Highway Planning and Construction obligations in Indiana
USAspending.gov records $4,808,077,732.03 in Highway Planning And Construction obligations (CFDA 20.205) with place of performance in Indiana, across 6,405 awards. Six thousand four hundred five instruments against $4.81 billion produce a mean of about $750,676 per award. This page joins DOT catalog 20.205 to the IN geography tag. It is not a lane-mile census and not cash already paid.
Key figures
- CFDA 20.205 shows $4,808,077,732.03 in Indiana obligations on 6,405 awards.
- The mean is about $750,676 per award.
- The catalog is highway planning and construction, not transit.
- Indiana is a place-of-performance tag, not a lane-mile census.
- Figures are obligations, not outlays.
What the 20.205–Indiana join is
CFDA 20.205 is titled HIGHWAY PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION. Crossed with Indiana place of performance, obligations sum to $4,808,077,732.03 on 6,405 awards. The national 20.205 hub includes other states. Indiana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $4,808,077,732.03 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of projects in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, or Gary.
6,405 awards is a denser transportation book than Ohio’s or New York’s 20.205 cells at nearby dollar scales, which means a lower mean per record. That is a reporting pattern, not a ranking of states. The join does not name INDOT, list letting packages, or count miles. Packet facts stop at $4,808,077,732.03, 6,405 awards, IN, and 20.205.
20.205 is not transit capital or airport grants
Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants and airport improvement catalogs are different DOT lines. Mixing those dollars into $4,808,077,732.03 would invent a broader transportation total than this cell contains. Facts available: Indiana, CFDA 20.205, $4,808,077,732.03, 6,405 awards. Letting dates and pavement-condition scores are not in the facts.
The catalog title names Highway Planning And Construction, not a ranking of congestion. Dividing $4,808,077,732.03 by 6,405 yields about $750,676 per award—a record-level ratio, not a typical contract bid. Unique recipients are unpublished. 6,405 is not a count of bridges.
Indiana geography on the highway tag
IN is the place-of-performance code. A 20.205 award can still appear as records tagged to Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Illinois, Ohio, or Kentucky stay outside $4,808,077,732.03 even when a corridor crosses a state line. The code does not convert $4.81 billion into a project map.
Indiana federal spending is the all-program parent. 20.205 is one row on Indiana programs. $4.81 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Highway Planning And Construction in Indiana for the filtered table, CFDA 20.205 for 20.205 without an Indiana filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $4,808,077,732.03.
Reading 6,405 awards under $4.81 billion
$4,808,077,732.03 ÷ 6,405 is about $750,676 per award. That average is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical bid tab and not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 6,405 as a record count, not as 6,405 finished highways.
USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $4,808,077,732.03 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 6,405 rows are continuations, corrections, or STIP-year instruments. Later ingests can restate $4,808,077,732.03 without changing the join key of 20.205 and IN.
What the highway–Indiana pair does not prove
A large 20.205 total tagged to Indiana does not measure whether pavement improved, and it does not equal miles built. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $4,808,077,732.03 on 6,405 awards for Highway Planning And Construction in Indiana.
Keep both sides of the join: Highway Planning And Construction and Indiana, obligations only. Do not annualize $4,808,077,732.03 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 6,405 as a project census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a congestion story.
Using the 20.205–Indiana overlay
The overlay target is the Indiana × CFDA 20.205 table. Open Highway Planning And Construction in Indiana when you want the same $4,808,077,732.03 / 6,405-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 20.205 drops the Indiana filter. Indiana federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Indiana programs lists other catalogs beside 20.205. All spending ties indexes other pairs.
This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Indiana won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 20.205 plus IN. Obligations of $4,808,077,732.03 are not outlays.
Questions
- How much Highway Planning and Construction is obligated in Indiana?
- USAspending records $4,808,077,732.03 in CFDA 20.205 obligations with Indiana place of performance on 6,405 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not transit capital. Keep Highway Planning And Construction and Indiana together when citing $4,808,077,732.03.
- Are 6,405 awards 6,405 highway projects?
- 6,405 is an award-record count, not a project census. Agreements can post many instruments. The mean is about $750,676 per award, a ratio, not a typical bid. Unique recipients are unpublished.
- Is this Indiana’s total DOT spending?
- No. This join is CFDA 20.205 only. Transit and airport catalogs appear on separate Indiana program pages. Nationwide 20.205 is not limited to Indiana. Obligations of $4,808,077,732.03 are not outlays.
- Where is the live 20.205–Indiana table?
- The overlay is Highway Planning And Construction in Indiana. CFDA 20.205 drops the state filter. Indiana federal spending and Indiana programs are the state parents. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.