Montana vs Texas

A $1.2B construction-led Northern Plains file

Montana’s lead NAICS is commercial and institutional building construction. That facilities peak sits on $1.2B against Texas’s $72.7B pharmaceutical-preparation peak. Construction awards can be lumpy: a few federal buildings or base projects can move a year. The packet does not split those projects out. It only names the peak.

Montana files 21,487 awards. Texas files 530,634. The Northern Plains tape is thin in rows and dollars. Use the Montana and Texas state hubs for agencies and recipients. Cite USAspending.gov for the obligation mix.

Montana’s $1.2B construction-led stock on 1,137,233 residents is a Northern Plains facilities file; Texas’s $72.7B pharmaceutical-preparation stock on 31,290,831 residents is a manufacturing-scale file. FY2026 of $212.9M versus $21.5B does not reorder that ranking.

$187.18 per capita on 1.1 million people

Montana’s $187.18 on 1,137,233 residents is warmer than several larger states in this slice and still well below Texas’s $686.1 on 31,290,831. Montana’s Census count is about 4 percent of Texas’s; Montana’s $1.2B is about 2 percent of Texas’s $72.7B. Dollars lag population. Intensity follows.

The per-capita figures are Census-based packet figures on USAspending.gov obligations. They are not outlays per resident. Place-of-performance for construction can sit at a job site while contractors are headquartered elsewhere. The packet does not reallocate.

Questions

Does Montana or Texas have more federal spending?

Texas leads stacked USAspending.gov obligations $72.7B to Montana’s $1.2B. Texas also leads spending per capita, $686.1 versus $187.18, on 31,290,831 residents against Montana’s 1,137,233. Award counts are 530,634 in Texas and 21,487 in Montana. FY2026 obligations are $21.5B in Texas and $212.9M in Montana.

What industries lead in Montana and Texas?

Montana’s top industry is commercial and institutional building construction. Texas’s is pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing. Those labels are the largest NAICS slices on $1.2B and $72.7B. Award counts are 21,487 in Montana and 530,634 in Texas. Those peaks are mix labels on the stacked stocks, not inventories of every award.

Why is Montana’s per-capita figure below Texas’s?

The packet reports $187.18 per capita in Montana on 1,137,233 residents and $686.1 in Texas on 31,290,831. Stacked stocks are $1.2B versus $72.7B, a larger multiple than the population gap. Award counts are 21,487 versus 530,634. These figures are USAspending.gov obligations, not outlays.

Are Montana vs Texas figures Treasury outlays?

No. The $1.2B and $72.7B totals, and FY2026 amounts of $212.9M and $21.5B, are USAspending.gov obligations. Outlays are cash payments and can lag. Spending per capita ($187.18 vs $686.1) uses Census population where present. Award counts in the packet are all-years totals, not a single fiscal year’s actions.