Department of Justice obligations in Alabama 6th District (AL-06)
USAspending.gov tags $552,619,497.82 to Department of Justice inside Alabama 6th District (AL-06) — 1,226 award records, not outlays. One thousand two hundred twenty-six Justice-coded awards cover about eleven percent of AL-06's district obligation total, a moderately thick Department of Justice file on this Alabama geography only. That pair is Department of Justice and Alabama 6th District (AL-06) — not Alabama's entire federal inflow, not Department of Justice nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 10.6% of this district's published obligation total ($5,204,765,606.47). Implied average obligation is about $450,750 ($552,619,497.82 ÷ 1,226). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Justice in Alabama 6th District (AL-06): $552,619,497.82 across 1,226 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $450,750 per record; district share 10.6% of $5,204,765,606.47.
- Agency 015 × AL-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Alabama 6th District and Department of Justice if live tables moved.
- Alabama federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $552,619,497.82.
Justice obligations coded to Alabama 6th District (AL-06)
Awarding agency 015 and congressional district AL-06 meet here. $552,619,497.82 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Justice's nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Alabama 6th District (AL-06), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments. 1,226 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a case docket, a prison census, or a named-grantee file.
Dividing $552,619,497.82 by 1,226 yields about $450,750 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 1,226 awards is a moderately thick Justice file. Volume pulls the implied mean down relative to a handful of large instruments. It is not a case docket. Do not treat AL-06's 015 cell as a synonym for every Justice account nationwide. Open Alabama 6th District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Justice for agency 015 without a AL-06 filter, Alabama federal spending for every awarding agency in the Alabama extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $552,619,497.82.
What Justice contributes to this pair
USAspending labels awarding agency 015 as Department of Justice. That code produced $552,619,497.82 when crossed with Alabama 6th District (AL-06) place of performance. The agency-wide 015 hub does not require AL-06 geography. The district hub does not require Justice. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1,226 awards. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Alabama 6th District (AL-06) did not cause $552,619,497.82 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 015 × AL-06 only. This cell is not a case docket, a prison census, or a named-grantee file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.
District geography versus Alabama statewide totals
Alabama 6th District (AL-06) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list AL-06 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Alabama districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 015. Alabama 6th District (AL-06) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Alabama. Other Alabama districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 015. Alabama 6th District (AL-06) is a numbered place-of-performance code inside Alabama. Other Alabama districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 015.
Alabama federal spending shows how agency 015 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $552,619,497.82 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Alabama 6th District (AL-06) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Department of Justice. The district-wide obligation total published here is $5,204,765,606.47; $552,619,497.82 is the Justice slice of that denominator.
Why this is not an outlay register
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $552,619,497.82 is that kind of sum for Department of Justice inside AL-06 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $552,619,497.82 as given.
Alabama's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,226-row Justice cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1,226 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($450,750) is a concentration statistic, not a typical AL-06 Justice payment.
Live tables versus this snapshot
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (agency 015) obligated $552,619,497.82 on 1,226 awards coded to Alabama 6th District (AL-06). Name Department of Justice and Alabama 6th District (AL-06) together. Keep the obligation word. If Alabama 6th District or Department of Justice has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a case docket, a prison census, or a named-grantee file. 10.6% of $5,204,765,606.47 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Keep Department of Justice, Alabama 6th District (AL-06), $552,619,497.82, and 1,226 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Justice is the 015 parent without a AL-06 filter. Alabama federal spending is the Alabama parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with Justice does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.
What this packet refuses to infer
1,226 awards is a moderately thick Justice file. Volume pulls the implied mean down relative to a handful of large instruments. It is not a case docket. Other Justice × district pages are separate cells. Do not fold those geographies into AL-06. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $450,750) and the district share (10.6% of $5,204,765,606.47) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Alabama 6th District and Department of Justice if the live tables moved.
Do not rank Alabama 6th District (AL-06) as more Justice-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 015 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 015 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $552,619,497.82 and 1,226 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much Justice spending is coded to Alabama 6th District (AL-06)?
- USAspending.gov lists $552,619,497.82 in Department of Justice obligations across 1,226 awards with place of performance in Alabama 6th District (AL-06). Agency 015 × AL-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Alabama's complete federal ledger. The cell is 10.6% of the district's published total ($5,204,765,606.47). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $450,750, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does $552,619,497.82 include every Justice program in AL-06?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments. $552,619,497.82 is the combined obligation sum for agency 015 inside AL-06 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Justice and Alabama 6th District to inspect parent tables. 1,226 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $552,619,497.82 cash already paid in Alabama 6th District (AL-06)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $552,619,497.82 as checks already cleared in Alabama 6th District (AL-06) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,226 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- What share of AL-06 obligations is agency 015?
- Agency 015 accounts for 10.6% of $5,204,765,606.47 in district-wide obligations on this packet. That share is $552,619,497.82 ÷ $5,204,765,606.47. It is not a ranking of Alabama districts and not an outlay share. Other awarding agencies occupy the remaining district total on other ties.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.