Mississippi vs Texas on USAspending: $2.9B against $72.7B

233,003 awards on a $2.9B stock

Mississippi’s award tape is the distinctive fact in this pair. 233,003 actions on $2.9B means many small bookings, task orders, or repeat actions relative to Texas’s 530,634 actions on $72.7B. Texas still leads on rows. Mississippi leads on rows-per-dollar. The packet does not publish average award size; the contrast in counts versus stocks is enough to flag a high-frequency file on the Mississippi side.

Population does not explain the row count. Mississippi’s 2,943,045 residents are about 9 percent of Texas’s 31,290,831, yet Mississippi’s awards are about 44 percent of Texas’s 530,634. The Gulf file is busy. It is not dollar-heavy. Spending per capita of $115.31 versus $686.1 follows the dollar ranking, not the award ranking.

Shipyards versus pharmaceutical plants

Mississippi’s lead NAICS is ship building and repairing. Texas’s lead NAICS is pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing. A shipyard peak on $2.9B is a Gulf industrial signature. A drug-manufacturing peak on $72.7B is a different industrial signature. Those labels sit on very different stacks and on very different award tapes: 233,003 versus 530,634.

Ship-repair work can generate many modifications and yard actions. Pharmaceutical-preparation work can generate large manufacturing obligations. The packet names the peaks only. Use the Mississippi and Texas state hubs for agencies and recipients. Cite USAspending.gov for the obligation series.

FY2026: $339.4M versus $21.5B

Fiscal year 2026 obligations are $339.4M in Mississippi and $21.5B in Texas. Recency preserves Texas’s dollar lead by a wide margin. Mississippi’s latest-year amount is a modest slice of $2.9B; Texas’s $21.5B is a large slice of $72.7B.

Do not divide $339.4M or $21.5B by 233,003 or 530,634 all-years awards. Those row totals cover the full aggregate. Spending per capita of $115.31 and $686.1 already uses Census denominators of 2,943,045 and 31,290,831. FY2026 is obligations, not outlays.

Busy rows, cool dollars per resident

Mississippi’s $115.31 per capita on 2,943,045 residents is well below Texas’s $686.1 on 31,290,831. The award-count surprise (233,003 vs 530,634) does not reverse intensity. It shows that a shipyard-led file can be action-heavy without being Texas-scale in dollars.

Keep every figure labeled as a USAspending.gov obligation. Outlays would require a different table. Place-of-performance for ship work can concentrate at yards even when suppliers sit elsewhere. The packet does not adjust for that.

Yard actions versus manufacturing dollars

Mississippi’s ship-building-and-repairing peak on $2.9B is a Gulf industrial signature. Yard work generates modifications, options, and repeat actions that can fill a tape. That is the most plausible reading of 233,003 awards on $2.9B next to Texas’s 530,634 awards on $72.7B. Mississippi is not close to Texas on dollars. It is unusually close on rows for a $2.9B stock.

Spending per capita of $115.31 versus $686.1 follows the dollar ranking, not the award ranking. Mississippi’s 2,943,045 residents do not produce a Texas-scale load. Texas’s 31,290,831 residents sit on $72.7B and $686.1. FY2026 of $339.4M versus $21.5B restates the dollar ranking on recency. Cite USAspending.gov. Outlays are a different series.

Place-of-performance for ship repair can concentrate at a yard even when suppliers sit in other states. The packet does not reallocate. Texas’s pharmaceutical-preparation peak is likewise a mix tag on a much larger file. Use the Mississippi and Texas hubs for agencies and recipients. Keep 233,003 versus 530,634 labeled as all-years award counts, not as a single fiscal year’s actions.

Mississippi’s 233,003 awards remain the row surprise against Texas’s 530,634. The ship-building peak does not convert $2.9B into $72.7B or $115.31 into $686.1. Census counts of 2,943,045 and 31,290,831 stay the per-capita denominators. FY2026 of $339.4M versus $21.5B stays a recency cut of obligations. The comparison hub holds the tables; the state hubs hold agencies and recipients.

How to read Mississippi versus Texas

Read Texas first on stacked dollars ($72.7B vs $2.9B), spending per capita ($686.1 vs $115.31), and FY2026 ($21.5B vs $339.4M). Read Mississippi first on award volume relative to dollars: 233,003 actions on $2.9B, against 530,634 on $72.7B, with ship building and repairing as the lead industry.

The comparison hub holds the tables. The Mississippi and Texas hubs hold agencies and recipients. Census counts of 2,943,045 and 31,290,831 are the per-capita denominators where present. Outlays are not listed.

Questions

Does Mississippi or Texas have more federal spending?

Texas leads stacked USAspending.gov obligations $72.7B to Mississippi’s $2.9B. Texas also leads spending per capita, $686.1 versus $115.31, on 31,290,831 residents against Mississippi’s 2,943,045. Award counts are closer: 530,634 in Texas and 233,003 in Mississippi. FY2026 obligations are $21.5B in Texas and $339.4M in Mississippi.

Why does Mississippi have so many awards on a $2.9B stock?

The packet reports 233,003 awards in Mississippi on $2.9B versus 530,634 in Texas on $72.7B. Mississippi’s lead industry is ship building and repairing, a mix that can generate many yard actions. Spending per capita is $115.31 versus $686.1. These figures are USAspending.gov obligations, not outlays.

What industries lead in Mississippi and Texas?

Mississippi’s top industry is ship building and repairing. Texas’s is pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing. Those labels are the largest NAICS slices on $2.9B and $72.7B. Award counts are 233,003 in Mississippi and 530,634 in Texas. Those peaks are mix labels on the stacked stocks, not inventories of every award.

Are Mississippi vs Texas figures Treasury outlays?

No. The $2.9B and $72.7B totals, and FY2026 amounts of $339.4M and $21.5B, are USAspending.gov obligations. Outlays are cash payments and can lag. Spending per capita ($115.31 vs $686.1) uses Census population where present. Award counts in the packet are all-years totals, not a single fiscal year’s actions.