JERSEY CITY, NJ: $24.8M on 68,120 FEC receipts

Jersey City is not New York on the FEC city key

The headline pair is $24,839,922 and 68,120 lines. The implied average is about $365. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Jersey City book.

Hudson County’s Jersey City string is separate from Hoboken, Newark, and New York on the FEC city key. Filers typed JERSEY CITY in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state NJ. 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.

If a newsroom map paints Jersey City together with Hoboken and Manhattan, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $24,839,922 on 68,120 JERSEY CITY, NJ rows, mean near $365. Do not fold Jersey City into New York because the skyline looks contiguous.

Why JERSEY CITY on the receipt is not a census of Jersey City

Searchers often want “how much did people in Jersey City give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city JERSEY CITY, NJ total $24,839,922 across 68,120 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $24,839,922. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Jersey City itemized book

$24,839,922 is not spending by Jersey City candidates. A candidate who lives in Jersey City can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged JERSEY CITY, NJ can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $365 does not describe a median resident of Jersey City. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Hoboken, Newark, or a New York mail stamp is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $24,839,922 counts rows that stored JERSEY CITY, NJ. 68,120 lines. About $365 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

Jersey City’s mid-mean Hudson County book

Jersey City is a mid-mean book on this extract: 68,120 lines produce $24,839,922, a mean near $365. Mid-mean is not the same as unique people.

Comparing Jersey City’s mean to Hoboken is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in New Jersey state data breaks the comparison.

A Jersey City total of $24,839,922 does not absorb Hoboken, Newark, or New York. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State NJ stays on the citation so JERSEY CITY, NJ is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in NJ

68,120 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 Jersey City 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 Jersey City 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 $24,839,922

A mean of about $365 is division of $24,839,922 by 68,120. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Jersey City.

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

Jersey City’s $24,839,922 across 68,120 contributions is a Hudson County city field, mean near $365. Hoboken is next door on the map and separate on the FEC key. Newark is another string. Hudson County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. New Jersey state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $24,839,922 with 68,120 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Jersey City should keep Hudson County and New York off the sentence unless they add those hubs on purpose. The live Jersey City table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $24,839,922 or 68,120 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $365 as division only. New Jersey state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Jersey City code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Hoboken and Newark remain other strings. The 68,120-line count still is not a headcount of Jersey City people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Jersey City, NJ?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city JERSEY CITY, NJ total $24,839,922 across 68,120 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 Jersey City. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is Jersey City folded into New York’s FEC city total?

No. LobbyVault counts 68,120 itemized contributions for JERSEY CITY, NJ against $24,839,922. New York is a different city string. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 68,120 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Jersey City total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed JERSEY CITY with state NJ. Office addresses and mail that list Jersey City can be part of $24,839,922 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 68,120-line count follows the same rule.

Are Jersey City numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $24,839,922 and 68,120 lines for JERSEY CITY, NJ. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from NJ are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $365 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.