TROY, MI: $20.6M on 68,547 FEC receipts

68,547 lines carrying $20,558,960

The headline pair is $20,558,960 and 68,547 lines. The implied average is about $300. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the TROY book. Oakland County filers typed TROY with state MI.

TROY, MI is an Oakland County suburb, not Troy, New York. State MI is required in the citation. Birmingham and Royal Oak are neighboring Oakland County strings. Detroit is a different city field. 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 $20,558,960 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of TROY gave. The 68,547 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints TROY together with Birmingham, Rochester Hills, and Royal Oak, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $20,558,960 on 68,547 TROY, MI rows, mean near $300. Keep the stored spelling TROY in the citation.

Why TROY on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Troy give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city TROY, MI total $20,558,960 across 68,547 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. This extract is TROY with state MI. Troy, NY is a different FEC city-and-state key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $20,558,960. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $300 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the TROY itemized book

$20,558,960 is not spending by TROY candidates. A candidate who lives in TROY can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged TROY, MI can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Birmingham, Rochester Hills, and Royal Oak is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $20,558,960 counts rows that stored TROY, MI. 68,547 lines. About $300 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. MI state-office receipts are omitted.

TROY versus Detroit on the FEC tape

TROY is an Oakland County mid-volume book. 68,547 lines produce $20,558,960, a mean near $300. 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 TROY total of $20,558,960 does not absorb Birmingham, Rochester Hills, and Royal Oak. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State MI stays on the citation so TROY, 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

68,547 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 TROY 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 TROY 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: $20,558,960 and 68,547.

Source tables for $20,558,960

A mean of about $300 is division of $20,558,960 by 68,547. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of TROY. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the TROY city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

TROY’s $20,558,960 across 68,547 contributions is a Oakland County city field, mean near $300. Birmingham is a neighboring string, not a subset. Oakland County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $20,558,960 with 68,547 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 TROY, MI?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city TROY, MI total $20,558,960 across 68,547 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 Troy. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $300 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is this Troy, New York?

No. This extract is TROY with state MI. Troy, NY is a different FEC city-and-state key. LobbyVault counts 68,547 itemized contributions for TROY, MI against $20,558,960. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 68,547 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Troy total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed TROY with state MI. Office addresses and mail that list Troy can be part of $20,558,960 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 68,547-line count follows the same rule.

Are Troy numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $20,558,960 and 68,547 lines for TROY, 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.