BOCA RATON, FL: $76.8M on 169,342 FEC receipts

Boca Raton’s dollar-and-line pair

Divide $76,758,965 by 169,342 and the average itemized line is about $453. That mean is higher than Orlando’s on this extract and lower than some thin North Shore files. It is still only arithmetic. This packet has no median.

Palm Beach, Delray Beach, and Deerfield Beach are other city strings. They are not inside $76,758,965 unless the filer typed BOCA RATON. Palm Beach County is orientation, not an FEC dimension.

Filers can list a PAC or joint-fundraising committee at a Boca Raton address. Those rows stay in the city bucket. Quoting $76,758,965 as household giving describes the city field, not a residency filter. The 169,342 lines are receipts, not unique persons.

Not a South Florida roll-up

Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach keep separate hubs. Adding them to Boca Raton and calling the sum “South Florida” would be a recode this packet does not publish. Keep BOCA RATON, FL as the citation.

State FL on the key is required so Boca Raton is not confused with a same-named place elsewhere. Recheck $76,758,965 and 169,342 on the live hub after a later extract.

City field versus ZIP pages

FEC.gov stores the city string as typed. BOCA RATON plus FL is the match. Recoding into a Census place is a different dataset. This page does not recode.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Boca-area ZIPs can diverge from $76,758,965 when some receipts used other city labels. The 169,342-line count follows the city field.

What Boca Raton’s table omits

Florida state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $76,758,965 and outside 169,342. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

Nothing here estimates how Boca Raton voted. Occupation and recipient committee live on other FEC fields. Use the city table, then ZIP pages, then the cities index.

How to cite BOCA RATON, FL

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $76,758,965 with 169,342 in the same citation. Dropping the line count hides the mean near $453. Dropping the dollars hides scale.

If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named receipt on the Boca Raton table matters to a story.

Boca Raton’s $76,758,965 on 169,342 lines, mean near $453, is a thicker-check file than Orlando on similar dollars. Keep the line count so that contrast is visible.

Palm Beach remains the neighboring city string readers most often want to fold in. This packet does not fold it in. $76,758,965 is BOCA RATON, FL only.

What a Boca Raton reader should carry

Carry FEC.gov, contributor city BOCA RATON, FL, $76,758,965, and 169,342 lines. The mean near $453 is optional arithmetic. It is not a typical household gift and not a unique-donor average.

Palm Beach, Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, and Miami stay off this page unless the filer typed BOCA RATON. Florida state-office receipts stay off this page. Unitemized federal gifts stay off this page.

Palm Beach County is orientation, not an FEC dimension. A complete Boca Raton footnote names the city string, the dollars, and the line count together. Leaving off 169,342 hides the mean near $453.

The live Boca Raton hub is the table. This guide is the footnote. If they disagree, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Boca Raton receipt matters. ZIP pages split a different field.

Boca Raton’s 169,342 lines behind $76,758,965 sit between Orlando’s thicker file and Scarsdale’s thinner one on nearby dollars. That middle shape is why both packet facts have to travel together. Dropping 169,342 hides the mean near $453.

Palm Beach County contains many city strings. FEC.gov stored the one the filer typed. Delray Beach and Deerfield Beach are not a rounding error inside $76,758,965; they are other keys when those names appear on the receipt.

Florida state-office receipts, unitemized federal gifts, and independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations sit outside both facts. Occupation and recipient live on other FEC fields. The Boca Raton hub holds the live table. This guide holds the footnote. If they disagree, trust the hub.

Questions

What is Boca Raton’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city BOCA RATON, FL total $76,758,965 across 169,342 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Boca Raton residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

How should I read the 169,342 line count?

LobbyVault counts 169,342 itemized contributions for BOCA RATON, FL. That is a line count, not a headcount. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding people. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $76,758,965. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 169,342 should not be quoted as a Boca Raton population of donors.

Does Boca Raton’s total include Palm Beach or Delray Beach?

Only if the filer typed BOCA RATON. Palm Beach and Delray Beach are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $76,758,965 is the BOCA RATON, FL match alone. The 169,342 lines follow the same rule. County labels are not an FEC dimension here. Palm Beach County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up on this hub.

Where do Boca Raton’s facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $76,758,965 and 169,342 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Florida non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $453 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.