California vs Louisiana on USAspending: $39.5B against $4.7B

Shipyards on a $4.7B Gulf file

Louisiana’s lead NAICS is ship building and repairing. That yard label sits on $4.7B against California’s $39.5B commercial-construction peak. A shipyard mix is a different federal buying pattern than a facilities mix. The packet names those peaks; it does not give shares or yard lists.

Louisiana files 72,577 awards. California files 639,340. Louisiana’s row count is about 11 percent of California’s; its dollar stock is about 12 percent. The Gulf tape is neither sparse nor California-scale. Use the California and Louisiana state hubs for agencies and recipients. Cite USAspending.gov.

FY2026 of $1.2B is a heavy Louisiana cut

Fiscal year 2026 obligations are $5.3B in California and $1.2B in Louisiana. Louisiana’s latest-year amount is a large slice of $4.7B. Recency is doing more work on the Louisiana side than the stacked total alone shows. California’s $5.3B remains the larger latest-year figure.

Treat FY2026 as a recency slice of obligations, not Treasury cash. Do not divide $5.3B or $1.2B by 639,340 or 72,577 all-years awards. Spending per capita of $135.64 and $268.17 already uses Census denominators of 39,431,263 and 4,597,740.

The $268.17 inversion

Louisiana’s 4,597,740 residents sit on a $268.17 per-capita reading. California’s 39,431,263 residents sit on $135.64. The packet reports those intensity figures next to stacked stocks of $4.7B and $39.5B. Louisiana is the intensity leader. California is the scale leader.

Keep those per-capita lines labeled as Census-based packet figures on USAspending.gov obligations. They are not outlays per resident. Place-of-performance for ship work can concentrate at yards. The packet does not reallocate.

Yards versus federal buildings

Ship building and repairing and commercial and institutional building construction are different NAICS families. Readers should not treat Louisiana’s $4.7B as a smaller California. The stacks differ in size, intensity, and lead industry. The 72,577 and 639,340 rows include many codes beyond those peaks.

Outlays are a different USAspending.gov series. This page stays on obligations: $39.5B versus $4.7B stacked, and $5.3B versus $1.2B in FY2026.

Gulf yards and a $1.2B latest-year slice

Louisiana’s ship-building-and-repairing peak on $4.7B with 72,577 awards is a Gulf yard signature. The recency fact is FY2026 of $1.2B — a large slice of $4.7B — against California’s $5.3B on $39.5B. Louisiana’s stacked stock is much smaller. Its latest-year share of that stock is heavy. Spending per capita of $268.17 on 4,597,740 residents leads California’s $135.64 on 39,431,263. Scale remains California’s. Intensity and recency-share are Louisiana’s.

Cite USAspending.gov for obligations. Outlays are not listed. Do not divide $1.2B by 72,577 all-years awards. The $268.17 and $135.64 readings already use Census denominators against the stacked stocks of $4.7B and $39.5B. California files 639,340 awards. Louisiana’s tape is thinner in rows and heavier per resident.

Place-of-performance for ship work can concentrate at yards. The packet does not reallocate suppliers. Use the California and Louisiana hubs for agencies and recipients. The comparison hub holds the $39.5B versus $4.7B tables. Keep commercial construction versus ship building as mix tags. They do not override the dollar ranking or the intensity ranking.

Louisiana’s 72,577 awards on 4,597,740 residents under $268.17 per capita describe a shipyard-led file that wins intensity and posts a $1.2B FY2026 slice on $4.7B. California’s $39.5B, 639,340 awards, $135.64 on 39,431,263 residents, and $5.3B FY2026 remain the scale side. Ship building and repairing is a mix tag. Cite USAspending.gov. Outlays are not listed.

How to read California versus Louisiana

Read California first on stacked dollars ($39.5B vs $4.7B) and award count (639,340 vs 72,577). Read Louisiana first on spending per capita ($268.17 vs $135.64), on the ship-building peak, and on a $1.2B FY2026 slice against California’s $5.3B.

The comparison hub holds the tables. The California and Louisiana hubs hold agencies and recipients. Outlays are not listed.

Louisiana’s 4,597,740 residents and California’s 39,431,263 residents set the $268.17 versus $135.64 denominators on $4.7B versus $39.5B. Award counts of 72,577 versus 639,340 and FY2026 of $1.2B versus $5.3B complete the comparison. Ship building versus commercial construction remains the mix contrast. Cite USAspending.gov. Outlays are a different series.

Questions

Does California or Louisiana have more federal spending?

California leads stacked USAspending.gov obligations $39.5B to Louisiana’s $4.7B. Louisiana leads spending per capita, $268.17 versus $135.64, on 4,597,740 residents against California’s 39,431,263. Award counts are 639,340 in California and 72,577 in Louisiana. FY2026 obligations are $5.3B in California and $1.2B in Louisiana.

Is Louisiana’s FY2026 figure large relative to its stock?

Louisiana’s FY2026 obligations are $1.2B on a $4.7B stacked stock. California’s FY2026 obligations are $5.3B on $39.5B. Recency still ranks California first. Louisiana’s latest-year slice is a sizable share of its own stock. These figures are USAspending.gov obligations, not outlays.

What industries lead in California and Louisiana?

California’s top industry is commercial and institutional building construction. Louisiana’s is ship building and repairing. Those labels are the largest NAICS slices on $39.5B and $4.7B. Award counts are 639,340 in California and 72,577 in Louisiana. Those peaks are mix labels on the stacked stocks, not inventories of every award.

Are California vs Louisiana figures Treasury outlays?

No. The $39.5B and $4.7B totals, and FY2026 amounts of $5.3B and $1.2B, are USAspending.gov obligations. Outlays are cash payments and can lag. Spending per capita ($135.64 vs $268.17) uses Census population where present. Award counts in the packet are all-years totals, not a single fiscal year’s actions.