ARLINGTON, TX: $20.0M on 116,851 FEC receipts

116,851 lines behind ARLINGTON's $20.0M

ARLINGTON shows 116,851 itemizations behind $19,982,828. That is a receipt count, not a unique-person census. A file this long at $20.0M 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 $171.

ARLINGTON, TX is a Tarrant County DFW string, not Arlington, Virginia. State TX must stay on the citation. This is a high-volume book: 116,851 lines against $20.0 million, a mean near $171. Fort Worth and Dallas are other keys. 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 $19,982,828 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of ARLINGTON gave. The 116,851 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints ARLINGTON together with Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, and Dallas, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $19,982,828 on 116,851 ARLINGTON, TX rows, mean near $171. Keep the stored spelling ARLINGTON in the citation.

Why ARLINGTON on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Arlington give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ARLINGTON, TX total $19,982,828 across 116,851 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. This extract is ARLINGTON with state TX. Arlington, VA is a different FEC city-and-state key. The 116,851-line count is receipts, not unique persons.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $19,982,828. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $171 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the ARLINGTON itemized book

$19,982,828 is not spending by ARLINGTON candidates. A candidate who lives in ARLINGTON can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged ARLINGTON, TX can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, and Dallas is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $19,982,828 counts rows that stored ARLINGTON, TX. 116,851 lines. About $171 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. TX state-office receipts are omitted.

ARLINGTON versus Fort Worth on the FEC tape

ARLINGTON is a Tarrant County high-volume book with a low mean. 116,851 lines produce $19,982,828, a mean near $171. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Fort Worth is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A ARLINGTON total of $19,982,828 does not absorb Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, and Dallas. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State TX stays on the citation so ARLINGTON, TX is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in TX state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in TX

116,851 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 ARLINGTON 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 ARLINGTON 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: $19,982,828 and 116,851.

Source tables for $19,982,828

A mean of about $171 is division of $19,982,828 by 116,851. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of ARLINGTON. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the ARLINGTON city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

ARLINGTON’s $19,982,828 across 116,851 contributions is a Tarrant County city field, mean near $171. Fort Worth is a neighboring string, not a subset. Tarrant County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $19,982,828 with 116,851 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 ARLINGTON, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ARLINGTON, TX total $19,982,828 across 116,851 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 Arlington. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $171 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is this Arlington, Virginia?

No. This extract is ARLINGTON with state TX. Arlington, VA is a different FEC city-and-state key. The 116,851-line count is receipts, not unique persons. LobbyVault counts 116,851 itemized contributions for ARLINGTON, TX against $19,982,828. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 116,851 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Arlington total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ARLINGTON with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Arlington can be part of $19,982,828 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 116,851-line count follows the same rule.

Are Arlington numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $19,982,828 and 116,851 lines for ARLINGTON, TX. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from TX are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.