Hardware Stores federal obligations in North Carolina (NAICS 444130)

What the hardware stores–North Carolina join is

NAICS 444130 and place-of-performance state NC meet on this tie. $169,809,583 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not the nationwide total for hardware stores, not North Carolina’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. 444130 is hardware stores, a retail code, not construction (237310) and not construction machinery manufacturing (333120).

96,927 is an award-action count. Modifications, delivery orders, and repeat vehicles add rows. Unique vendors are not published in this packet. Dividing $169,809,583 by 96,927 yields about $1,752 per award on average. The join does not rank North Carolina against other states and does not assign a fiscal year; none is in the facts.

Open North Carolina federal spending for the state rollup, NAICS 444130 for the industry hub, North Carolina industries for other NAICS in the same geography, and All spending ties for other pairs.

NAICS 444130 as the industry side

USAspending labels NAICS 444130 as Hardware Stores. Hardware Stores is a retail NAICS. Merchant wholesalers and manufacturers of the same goods sit on other codes. The packet does not list commodities. North Carolina also has a 541611 management-consulting join on this slice; those dollars are not here. The industry hub for NAICS 444130 does not require North Carolina geography; only this overlay applies both filters.

A second hardware stores join in another state uses the same NAICS and a different dollar total. Do not treat North Carolina’s 444130 figure as a synonym for every hardware stores award in the catalog. 444130 is hardware stores, a retail code, not construction (237310) and not construction machinery manufacturing (333120). Award titles on the NAICS 444130 page are the place to see what a given line bought.

Place of performance in North Carolina

North Carolina on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to North Carolina residents. North Carolina POP is statewide, not a Research Triangle-only overlay. Place of performance is not a store-count survey. Other states’ 444130 totals, if any, are other joins. Awards can list NC while later performance occurs elsewhere.

The state hub for North Carolina shows how NAICS 444130 sits beside other industries in the same geography. This packet does not split metros, counties, or congressional districts. Open North Carolina federal spending for the state rollup, NAICS 444130 for the industry hub, North Carolina industries for other NAICS in the same geography, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Award count, mean, and obligations

96,927 awards is an outlier action count on this slice. Purchase orders and catalog lines can each mint a row, which pulls the mean toward a small-ticket ratio. That mean is still only a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical hardware invoice. Award count 96,927 is a record count, not a payment count and not a unique-contractor census. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the North Carolina industries list and the NAICS 444130 hub.

An obligation is a legal commitment. $169,809,583 is that kind of sum. Outlays can lag. This packet has no outlay total and no fiscal-year split. Citing $169,809,583 as cash already spent in North Carolina over-reads the field.

What this pair does not prove

A huge row count is not proof of waste and not proof of a single prime. It is how this retail NAICS was recorded. Obligations remain commitments, not outlays. Keep $169,809,583 labeled as NAICS 444130 obligations with North Carolina place of performance. Campaign contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets; this page does not claim donations fund these obligations.

A later ingest can restate $169,809,583 without changing the join key of NAICS 444130 and NC. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Open North Carolina federal spending for the state rollup, NAICS 444130 for the industry hub, North Carolina industries for other NAICS in the same geography, and All spending ties for other pairs. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has NAICS 444130 obligated in North Carolina?

USAspending.gov records $169,809,583 in obligations for NAICS 444130 (Hardware Stores) with North Carolina place of performance, covering 96,927 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not the nationwide hardware stores figure. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Does $170M mean the Treasury spent that much in North Carolina?

No. The figure is obligations on awards tagged to NAICS 444130 and North Carolina place of performance. Outlays can differ. Place of performance is a geography field, not proof that every dollar was disbursed to North Carolina vendors or residents. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Why does North Carolina 444130 show tens of thousands of awards?

The extract lists 96,927 awards totaling $169,809,583 for hardware stores (444130) with North Carolina place of performance. Retail purchase orders can multiply rows. The packet does not publish a unique-vendor count. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live hardware stores–North Carolina table?

North Carolina federal spending is the state rollup. NAICS 444130 is the industry hub without a state filter. North Carolina industries lists other NAICS in North Carolina. All spending ties lists other pairs. The $169,809,583 and 96,927 awards on this page are the 444130×NC join only. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.