SOUTHFIELD, MI: $28.5M on 54,690 FEC receipts

Southfield’s dollars versus line count

Fifty-four thousand six hundred ninety lines produce $28,512,841. Divide the pair and the mean itemized line is about $521. That mean is arithmetic from the two packet facts. FEC.gov does not publish a median on this city aggregate.

Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, and Farmington Hills keep separate Michigan hubs. They are not inside $28,512,841 unless the filer typed SOUTHFIELD. Oakland County is orientation, not an FEC roll-up.

Oakland County city, not Detroit

Detroit keeps a separate hub. Adding it to Southfield would be a recode. This packet publishes SOUTHFIELD, MI only: $28,512,841 and 54,690 lines.

State MI on the key is required in the citation. Recheck both facts on the live hub if a later extract lands.

City field versus postal map

FEC.gov stores whatever city appeared on the itemized receipt. SOUTHFIELD plus MI is the match. Recoding into a Census place or a Detroit metro label is a different dataset.

ZIP pages cut the same federal series by postal code. Summing Oakland County ZIPs can diverge from $28,512,841 when some receipts used Detroit or Farmington Hills as the city. The 54,690-line count follows the city field.

Limits of the Southfield aggregate

Michigan state campaigns file under state law. Those receipts are outside $28,512,841 and outside 54,690. Unitemized federal gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures that never appear as contribution itemizations are outside both facts.

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

Citing SOUTHFIELD, MI

Name FEC.gov, name contributor city, and print $28,512,841 with 54,690 together. Dropping the line count hides how the $521 mean is produced.

Office addresses can share the Southfield city field with household streets. Totals can include a PAC or joint-fundraising address when that is what filers typed. The 54,690 lines are receipts, not unique persons. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, trust the hub. Open original reports on FEC.gov when a named Southfield receipt matters.

How researchers should use the Southfield hub

Start on the live Southfield city page, then open ZIP pages if a postal cut is the real question. $28,512,841 is the city-string dollar total in this snapshot. 54,690 is the matching line count. Those two numbers move together when FEC.gov amends a receipt. They do not move because a researcher prefers Detroit as the “real” metro. Filers typed SOUTHFIELD. LobbyVault indexed SOUTHFIELD.

A mean near $521 is only $28,512,841 divided by 54,690. Occupation, recipient, and party are different FEC fields. None of those fields are in this packet. Cite the pair: contributor city SOUTHFIELD, MI, $28,512,841, 54,690 itemized federal contributions, source FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Michigan non-federal filings never enter either fact.

Lathrup Village, Oak Park, and Beverly Hills, Michigan sit nearby. They enter $28,512,841 only if the filer typed SOUTHFIELD. The 54,690 lines are this Oakland County string. Detroit keeps a separate hub. The mean near $521 follows from a smaller line count relative to the dollar book.

Do not infer occupation from that mean. Michigan non-federal filings stay outside. Cite SOUTHFIELD, MI with both packet facts. Recheck the live hub. ZIP pages will diverge when filers used Detroit as the city. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Southfield’s $28,512,841 sits on 54,690 lines, which is why the mean is near $521. Detroit is a different hub. Bloomfield Hills is a different hub. Oakland County is a map. Michigan state filings stay outside. Cite SOUTHFIELD, MI with both packet facts. Recheck the live hub. Repeat gifts can add rows without adding donors. Unique donors are unpublished. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Keep SOUTHFIELD, MI, $28,512,841, and 54,690 in one citation. The mean near $521 is those two numbers divided. Detroit remains a separate string. Bloomfield Hills remains a separate string. Oakland County remains a map. Michigan non-federal filings remain outside. Unitemized federal gifts remain outside. Independent expenditures that are not contribution itemizations remain outside. Start on the live city page. Open ZIP pages for a postal cut. Open FEC.gov for a named Southfield receipt that needs the original filing.

Questions

What is Southfield’s federal contribution total on LobbyVault?

Itemized FEC.gov receipts listing contributor city SOUTHFIELD, MI total $28,512,841 across 54,690 contributions. That pair is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Southfield residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside both figures.

Why is Southfield’s mean near $521?

Divide $28,512,841 by 54,690 and the arithmetic mean is about $521. The line count is smaller relative to the dollar book than on some high-volume Michigan hubs. That is a shape fact, not a typical gift. This packet publishes no unique-donor figure.

Does Southfield’s total include Detroit?

Only if the filer typed SOUTHFIELD. Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, and Farmington Hills are separate city strings when they appear that way on the receipt. $28,512,841 is the SOUTHFIELD, MI match. The 54,690 lines follow the same rule. Oakland County is not an FEC dimension on this hub.

Where do the Southfield facts come from?

Both facts come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $28,512,841 and 54,690 lines. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Michigan non-federal filings are outside the pair. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $521 is arithmetic from those two packet numbers.