Department of Justice federal obligations in New Jersey

The awarding-agency 015 filter plus New Jersey

USAspending.gov stores awarding agency and place of performance on the same award rows. Intersecting 015 with NJ yields $778,918,015.52 in obligations. The pair is not a statement that New Jersey caused Department of Justice to spend, and it is not a census of courthouses.

Behind $778,918,015.52 sit 5,094 award actions (a very long award list). That denominator is why the mean of about $152,908.92 can look large or small depending on how many small rows share the cell. The packet does not publish a median or a unique-recipient count.

Open Department of Justice in New Jersey for the filtered table, New Jersey federal spending for the next hub, Department of Justice for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Mean obligation of about $152,908.92

5,094 rows and $778,918,015.52 produce a mean of about $152,908.92. That ratio is not a typical justice-assistance award and not a payment to a named vendor. Repeat the two packet facts when you reuse the mean; do not round them into a new official statistic.

Do not infer a typical justice-assistance award from the mean. The overlay can show mixed instruments; this page only has the two published numbers and the four internal links.

Place of performance versus DOJ headquarters

Two one-sided pages exist so this two-sided page can stay small. Department of Justice in New Jersey is the live overlay. 5,094 awards and $778,918,015.52 belong only to the pair, not to a blended statewide rollup hidden under this slug.

Mailing address and place of performance can differ. An award that lists New Jersey geography enters this total; an award that lists New York or Pennsylvania does not, even if the vendor answers mail in Newark. Keep 5,094 attached to the statewide tag.

The obligation field

Readers sometimes treat obligation totals as checks cleared. The packet does not support that reading. $778,918,015.52 is the commitment sum; outlays are unnamed here.

The source note repeats the same limit: obligations are not outlays. 5,094 is how many award rows carry both tags, not how many payments left the Treasury.

What the join is not

Do not rank New Jersey as a winner or loser on DOJ dollars from this page alone. The packet has no comparison table. All spending ties lists other pairs without turning this cell into a scoreboard.

A searcher who arrived from a political query still gets an awarding-agency × state obligation total. 5,094 awards and $778,918,015.52 stay in that unit. No donor names are in the packet, and none are invented.

Citing $778,918,015.52 without over-reading it

Reuse $778,918,015.52 only with the filters that created it. Agency 015 without New Jersey, or New Jersey without agency 015, is a different number. About $152,908.92 per award stays a derived ratio of the same two facts.

Keep Department of Justice and New Jersey in the same sentence whenever you quote $778,918,015.52. New Jersey federal spending will look larger because it mixes agencies. Department of Justice will look larger because it mixes states. Department of Justice in New Jersey is the pair. All spending ties lists other pairs. Correlation is not causation. Department of Justice in New Jersey remains the filtered table for this pair. New Jersey federal spending answers a statewide question that mixes agencies. Department of Justice answers an agency question that mixes states. All spending ties is the catalog of other two-sided pages, not a sum of this cell plus its siblings. Nothing in this packet names a contractor, grantee, laboratory, or borrower. Inventing grantees to explain $778,918,015.52 would break the facts-only rule. If a recipient appears on the overlay, that row is evidence from USAspending.gov, not from this narrative. The source note is unchanged: USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays. Repeating $778,918,015.52 as cash already spent in New Jersey is a unit error, not a rounding error.

Questions

What does USAspending show for DOJ in New Jersey?

USAspending.gov records $778,918,015.52 in obligations for awarding agency 015 (Department of Justice) with New Jersey place of performance, covering 5,094 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Justice's nationwide budget.

Can I treat the mean as a typical DOJ award?

The extract lists 5,094 award actions totaling $778,918,015.52. Average obligation per award is about $152,908.92, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical justice-assistance award. Unique grantees are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is place of performance the same as a Newark mailing address?

No. $778,918,015.52 and 5,094 awards are statewide New Jersey place of performance. This packet does not split Newark from Trenton or Camden. Awards coded to New York or Pennsylvania are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Newark.

Where should I go next from this DOJ join?

Department of Justice in New Jersey is the overlay. New Jersey federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Justice shows agency 015 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.