Federal contributions itemized with ZIP 20817

Bethesda ZIP 20817 in federal filings

One hundred sixty-one thousand eight hundred sixty-four itemized lines add to $103,828,009. That is a high-volume Maryland ZIP: many receipts, nine-figure dollars. LobbyVault does not split federal contractors from physicians from committee staff. It stores the ZIP on each FEC line. Occupation text, when a filer supplied it, stays on the individual receipt.

Montgomery County ZIPs often mix homes with professional offices. A Bethesda street can host both. The $103,828,009 total is every itemization labeled 20817, not a certified resident-only subtotal. Anyone who wants only household rows has to read names on the hub table.

Beltway-adjacent ZIPs attract searchers looking for a contractor-money story. This packet cannot tell that story because it has no employer rollup. $103,828,009 and 161,864 receipts are the facts. Employer strings live on rows, not in the ZIP aggregate.

Mean amount on 161,864 receipts

$103,828,009 / 161,864 is about $641 per itemized receipt. The mean sits in the same band as several other high-volume East Coast ZIPs. It can hide a split between numerous modest itemizations and a thinner tail of large checks. Sort the ZIP 20817 FEC page by amount to inspect that tail. The mean will look stable even if a few transfers are large, as long as the receipt base is 161,864 lines deep.

Receipt count is not unique people. This packet has no donor-distinct figure. Treat 161,864 as lines on committee reports. Repeat itemizers across cycles add rows without adding new residents. Payroll-style deductions reported on separate dates do the same.

What 20817 is not

The aggregate is not a Maryland state-board total and not a Bethesda municipal report. It is federal itemizations from FEC.gov. It is also not a party index. FEC schedules do not score ZIP codes by ideology, and this packet does not invent one.

20817 is one Bethesda-area code. Neighboring Maryland ZIPs have their own hubs. Rank them on the all-ZIP index using the same itemization rules. Do not fold 20817 into a homemade Montgomery County total; that number is not in the packet.

Committee mail in a suburban ZIP

ZIP 20817 totals can include PAC and joint-fundraising addresses, not only residents. Suburban office parks and home offices both appear on FEC forms. If a receipt is large relative to the $641 mean, read the contributor name before calling it household giving. Bethesda’s mix of homes and professional buildings makes that check routine rather than exceptional.

Beltway context without extra 20817 statistics

Bethesda sits on a corridor of federal contractors, medical centers, and homes. That mix is why 20817 shows 161,864 receipts and $103,828,009, but the mix is not a packet fact beyond those two numbers. Employer strings live on individual receipts. This ZIP rollup does not tally them. A contractor-money story that cites $103,828,009 without opening those strings is using a ZIP total as a substitute for an employer table it does not have.

The $641 mean on a deep receipt base usually means many modest itemizations with a thinner tail. Confirm the tail on the ZIP 20817 FEC page. If the largest rows are PACs or joint-fundraising committees, note them. If they are personal names, note that instead. Either way, 161,864 remains a receipt count, not a unique-donor count, and not a census of Bethesda households.

Maryland state filings and Montgomery County reports are outside this hub. Do not add them to $103,828,009. Rank 20817 against other mailing codes on the all-ZIP index. Use the donor directory for names. Keep 20817 as one Bethesda-area code, not as a stand-in for the whole county.

Continuing from the 20817 hub

The ZIP 20817 FEC page lists the table behind $103,828,009. The all-ZIP index ranks other codes. The donor directory is the name-level path. This copy uses only the packet’s total and contribution count. Cycle splits, party labels, and occupation tallies are omitted because they are not packet facts. Cite $103,828,009 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 20817. Maryland state filings and unitemized federal gifts sit outside it. If the live hub reprints a different total or 161,864-line count, the newer FEC extract wins. The accurate sentence is: itemized federal receipts with contributor ZIP 20817 total $103,828,009 across 161,864 contributions, according to FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. A mean near $641 follows from division and is not a median resident.

Questions

How much did ZIP 20817 itemize in federal contributions?

LobbyVault’s ZIP aggregate shows $103,828,009 across 161,864 FEC contributions listing 20817, sourced from FEC.gov. The five-digit field is the contributor ZIP on each receipt. PAC and joint-fundraising addresses in the Bethesda area can be included. The mean is about $641 per line, which is not a unique-donor average.

What is the average 20817 contribution?

Dividing $103,828,009 by 161,864 receipts yields about $641 per line. That is a mean, not a median, and not a per-person average. This packet does not include a unique-donor count, so the receipt total should not be read as a headcount of Bethesda residents.

Does 20817 cover all of Bethesda?

No. 20817 is one five-digit code used in Bethesda, Maryland. Other local ZIPs have separate FEC hubs with their own dollar totals. Compare them on the all-ZIP index. The $103,828,009 figure is only the itemizations labeled 20817, including possible PAC and joint-fundraising addresses, not a citywide Bethesda census.

Where can I see 20817 receipts?

On the ZIP 20817 FEC page, which lists the table behind $103,828,009 and 161,864 receipts. Rank other mailing codes on the all-ZIP index. Use the donor directory for person-level records. LobbyVault’s 20817 packet reports the dollar total and the contribution count only. This packet has no unique-donor figure.