California vs Colorado

91,723 awards on $8.1B

Colorado’s award count is the distinctive fact. 91,723 actions on $8.1B is a concentrated file relative to California’s 639,340 actions on $39.5B. Colorado’s row count is about 14 percent of California’s; its dollar stock is about 20 percent. The Mountain West tape is dollar-heavy relative to rows. The packet does not publish average award size. The contrast is enough to flag concentration.

Colorado’s lead NAICS is nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation. A charter-freight peak is consistent with large airlift bookings rather than a high-frequency services tape. California’s commercial-construction peak sits inside a much larger 639,340-row mix.

Colorado’s $8.1B charter-freight stock on 5,957,493 residents is a concentrated 91,723-row airlift file; California’s $39.5B construction-led stock on 39,431,263 residents remains larger in dollars and warmer at $135.64 versus $97.34. FY2026 of $579.9M versus $5.3B does not reorder that ranking.

Charter freight versus federal buildings

Nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation and commercial and institutional building construction are different NAICS families. Colorado’s $8.1B charter-freight peak is a logistics-airlift mix. California’s $39.5B construction peak is a facilities mix. The packet names those peaks; it does not give shares.

Use the California and Colorado state hubs for agencies and recipients. Cite USAspending.gov. Do not treat the charter-freight peak as an outlay category. The 91,723 and 639,340 rows include many other codes.

Questions

Does California or Colorado have more federal spending?

California leads stacked USAspending.gov obligations $39.5B to Colorado’s $8.1B. California also leads spending per capita, $135.64 versus $97.34, on 39,431,263 residents against Colorado’s 5,957,493. Award counts are 639,340 in California and 91,723 in Colorado. FY2026 obligations are $5.3B in California and $579.9M in Colorado.

Why does Colorado have so few awards on $8.1B?

The packet reports 91,723 awards in Colorado on $8.1B versus 639,340 in California on $39.5B. Colorado’s lead industry is nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation, a mix that can concentrate dollars in fewer airlift actions. Spending per capita is $97.34 versus $135.64. These figures are USAspending.gov obligations, not outlays.

What industries lead in California and Colorado?

California’s top industry is commercial and institutional building construction. Colorado’s is nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation. Those labels are the largest NAICS slices on $39.5B and $8.1B. Award counts are 639,340 in California and 91,723 in Colorado. Those peaks are mix labels on the stacked stocks, not inventories of every award.

Are California vs Colorado figures Treasury outlays?

No. The $39.5B and $8.1B totals, and FY2026 amounts of $5.3B and $579.9M, are USAspending.gov obligations. Outlays are cash payments and can lag. Spending per capita ($135.64 vs $97.34) uses Census population where present. Award counts in the packet are all-years totals, not a single fiscal year’s actions.