AMERICUS, GA: $25.4M on 5,017 FEC receipts

5,017 lines carrying $25,397,141

Americus shows 5,017 itemizations behind $25,397,141. That mix is a thin stack with a high average line. A few large receipts can dominate a city total when the line count stays this low. Committee receipts that list an Americus address still sit in the same column as individual rows.

Sumter County’s Americus string is separate from Albany, GA, and Atlanta on the FEC city key. Totals can include PAC and joint-fundraising addresses, not only residents. Read $25,397,141 as tagged federal receipts, not as what Americus residents gave. The 5,017 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

A mean near $5,062 is the shape of this extract. It does not prove a typical gift. It does not name a committee. Named receipts on the Americus FEC page are the next click for researchers who need those labels.

Why AMERICUS on the receipt is not a census of Americus

Searchers often want “how much did people in Americus give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city AMERICUS, GA total $25,397,141 across 5,017 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim, especially on a high-mean book.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $25,397,141. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Americus itemized book

$25,397,141 is not spending by Americus candidates. A candidate who lives in Americus can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged AMERICUS, GA can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $5,062 does not describe a median resident of Americus. Means move with a few large lines, and this packet’s line count leaves room for that effect.

Postal confusion with Albany or a rural route stamp is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $25,397,141 counts rows that stored AMERICUS, GA. 5,017 lines. About $5,062 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Americus versus volume books with similar dollars

Several cities on this series post totals near $25 million on 50,000 to 180,000 lines. Americus posts $25,397,141 on 5,017 lines. The dollar totals look similar; the books are not interchangeable.

Comparing Americus’s mean to another city is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in Georgia state data breaks the comparison.

An Americus total of $25,397,141 does not absorb Albany or Atlanta. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State GA stays on the citation so AMERICUS, GA is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in GA

5,017 city-field lines can spread across many ZIPs or cluster in a few. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the ZIP directory and the live Americus hub rather than guessing the split.

After an amendment wave, recheck both the city hub and any ZIP you compared. Snapshots drift independently.

Because this packet carries only city, state, dollar total, and contribution count, every other story about Americus politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field.

Source tables for $25,397,141

A mean of about $5,062 is division of $25,397,141 by 5,017. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Americus.

Internal links on this page go only to the Americus city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

Americus’s $25,397,141 across 5,017 contributions is a Sumter County concentration book, mean near $5,062. Albany, GA, is a neighboring string, not a subset. Sumter County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Georgia state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $25,397,141 with 5,017 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Americus should keep Sumter County and Atlanta off the sentence unless they add those hubs on purpose. The live Americus table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list; on a 5,017-line book those names matter more than on a volume file. A later FEC extract can move $25,397,141 or 5,017 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $5,062 as division only. Georgia state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for an Americus code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Albany, GA, remains another string. The 5,017-line count still is not a headcount of Americus people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Americus, GA?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city AMERICUS, GA total $25,397,141 across 5,017 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in Americus. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Why is Americus’s average contribution so high?

LobbyVault counts 5,017 itemized contributions for AMERICUS, GA against $25,397,141, a mean near $5,062. That is division, not a typical household gift. A low line count can be dominated by a few large receipts. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure or a top-line list, so 5,017 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Americus total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed AMERICUS with state GA. Office addresses and mail that list Americus can be part of $25,397,141 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 5,017-line count follows the same rule.

Are Americus numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $25,397,141 and 5,017 lines for AMERICUS, GA. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from GA are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $5,062 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.