ZIP Code 48104

High line count, modest mean

Eighty-eight thousand two hundred eighty-two itemized receipts add to $25,182,627. The mean is about $285 per line ($25,182,627 / 88,282). That pairing is a high-volume college-town pattern: many receipts, a few-hundred-dollar mean, eight-figure dollars. A mean in that band usually means many modest itemizations with a thinner tail of larger checks.

Sort the ZIP 48104 FEC page by amount to inspect the tail. The mean can look ordinary even if a few transfers are large, because 88,282 lines dilute them. Receipt count is not unique people. This packet has no donor-distinct figure. Treat 88,282 as lines on committee reports, not as a census of Ann Arbor.

Ann Arbor is not a single ZIP. 48104 is one central-south code. Neighboring campus and west-side codes have their own hubs. Rank them on the all-ZIP index. Adding 48104 to those codes is a recode FEC.gov did not publish on this table.

Federal money in a university ZIP

Searchers often want a University of Michigan political-money story. This packet is federal only. State-office campaigns that file with Michigan’s Bureau of Elections sit outside $25,182,627. Keep the federal ZIP total as a federal ZIP total. Mixing the two would invent a combined figure this packet does not contain.

Occupation and employer strings live on individual receipts. This ZIP rollup does not tally them. A faculty-or-hospital story that cites $25,182,627 without opening those strings is using a ZIP total as a substitute for an employer table it does not have. Itemized federal receipts are the only rows in $25,182,627. Gifts that never crossed the FEC itemization line do not appear. A campus ZIP with 88,282 lines can still omit small unitemized gifts, so the table is a floor on disclosed federal activity tagged 48104, not a complete ledger of every dollar that left Ann Arbor. Repeat givers can occupy many of the 88,282 rows. Two itemizations from the same person in different cycles still count as two lines. LobbyVault’s packet does not collapse those rows into unique people. Anyone quoting 88,282 as a headcount is misreading a receipt file.

Questions

How much did ZIP 48104 itemize in federal contributions?

LobbyVault’s ZIP aggregate shows $25,182,627 across 88,282 FEC contributions listing 48104, sourced from FEC.gov. The five-digit field is the contributor ZIP on each receipt. The mean is about $285 per line, which is not a unique-donor average.

Does 48104 include Michigan state campaign filings?

No. $25,182,627 is federal itemizations from FEC.gov that list contributor ZIP 48104. Michigan state-office campaigns sit outside this total. Mixing the two would invent a combined Ann Arbor figure this packet does not contain. The 88,282-line count is federal receipts only.

Does 48104 cover all of Ann Arbor?

No. 48104 is one five-digit code used on the south and central side. Other Ann Arbor ZIPs have separate FEC hubs with their own dollar totals. Compare them on the all-ZIP index. The $25,182,627 figure is only the itemizations labeled 48104.

Where can I see 48104 receipts?

On the ZIP 48104 FEC page, which lists the table behind $25,182,627 and 88,282 receipts. Rank other mailing codes on the all-ZIP index. Use the donor directory for person-level records. LobbyVault’s 48104 packet reports the dollar total and the contribution count only.