Federal contributions from ZIP 48226: $14.6M

Eighteen thousand downtown lines

$14,600,185 divided by 18,009 is about $811 per itemized line. Eighteen thousand nine rows is a shorter list than intown ZIPs with 70,000 contributions. The mean is correspondingly higher. That is arithmetic, not a median and not a typical household gift.

The packet has a dollar total and a contribution count. It does not have a unique-donor count. Do not treat 18,009 as a census of downtown Detroit. Office towers, arena-adjacent suites, and any committee that prints 48226 all add rows. LobbyVault does not treat $14,600,185 as a ranking of Detroit civic mood.

Downtown is not 48201 and not the whole city

Midtown 48201 and other 482xx codes are different roll-ups. A downtown firm and a committee mailbox can share 48226. $14,600,185 follows the form. Open the ZIP 48226 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not split the 18,009 rows into household and office piles.

Michigan state-office filings are a different dataset. Adding 48226 to other Detroit ZIPs and calling the sum a city FEC total is a recode you must document.

What $14,600,185 leaves out

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. Michigan state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter, even if they mention a Detroit race. Cite $14,600,185 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 48226. Amendments can restate large transfers without touching most of the 18,009 lines. Recheck the live hub after quarterly filings.

Live hub for 48226

The ZIP 48226 FEC page holds $14,600,185 and 18,009 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. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count.

Reading 48226 next to the rest of the ZIP directory

The all-ZIP directory exists so 48226 can be placed among other five-digit keys without turning $14,600,185 into a metro story. downtown Detroit sits in Wayne County. Peers include other 482xx codes. Each peer has its own total. 18,009 lines at $14,600,185 ($14.6M) is the local shape. A peer with similar dollars and half the rows will show a higher mean; that contrast is the point of keeping keys separate.

Do not build a Wayne County FEC total by addition unless you list every ZIP you included. Michigan state-office filings still sit outside every one of those keys. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside them too. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count for 48226, so a Wayne County donor census is also out of reach from these facts.

Citation template: contributor ZIP 48226, $14,600,185, 18,009 itemized contributions, FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. Add that the mean is about $811 only if you also say it is dollars divided by lines. Then send the reader to the ZIP 48226 FEC page for names and to the donor directory for person-level itemizations.

Keep the unit of analysis explicit. 48226 is a five-digit contributor ZIP on FEC itemizations covering downtown Detroit. $14,600,185 is the itemized-dollar total. 18,009 is the itemized-line total. $14.6M is $14,600,185 rounded. About $811 is those dollars divided by those lines. Wayne County is map context. other 482xx codes are other keys. Michigan state-office activity is out of scope. Unitemized federal gifts are out of scope. This packet does not publish a unique-donor count, so do not cite one. Open the ZIP 48226 FEC page for the live index, the all-ZIP directory for peers, and the donor directory for names on itemized receipts. If those tools and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls. Cite the ZIP, the dollars, and the line count together.

LobbyVault publishes this 48226 guide so the hub at /zip-codes/48226/ is not a table without sentences. The canonical path /guides/zip-48226-political-donations/ is the standalone URL. Both pages should show the same two facts: $14,600,185 and 18,009 contributions. Neither page invents a unique-donor count. Neither page converts $14.6M into a forecast. Readers who want the row list should use the hub. Readers who want the explanation should stay on the guide. The ZIP remains the five-digit contributor field on FEC itemizations, indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. A complete citation names ZIP 48226, $14,600,185, 18,009 lines, and FEC.gov as the source of the underlying receipts.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 48226?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 48226 total $14,600,185 across 18,009 contributions. The compact headline is $14.6M. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of downtown Detroit. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 48226?

LobbyVault counts 18,009 itemized contributions for ZIP 48226. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts can add rows. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total is $14,600,185. The mean of about $811 is dollars divided by lines.

Does ZIP 48226 cover all of Detroit?

No. 48226 is the downtown mail key. Other Detroit ZIPs are separate roll-ups. Committees and office addresses that file 48226 can be part of $14,600,185. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a citywide or residential-only book. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear. This packet still does not publish a unique-donor count.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 48226 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $14,600,185 and 18,009 lines for ZIP 48226. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and Michigan state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission’s filing controls.