WALNUT CREEK, CA: $26.9M on 127,718 FEC receipts

Walnut Creek’s volume relative to its dollars

One hundred twenty-seven thousand seven hundred eighteen lines produce $26,934,936. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $211. That is a high-volume East Bay city string on this extract. A thinner California city on similar dollars would print a higher mean; that contrast is a shape fact, not a character study of downtown Walnut Creek.

Lafayette, Concord, and Pleasant Hill are other Contra Costa city strings. They are not inside $26,934,936 unless the filer typed WALNUT CREEK. Contra Costa County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Not a San Francisco or Oakland sum

San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley keep separate California hubs. Adding them to Walnut Creek would be a recode. This packet publishes WALNUT CREEK, CA only: $26,934,936 and 127,718 lines. A Concord household typed as WALNUT CREEK sits inside the pair; a Walnut Creek household typed as LAFAYETTE does not. State CA on the key is required in the citation.

Office addresses can share the Walnut Creek city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 127,718 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

City string versus BART-map geography

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. WALNUT CREEK plus CA is the match. Recoding into a Census place or an East Bay metro label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Walnut Creek-area ZIPs can diverge from $26,934,936 when some receipts used Lafayette or Concord as the city. The 127,718-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Walnut Creek aggregate

California state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $26,934,936 and outside 127,718. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing here estimates how Walnut Creek voted. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. Use the city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index. California state and local races that never become federal Schedule A rows sit outside both facts.

Citing WALNUT CREEK, CA

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $26,934,936 with 127,718 together. Dropping the line count hides Walnut Creek’s volume relative to a thinner city on similar dollars. Contra Costa County, BART, and “the East Bay” are useful for maps and news copy. They are not FEC dimensions on this hub.

Walnut Creek will keep attracting queries that treat the city as a proxy for East Bay residents. FEC.gov stores a contributor-city field. $26,934,936 across 127,718 lines is what that field sums to in this aggregate. A mean near $211 follows from division. Unique donors are not in the packet. Party is not in the packet. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Walnut Creek receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Walnut Creek hub

Start on the live Walnut Creek city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $26,934,936 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 127,718 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Oakland or Lafayette as the “real” East Bay. Filers typed WALNUT CREEK. LobbyVault indexed WALNUT CREEK. A Lafayette household typed as WALNUT CREEK sits inside the pair; a Walnut Creek household typed as CONCORD does not.

Cite the pair in one sentence: contributor city WALNUT CREEK, CA, $26,934,936, 127,718 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. A mean near $211 is only $26,934,936 divided by 127,718. It is not a typical Walnut Creek household gift and not a typical Broadway Plaza office gift. Occupation, recipient, and party are other FEC fields. None of those fields are in this packet. Do not infer turnout. Do not infer that Walnut Creek is more or less politically active than Oakland because the line counts differ. Oakland is a different city string with its own hub. Original PDFs and electronic filings remain on FEC.gov. California non-federal filings never enter either fact. Unitemized federal gifts never enter either fact.

Questions

What is Walnut Creek’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city WALNUT CREEK, CA total $26,934,936 across 127,718 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Walnut Creek residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read Walnut Creek’s 127,718 contributions?

LobbyVault counts 127,718 itemized lines for WALNUT CREEK, CA. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding donors. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $26,934,936.

Does Walnut Creek’s total include Oakland or Concord?

Only if the filer typed WALNUT CREEK. Oakland, Concord, and Lafayette are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $26,934,936 is the WALNUT CREEK, CA match. The 127,718 lines follow the same rule. Metro labels are not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Walnut Creek facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $26,934,936 and 127,718 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. California non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $211 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.