Kansas vs New Mexico on USAspending: $2.91B vs $3.93B

New Mexico’s $3.93B against Kansas’s busier, cooler file

New Mexico’s $3.93B stacked total is about 1.35 times Kansas’s $2.91B. Kansas has the larger Census count, 2,970,606 versus 2,130,256, about 1.39 times. Intensity therefore moves with the dollar lead rather than with population: $945.82 per capita in New Mexico and $67.40 in Kansas. That is one of the wider per-capita gaps in this comparison set, and it is a packet ratio of USAspending.gov obligations beside those Census figures.

Kansas still wins the row count, 71,423 awards against 19,233. A thicker Kansas file does not overtake New Mexico on dollars or on the per-capita ratio. Rows and dollars are separate columns. The $2.91B Kansas stock is real; it is simply smaller, and it is spread across more people and more actions.

Label $945.82 and $67.40 as obligation-based packet figures. They are not outlays per resident and they are not a claim about state budgets.

Computer systems design versus commercial construction

Kansas’s lead NAICS is computer systems design services. New Mexico’s lead NAICS is commercial and institutional building construction. Systems-design work can generate many discrete actions, which is consistent with Kansas’s 71,423 awards on $2.91B. Construction can concentrate large obligation amounts, which is consistent with New Mexico’s 19,233 awards on $3.93B.

Those peaks sit on the stacked totals; they do not exhaust either state’s mix. The Kansas and New Mexico state hubs list agencies and recipients. Both peaks are USAspending.gov obligation mixes.

FY2026: $2.01B in New Mexico, $200.2M in Kansas

Fiscal year 2026 obligations are $2.01B in New Mexico and $200.2M in Kansas. Recency is not a close race. New Mexico’s FY2026 figure is about 10 times Kansas’s $200.2M, a much wider relative gap than the all-years $3.93B versus $2.91B. A large share of New Mexico’s stacked stock sits in the latest fiscal year in this packet.

Treat $2.01B and $200.2M as obligation recency, not as Treasury cash. Do not divide them by the all-years award counts of 19,233 and 71,423. Spending per capita of $945.82 and $67.40 already uses Census counts of 2,130,256 and 2,970,606.

71,423 Kansas awards do not close the intensity gap

Kansas files about 3.7 times as many awards as New Mexico (71,423 vs 19,233) and has the larger population (2,970,606 vs 2,130,256). New Mexico still leads the stock ($3.93B vs $2.91B) and the per-capita ratio ($945.82 vs $67.40). A busy Plains file and a concentrated New Mexico file can coexist on the same obligation definition.

Readers who rank only by award volume will put Kansas ahead. Readers who rank by dollars or by dollars per resident will put New Mexico ahead. The packet reports all four measures so those rankings stay visible.

How to read Kansas versus New Mexico

Read New Mexico first on stacked stock ($3.93B vs $2.91B), spending per capita ($945.82 vs $67.40), and FY2026 ($2.01B vs $200.2M). Read Kansas first on awards (71,423 vs 19,233) and population (2,970,606 vs 2,130,256). Note computer systems design versus commercial construction. All cuts are obligations.

The comparison hub holds the tables. The Kansas and New Mexico hubs hold the state detail. Outlays are not used here.

Reading New Mexico’s FY2026 $2.01B without overclaiming

New Mexico’s fiscal year 2026 obligations of $2.01B are a large share of its $3.93B stacked stock. Kansas’s $200.2M FY2026 slice is a much smaller share of its $2.91B stock. That recency gap is in the packet. What the packet does not say is why the latest year is so large in New Mexico — agency mix, award timing, and cash outlays are not in these facts. Commercial and institutional building construction as New Mexico’s peak is consistent with large obligation amounts landing in a given year. Computer systems design services as Kansas’s peak is consistent with many smaller actions (71,423 vs 19,233).

Spending per capita of $945.82 versus $67.40 uses Census counts of 2,130,256 and 2,970,606. Keep those ratios labeled as USAspending.gov obligations beside population. Do not convert $2.01B or $200.2M into cash per resident. The comparison hub and the Kansas and New Mexico state hubs are the places to continue the read.

Questions

Does Kansas or New Mexico have more federal spending?

New Mexico leads stacked USAspending.gov obligations $3.93B to Kansas’s $2.91B. New Mexico also leads spending per capita, $945.82 versus $67.40, on 2,130,256 residents against Kansas’s 2,970,606. Kansas has more awards (71,423 vs 19,233). FY2026 obligations are $200.2M in Kansas and $2.01B in New Mexico.

Why is New Mexico’s FY2026 total so large versus Kansas?

Fiscal year 2026 obligations are $2.01B in New Mexico and $200.2M in Kansas. That recency slice is much more lopsided than the stacked $3.93B versus $2.91B. Both amounts are USAspending.gov obligations, not outlays. Spending per capita remains $945.82 versus $67.40 on the Census counts in the packet.

What industries lead in Kansas and New Mexico?

Kansas’s top industry is computer systems design services. New Mexico’s is commercial and institutional building construction. Those labels are the largest NAICS slices on $2.91B and $3.93B. Award counts are 71,423 in Kansas and 19,233 in New Mexico. Those NAICS labels are the largest slices on the stacked stocks, not complete industrial profiles.

Are Kansas vs New Mexico figures Treasury outlays?

No. The $2.91B and $3.93B totals, and FY2026 amounts of $200.2M and $2.01B, are USAspending.gov obligations. Outlays are cash payments and can lag. Spending per capita ($67.40 vs $945.82) uses Census population where present. Spending per capita uses Census population where present and should not be read as cash per resident.