Are Alaska vs Texas figures Treasury outlays?

No. The $3.5B and $72.7B totals, and FY2026 amounts of $393.9M and $21.5B, are USAspending.gov obligations. Outlays are cash payments and can lag. Spending per capita ($532.17 vs $686.1) uses Census population where present. Award counts in the packet are all-years totals, not a single fiscal year’s actions.