Department of Justice obligations in Virginia 11th District (VA-11)

Department of Justice and Virginia 11th District (VA-11) as a USAspending pair

Awarding agency 015 and congressional district VA-11 meet here. $6,187,155,178.96 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 Virginia 11th District (VA-11), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments. 3,712 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a case docket, a prison census, or a named-grantee file.

Dividing $6,187,155,178.96 by 3,712 yields about $1,666,798.27 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 3,712 awards is a thick Justice file. Volume pulls the implied mean down. It is not a case docket. Do not treat VA-11’s 015 cell as a synonym for every Justice account nationwide. Open Virginia 11th District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Justice for agency 015 without the VA-11 filter, Virginia federal spending for every awarding agency in the Virginia extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $6,187,155,178.96.

How USAspending labels Department of Justice

USAspending labels awarding agency 015 as Department of Justice. That code produced $6,187,155,178.96 when crossed with Virginia 11th District (VA-11) place of performance. The agency-wide 015 hub does not require VA-11 geography. The district hub does not require Justice. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 3,712 awards. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Virginia 11th District (VA-11) did not “cause” $6,187,155,178.96 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 015 × VA-11 only. It 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.

Geography is VA-11, not a facility map

Virginia 11th District (VA-11) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list VA-11 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Virginia districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 015. Virginia 11th District (VA-11) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Virginia. Other Virginia districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 015. Virginia 11th District (VA-11) is the place-of-performance filter. Agency 015 is Department of Justice, not Department of State (019) and not DHS (070), which also meet VA-11 on other ties.

Virginia federal spending shows how agency 015 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $6,187,155,178.96 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Virginia 11th District (VA-11) 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 $135,818,189,140.10; $6,187,155,178.96 is the Justice slice of that denominator.

Commitment totals versus cash paid

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $6,187,155,178.96 is that kind of sum for Department of Justice inside VA-11 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 $6,187,155,178.96 as given.

Keeping both sides of the 015 × VA-11 pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (agency 015) obligated $6,187,155,178.96 on 3,712 awards coded to Virginia 11th District (VA-11). Name Department of Justice and Virginia 11th District (VA-11) together. Keep the obligation word. If Virginia 11th 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. 4.6% of $135,818,189,140.10 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Share, mean, and what they are not

3,712 awards is a thick Justice file. Volume pulls the implied mean down. It is not a case docket. 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 $1,666,798.27) and the district share (4.6% of $135,818,189,140.10) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Virginia 11th District and Department of Justice if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Virginia 11th District (VA-11) 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 $6,187,155,178.96 and 3,712 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 Virginia 11th District (VA-11)?

USAspending.gov lists $6,187,155,178.96 in Department of Justice obligations across 3,712 awards with place of performance in Virginia 11th District (VA-11). Agency 015 × VA-11 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Virginia’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 4.6% of the district’s published total ($135,818,189,140.10). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $1,666,798.27, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $6,187,155,178.96 include every Justice program in VA-11?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DOJ components or contract versus assistance instruments. $6,187,155,178.96 is the combined obligation sum for agency 015 inside VA-11 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Justice and Virginia 11th District to inspect parent tables. 3,712 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $6,187,155,178.96 cash already paid in Virginia 11th District (VA-11)?

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 $6,187,155,178.96 as checks already cleared in Virginia 11th District (VA-11) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 3,712 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

How does this Justice cell relate to Virginia statewide spending?

Virginia federal spending is the Virginia statewide extract across awarding agencies. $6,187,155,178.96 is the Department of Justice amount inside Virginia 11th District (VA-11) only, not the statewide Justice total. Adding Virginia federal spending to $6,187,155,178.96 double-counts. Agency 015 nationwide lives on Department of Justice. This join is 015 × VA-11.