ASHEVILLE, NC: $19.4M on 75,640 FEC receipts

75,640 lines behind ASHEVILLE's $19.4M

ASHEVILLE shows 75,640 itemizations behind $19,385,297. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $19.4M is a high-volume city field: many itemized rows, not a handful of oversized transfers. Volume does not prove small-dollar giving. The implied mean is about $256.

Asheville is a Buncombe mountain-city field. Charlotte is a different Mecklenburg string. Black Mountain and Weaverville stay on their own hubs when filers typed those names. 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 $19,385,297 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of ASHEVILLE gave. The 75,640 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints ASHEVILLE together with Weaverville, Black Mountain, and Hendersonville, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $19,385,297 on 75,640 ASHEVILLE, NC rows, mean near $256. Keep the stored spelling ASHEVILLE in the citation.

Why ASHEVILLE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Asheville give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ASHEVILLE, NC total $19,385,297 across 75,640 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. ASHEVILLE, NC is the stored Buncombe string. Charlotte is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $19,385,297. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $256 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

ASHEVILLE receipts versus local campaigns

A ASHEVILLE, NC tag records the contributor city on a federal itemization. It does not record where a ASHEVILLE candidate spent money. $19,385,297 can leave town. Unitemized federal gifts and NC state-office receipts sit outside the 75,640 lines.

Mail and office addresses that store ASHEVILLE still count. That is why Weaverville, Black Mountain, and Hendersonville should not be treated as the same book. About $256 per line is arithmetic on $19,385,297 and 75,640.

Reading ASHEVILLE against Charlotte

Place ASHEVILLE next to Charlotte only if both figures are contributor-city itemized federal receipts. A mountain-city volume book: 75,640 lines, $19,385,297, mean near $256.

Weaverville, Black Mountain, and Hendersonville remain other keys. Keep state NC so ASHEVILLE, NC is not added to a twin elsewhere. NC state-campaign totals are a different filing system than this FEC city extract.

NC ZIPs are not a substitute for ASHEVILLE

Do not back into a ASHEVILLE story from a ZIP you assume belongs there. This packet does not publish those codes. 75,640 city-field lines wait on the live hub and the ZIP directory for any geographic split.

Candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results are not in the packet. The extract’s numbers are $19,385,297 and 75,640 from FEC.gov for the city field ASHEVILLE, NC.

Packet facts for ASHEVILLE

$19,385,297 divided by 75,640 is about $256. Quote the pair. Quoting only the mean hides the line count. Repeat gifts add rows. Buncombe County is the geography of the string, not a summed county total.

Weaverville is next door on a map and separate on the tape. Cite $19,385,297 with 75,640 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live ASHEVILLE hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Researchers citing ASHEVILLE should keep state NC in the sentence so readers do not hunt a same-named place. The live city table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $19,385,297 or 75,640 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $256 as division only. Weaverville, Black Mountain, and Hendersonville remain other strings. The 75,640-line count still is not a headcount.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city ASHEVILLE, NC?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ASHEVILLE, NC total $19,385,297 across 75,640 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 Asheville. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $256 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Asheville folded into Charlotte on this extract?

No. ASHEVILLE, NC is the stored Buncombe string. Charlotte is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 75,640 itemized contributions for ASHEVILLE, NC against $19,385,297. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 75,640 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Asheville total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ASHEVILLE with state NC. Office addresses and mail that list Asheville can be part of $19,385,297 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 75,640-line count follows the same rule.

Are Asheville numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $19,385,297 and 75,640 lines for ASHEVILLE, NC. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from NC are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.