FARMINGTON HILLS, MI: $16.8M on 55,856 FEC receipts

55,856 lines carrying $16,802,932

The headline pair is $16,802,932 and 55,856 lines. The implied average is about $301. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the FARMINGTON HILLS book. Oakland County filers typed FARMINGTON HILLS with state MI.

FARMINGTON HILLS is not FARMINGTON. Filers who typed the shorter city created a different Michigan key. West Bloomfield and Novi are neighboring Oakland strings. Detroit rows sit on another hub. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string. Read $16,802,932 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of Farmington Hills gave. The 55,856 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints Farmington Hills together with Farmington, West Bloomfield, and Novi, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $16,802,932 on 55,856 FARMINGTON HILLS, MI rows, mean near $301. Keep the stored spelling FARMINGTON HILLS in the citation.

Why FARMINGTON HILLS on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Farmington Hills give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city FARMINGTON HILLS, MI total $16,802,932 across 55,856 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. FARMINGTON HILLS, MI is the stored string. FARMINGTON without Hills is a different city key when typed.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $16,802,932. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $301 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the FARMINGTON HILLS itemized book

$16,802,932 is not spending by Farmington Hills candidates. A candidate who lives in Farmington Hills can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged FARMINGTON HILLS, MI can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Farmington, West Bloomfield, and Novi is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $16,802,932 counts rows that stored FARMINGTON HILLS, MI. 55,856 lines. About $301 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. MI state-office receipts are omitted.

FARMINGTON HILLS versus Detroit on the FEC tape

FARMINGTON HILLS is an Oakland County mid-volume book in Oakland County northwest of Detroit. 55,856 lines produce $16,802,932, a mean near $301. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Detroit is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A Farmington Hills total of $16,802,932 does not absorb Farmington, West Bloomfield, and Novi. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State MI stays on the citation so FARMINGTON HILLS, MI is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in MI state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in MI

55,856 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 Farmington Hills 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 Farmington Hills 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: $16,802,932 and 55,856.

Source tables for $16,802,932

A mean of about $301 is division of $16,802,932 by 55,856. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Farmington Hills. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the Farmington Hills city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

Farmington Hills’s $16,802,932 across 55,856 contributions is a Oakland County city field, mean near $301. Farmington is a neighboring string, not a subset. Oakland County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $16,802,932 with 55,856 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city FARMINGTON HILLS, MI?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city FARMINGTON HILLS, MI total $16,802,932 across 55,856 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 Farmington Hills. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $301 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Farmington Hills the same FEC city as Farmington, Michigan?

No. FARMINGTON HILLS, MI is the stored string. FARMINGTON without Hills is a different city key when typed. LobbyVault counts 55,856 itemized contributions for FARMINGTON HILLS, MI against $16,802,932. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 55,856 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Farmington Hills total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed FARMINGTON HILLS with state MI. Office addresses and mail that list Farmington Hills can be part of $16,802,932 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 55,856-line count follows the same rule.

Are Farmington Hills numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $16,802,932 and 55,856 lines for FARMINGTON HILLS, MI. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MI are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.