FY2024 obligations in Massachusetts’s 5th district

Reading MA-05’s $35.8 billion

The $35.8 billion figure is the obligation sum for awards whose USAspending place of performance is Massachusetts District 05 in fiscal year 2024. A commitment on an award record is not a Treasury disbursement. Massachusetts’s state budget is another book and is not this total. Massachusetts District 05’s $35.8 billion is the FY2024 obligation file for that mapped seat. It is not MA-06 and not a 90 bucket. 7,478 awards are the matching row count.

This packet covers FY2024 only. First year and last year are both 2024. Federal fiscal years start on October 1. Corrections posted later on USAspending.gov can change both the $35.8 billion total and the 7,478-award count. Do not treat $35.8 billion as a calendar-year 2024 figure. Federal FY2024 starts October 1. The 7,478-award count uses that same fiscal window.

Performance district versus recipient address

MA-05 on SpendingVault is the place-of-performance congressional district from USAspending.gov. It is not a map of where prime contractors file their taxes or keep their HQ. A performance site coded to the 5th district can appear even when the recipient’s legal address sits in another Massachusetts district or another state. A recipient based in another Massachusetts district can still appear among the 7,478 rows if place of performance is MA-05. Headquarters is the wrong join key.

Code 05 is a numbered House district. Unspecified Massachusetts performance that never received a House number is stored under USAspending district 90; non-voting buckets use 98. Those residual bins are not this MA-05 page. Massachusetts District 06 is a separate mapped seat. Unspecified Massachusetts performance uses district 90, not MA-05. The $35.8 billion mapped total should not be described as a leftover bin.

What 7,478 awards does and does not mean

7,478 is the FY2024 award-record count for MA-05 place of performance. The extract can list modifications as separate rows. The packet does not identify unique recipients, NAICS mix, or awarding agencies.

Pair the count with $35.8 billion without dividing them. A per-award average would be an extra statistic this file does not carry. Use the district hub if you need to scan individual records rather than a derived mean.

7,478 is a record count. Modifications can add rows. The Massachusetts District 05 hub is the table. $35.8 billion stays the FY2024 obligation roll-up for MA-05.

Keeping obligations distinct from outlays

The $35.8 billion total is the obligation series. Outlays track Treasury disbursements and can land in different years than the original award action. SpendingVault’s MA-05 copy stays on obligations so the page does not silently switch series.

A news figure that calls District 05 “federal spending” may still be using outlays, calendar years, or recipient location. Match series, year, and geography before treating a disagreement as an error in the $35.8 billion index.

Cite MA-05 as FY2024 USAspending.gov place-of-performance obligations of $35.8 billion on 7,478 awards. Do not paste that total into an outlay sheet or a headquarters map.

Massachusetts statewide and other districts

Massachusetts’s state hub is the statewide obligation view. MA-05 is one mapped place-of-performance district inside that state. Statewide Massachusetts is larger than District 05 by construction; this packet does not publish the statewide total.

The all-districts list uses the same USAspending place-of-performance rule. Compare MA-05 only on FY2024 obligations. This packet does not rank the 5th district among Massachusetts’s other seats.

Massachusetts District 06 is a different hub. Statewide Massachusetts is another page. This packet does not quote those other figures. Stay on MA-05 for the 5th district file.

Reusing Massachusetts District 05 without mixing seats

The $35.8 billion FY2024 obligation figure for MA-05 is an USAspending.gov file statistic. SpendingVault does not convert 7,478 awards into unique firms, an agency mix, or cash paid.

If a comparison already uses recipient location or Treasury outlays, rebuild it before placing $35.8 billion beside those columns. The Massachusetts state hub and the all-districts index stay on obligations and place of performance. Massachusetts District 06 is a different mapped hub with its own FY2024 file. MA-05’s $35.8 billion and 7,478 awards stay on this page. Do not merge the 5th and 6th district extracts, and do not recode this file as outlays or headquarters location.

Questions

How much federal money is obligated in Massachusetts District 05?

USAspending.gov shows $35.8 billion in FY2024 obligations for place of performance in Massachusetts’s 5th district. That is not an outlay figure and not Massachusetts’s state budget. 7,478 awards are counted in the same FY2024 extract. First year and last year are both 2024.

Is MA-05 based on where the recipient company is based?

No. The district is USAspending place of performance. Headquarters in another Massachusetts district, or outside Massachusetts, can still appear here if the performance location is coded MA-05. A MA-05 legal address does not force every dollar onto this hub. Keep Massachusetts District 05 on FY2024 obligations and place of performance rather than headquarters or outlays.

Are District 05’s $35.8 billion outlays?

No. $35.8 billion is an obligation total from FY2024 award records. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury. SpendingVault does not recast the MA-05 obligation sum as outlays. Keep the obligation label and the FY2024 year when the figure is reused.

How many awards are coded to Massachusetts’s 5th district?

7,478 awards appear for MA-05 place of performance in FY2024. The number is a record count, including modifications, not a unique-recipient census. This packet does not divide $35.8 billion by 7,478 awards. Keep Massachusetts District 05 on FY2024 obligations and place of performance rather than headquarters or outlays.