Colorado vs Texas on USAspending: $8.1B vs $72.7B

An $8.1B Rocky Mountain file on 91,723 awards

Texas’s $72.7B stacked stock sits well above Colorado’s $8.1B. Census population leans Texas: 31,290,831 versus 5,957,493. Intensity follows. $686.1 per capita versus $97.34 is a wide gap. Cite those packet ratios beside the Census counts; they are not a second copy of $72.7B and $8.1B.

Award volume is thin on the Colorado side. 91,723 awards versus 530,634 is a much thinner action log. Row count is not average award size. Cite USAspending.gov. Do not invent a mean from 91,723 or 530,634.

Nonscheduled chartered freight air versus pharmaceutical preparation

Colorado’s lead NAICS is nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation. Texas’s is pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing. A charter-freight-air peak is a first read on Colorado’s $8.1B mix. A drug-manufacturing peak is a first read on Texas’s $72.7B mix. Cargo flights and pharmaceuticals are not the same label.

The 91,723 Colorado awards and 530,634 Texas awards include many actions outside those two industries. Use the Colorado and Texas state hubs for agencies and recipients. Both peaks are USAspending.gov obligation mixes. Outlays are not in the packet.

Colorado’s 91,723 awards and $579.9M FY2026 slice sit on 5,957,493 residents. Texas’s 530,634 awards and $21.5B sit on 31,290,831. Nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation versus pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing remains the mix contrast on $8.1B and $72.7B. $97.34 versus $686.1 is the intensity ranking. Cite USAspending.gov.

FY2026: Colorado’s $579.9M versus Texas’s $21.5B

Fiscal year 2026 obligations are $579.9M in Colorado and $21.5B in Texas. Recency preserves Texas’s stacked dollar lead. Treat the year as a recency slice of obligations, not as Treasury cash already paid.

Do not divide $579.9M or $21.5B by 91,723 or 530,634 all-years awards. Spending per capita of $97.34 and $686.1 already sits beside Census counts of 5,957,493 and 31,290,831. Cite USAspending.gov for both cuts.

What $97.34 looks like on 5,957,493 residents

Colorado’s $8.1B on 5,957,493 people produces $97.34 per capita, cooler than Texas’s $686.1 on 31,290,831. The charter-freight-air peak sits on that cooler ratio and on only 91,723 awards. The $579.9M FY2026 slice is the recency cut on the smaller stock.

Texas’s pharmaceutical peak, 530,634 awards, and $21.5B latest-year amount remain the larger file. Read a Mountain West air-freight peak against a national-scale pharmaceutical file. Keep every dollar figure labeled as a USAspending.gov obligation.

How to read Colorado versus Texas

Read Texas first on stacked dollars ($72.7B vs $8.1B), population (31,290,831 vs 5,957,493), awards (530,634 vs 91,723), spending per capita ($686.1 vs $97.34), and FY2026 ($21.5B vs $579.9M). Note nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation versus pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing.

The comparison hub holds the tables. The Colorado and Texas hubs hold agencies and recipients. Outlays are a different series. Cite USAspending.gov. Keep $97.34 and $686.1 labeled as Census-based obligation ratios.

Charter freight air on a thin 91,723-award log

Colorado’s nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation peak sits on $8.1B and only 91,723 awards. Texas’s pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing peak sits on $72.7B and 530,634 awards. Population of 5,957,493 versus 31,290,831 and spending per capita of $97.34 versus $686.1 still favor Texas on intensity. FY2026 of $579.9M versus $21.5B preserves the stacked ranking. Cargo flights and pharmaceuticals are not interchangeable labels.

Cite USAspending.gov. A thin Mountain West award log is not a matched dollar file. Outlays are not in the packet. Use the comparison hub for tables. Use the Colorado and Texas hubs for agencies and recipients. Do not divide $8.1B or $72.7B by 91,723 or 530,634.

Questions

Does Colorado or Texas have more federal spending?

Texas leads stacked USAspending.gov obligations $72.7B to Colorado’s $8.1B, spending per capita $686.1 to $97.34, awards 530,634 to 91,723, and FY2026 obligations $21.5B to $579.9M. Population is 5,957,493 in Colorado and 31,290,831 in Texas.

What industries lead in Colorado and Texas?

Colorado’s top industry is nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation. Texas’s is pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing. Those labels are the largest NAICS slices on $8.1B and $72.7B. Award counts are 91,723 in Colorado and 530,634 in Texas.

Is Colorado’s award count thin relative to its dollar file?

Colorado records 91,723 awards on an $8.1B stacked stock. Texas records 530,634 awards on $72.7B. These figures are USAspending.gov obligations, not outlays. Row count is not average award size. The packet does not publish a mean.

Are Colorado vs Texas figures Treasury outlays?

No. The $8.1B and $72.7B totals, and FY2026 amounts of $579.9M and $21.5B, are USAspending.gov obligations. Outlays are cash payments and can lag. Spending per capita ($97.34 vs $686.1) uses Census population where present. This packet does not publish outlays or average award size.