ZIP 35801: $17.7 million across 41,992 FEC lines

A Rocket City ZIP without an employer split

$17,679,879 divided by 41,992 is about $421 per itemized line. Huntsville’s defense-and-NASA reputation tempts readers to treat the total as a contractor census. The packet does not support that. It publishes a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not publish a unique-donor count or an employer field.

Forty-one thousand nine hundred ninety-two contributions is a working list. Households, office parks, and any committee that files 35801 all add rows. Do not treat 41,992 as a census of Huntsville.

LobbyVault does not convert $17,679,879 into a ranking of Alabama civic mood. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 35801.

Huntsville’s 35801 key is not Research Park. $17,679,879 across 41,992 contributions is near-downtown and older-neighborhood mail as filed. Defense folklore stays off this page because this packet has no employer field. Keep 41,992 as a line count. The $421 mean is a ratio. Recheck the ZIP 35801 FEC page after quarterly filings. 35806 is a different key. FEC.gov controls.

Five Points and Twickenham mail on one key

35801 covers older Huntsville neighborhoods near downtown and Monte Sano’s western slope. A filer who lists a household, a filer who lists an office, and a joint fundraising committee that uses a 35801 suite all land in the same bucket. $17,679,879 is that bucket. It is not a resident-only book.

Open named receipts on the ZIP 35801 FEC page if you need to see which committees appear. This guide will not guess the mix inside 41,992 lines.

What stays outside $17,679,879

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Alabama state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter. Cite $17,679,879 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 35801.

A restated joint-fundraising transfer can move the dollar headline more than hundreds of small lines. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings. This prose is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Huntsville’s 35801 key is older-neighborhood and near-downtown mail, not Research Park. $17,679,879 across 41,992 contributions is this key only. Defense folklore is not an employer field in this packet. Keep 41,992 as a line count. This packet has no unique-donor count. The $421 mean is arithmetic.

Alabama local campaigns never enter this federal roll-up. Recheck the ZIP 35801 FEC page after quarterly filings. Other Huntsville keys have their own totals in the all-ZIP directory. Named receipts show which committees appear. FEC.gov remains the original filing.

35801 beside 35802 and 35806

South Huntsville and Research Park are different mail keys. Adding them to 35801 and calling the sum a city FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $17,679,879 for 35801 only.

The all-ZIP directory is the inventory for that comparison. Compare 41,992 against those peers rather than against a Chapel Hill ZIP with 72,000 lines. Filing shape is local to how addresses were entered.

Where to read Huntsville rows

The ZIP 35801 FEC page holds $17,679,879 and 41,992 as currently indexed. The all-ZIP directory places the code among others. The donor directory lists names on itemized receipts. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls.

Filtering the donor directory to 35801 should reconcile to the ZIP hub, not to a homemade $421 average. When a name search and 41,992 disagree, the ZIP roll-up is the geographic total. No contractor map is attached to this figure.

Huntsville without a contractor census

35801 posts $17,679,879 across 41,992 contributions, about $421 per line. Defense-and-NASA folklore is not an employer field. The packet has two facts. It has no unique-donor count and no occupation split. Quote $17,679,879 and 41,992. Leave the mix to named receipts on the ZIP 35801 FEC page.

35802 and 35806 are other Huntsville keys. Adding them to 35801 manufactures a city figure. If you need that figure, list every ZIP. Keep 41,992 as the 35801 line count. The all-ZIP directory is the inventory.

Alabama state filings sit outside $17,679,879. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings. The donor directory is not a second copy of $17,679,879. When a name search disagrees with 41,992, the ZIP roll-up is the geographic total. FEC.gov remains the original filing.

If a later Commission extract reprints 35801, compare it to $17,679,879 and 41,992 on the live hub before quoting this snapshot. This is not Research Park. Named receipts remain the way to see committees. The donor directory is not a second copy of those two facts.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 35801?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 35801 total $17,679,879 across 41,992 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Huntsville residents or contractors. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $421 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 35801?

LobbyVault counts 41,992 itemized contributions for ZIP 35801. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and office-address batches can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $17,679,879.

Does ZIP 35801 measure only Huntsville residents?

No. The ZIP is the five-digit contributor code on the FEC itemization. Office parks and committees that file 35801 can be part of $17,679,879 when that is what was entered. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only or contractor-only book. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 35801 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,679,879 and 41,992 lines for ZIP 35801. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Alabama state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.