Louisiana vs Virginia on USAspending

A Gulf Coast industrial lead on a $4.7B book

Ship building and repairing as a top NAICS description is specific in a way “other computer related services” is not. It points to hulls, repair availabilities, and related yard work coded to Louisiana place of performance. That does not make Louisiana a larger federal market than Virginia. $4.7B versus $110.8B is still roughly 1-to-24 on the obligation stock.

Louisiana’s Census population is 4,597,740, about half of Virginia’s 8,811,195. Population explains a slice of the dollar gap, not the rest. USAspending.gov attributes a large professional-services stock to Virginia and a smaller, shipyard-led stock to Louisiana.

Ship building and repairing is the only shipyard top-industry label in this assigned batch. That uniqueness is the reason to write Louisiana versus Virginia as a yards-versus-IT pair rather than as a generic small-state pair. Scale still belongs in the same paragraph: $4.7B versus $110.8B, 4,597,740 versus 8,811,195 residents, 72,577 versus 1,116,647 awards.

Award counts: 72,577 versus 1,116,647

Louisiana’s 72,577 awards are a short file next to Virginia’s 1,116,647. Shipyard work can sit on fewer, larger production and repair awards than a computer-services modification mill. The packet does not split the 72,577 actions into ship work versus everything else, so the shipbuilding label is the leading slice only.

A short action list plus $4.7B is still a material federal footprint. It is not Virginia’s $110.8B footprint. Quote both columns so the pair is not reduced to industry color without scale.

A 72,577-action file under $4.7B is consistent with lumpy production and repair awards. Virginia’s 1,116,647 actions under $110.8B are consistent with a services-modification stack. Those are readings of published columns. This page does not invent an average award value or name yards.

Per-capita $268.17 — relatively high for a sub-$5B stock

Louisiana’s spending per capita is $268.17, close to Connecticut’s $266.81 and Missouri’s $262.46 in this batch, because $4.7B is divided by 4.6 million people. Virginia’s $1,344.24 remains much higher. Per-capita is not a levee payment and not a household check.

FY 2026 is the latest year tagged. The $4.7B and $110.8B aggregates are broader obligation stocks, not a single-year shipbuilding appropriation.

$268.17 per capita clusters with Connecticut’s $266.81: a sub-$8B stock over a few million people. Virginia’s $1,344.24 remains much higher. Per-capita is obligations over Census population, with FY 2026 as the latest year. It is not a disaster-relief figure and not a household check.

How to cite Louisiana versus Virginia

Lead with the industry contrast, then the scale: ship building and repairing versus other computer related services, $4.7B versus $110.8B, 72,577 versus 1,116,647 awards, $268.17 versus $1,344.24 per capita. Cite USAspending.gov. Keep obligations distinct from outlays.

The Louisiana and Virginia state pages hold agency and recipient tables. This pair is the shipyard matchup in the comparison set; other industrial leads (aircraft, autos, pharma) live on the comparison index.

Cite USAspending.gov. Keep obligations distinct from outlays. The Louisiana and Virginia state pages hold agency and recipient lists. This guide is the shipbuilding matchup against Virginia’s other computer related services hub.

What this page does not include

No yard names, no hull numbers, no Navy-versus-commercial split, no outlay conversion. The packet’s facts are obligation totals, award counts, populations, per-capita figures, FY 2026, and the two top-industry labels.

Shipyards versus computer-related services

Louisiana’s ship building and repairing lead is the industry fact that should lead any careful summary of this pair, followed immediately by scale: $4.7B, 72,577 awards, 4,597,740 residents, $268.17 per capita. Virginia’s other computer related services lead comes with $110.8B, 1,116,647 awards, 8,811,195 residents, and $1,344.24 per capita. Yards versus IT is the color; the dollar columns are the size. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not Treasury outlays. FY 2026 is the latest year, not a single-year shipbuilding appropriation. The Louisiana and Virginia state hubs hold agency and recipient lists. No yard names appear here because none appear in the packet. Louisiana’s 72,577 awards and $268.17 per capita are the volume and intensity checks on the $4.7B shipyard-led total.

Questions

How does Louisiana federal spending compare with Virginia?

Louisiana shows $4.7B in USAspending obligations; Virginia shows $110.8B. Louisiana’s population is 4,597,740 versus 8,811,195 in Virginia. Totals are obligations, not Treasury outlays. FY 2026 is the latest year in the comparison. Figures come from SpendingVault aggregates of USAspending.gov award records. They are obligations — recorded commitments — not Treasury outlays, and FY 2026 is the latest year in the comparison.

What is Louisiana’s top federal industry vs Virginia?

Louisiana’s top industry is ship building and repairing. Virginia’s is other computer related services. Those NAICS descriptions are the leading slices in SpendingVault’s aggregates, not a complete list of either state’s federal awards. Figures come from SpendingVault aggregates of USAspending.gov award records. They are obligations — recorded commitments — not Treasury outlays, and FY 2026 is the latest year in the comparison.

What is Louisiana’s federal spending per capita compared with Virginia?

Louisiana’s spending per capita is $268.17. Virginia’s is $1,344.24. Both divide USAspending obligations by Census population (4,597,740 and 8,811,195). Per-capita is a scaling statistic, not a payment to residents. Figures come from SpendingVault aggregates of USAspending.gov award records. They are obligations — recorded commitments — not Treasury outlays, and FY 2026 is the latest year in the comparison.

How many federal awards are in Louisiana vs Virginia?

Louisiana has 72,577 awards in this aggregate; Virginia has 1,116,647. Award counts include contracts, grants, and modifications. Virginia also leads on dollars, $110.8B versus Louisiana’s $4.7B. Figures come from SpendingVault aggregates of USAspending.gov award records. They are obligations — recorded commitments — not Treasury outlays, and FY 2026 is the latest year in the comparison.