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Alabama's 7th district

Alabama's 7th district has 712,169 residents on 10,275 mi² of land. It is represented by Terri A. Sewell (D-AL-7). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $660.8M in FY2026.

Residents
712,169
Land area
10,275 mi²
Counties
13
Representative
Terri A. Sewell
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Map of Alabama's 7th district within Alabama

Members for this district

Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.

Senators

The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.

Counties

Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).

  1. Jefferson County57% of the district · 61% of the county
  2. Tuscaloosa County20% of the district · 60% of the county
  3. Dallas County5.2% of the district · 100% of the county
  4. Marengo County2.6% of the district · 100% of the county
  5. Pickens County2.6% of the district · 100% of the county
  6. Hale County2.1% of the district · 100% of the county
  7. Clarke County2.1% of the district · 66% of the county
  8. Choctaw County1.7% of the district · 100% of the county
  9. Sumter County1.7% of the district · 100% of the county
  10. Wilcox County1.4% of the district · 100% of the county
  11. Lowndes County1.4% of the district · 100% of the county
  12. Perry County1.1% of the district · 100% of the county
  13. Greene County1.0% of the district · 100% of the county

Federal contracts

Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.

Obligations · FY2026
$660.8M
Per resident
$928
Rank in Alabama
4 of 7
Contract actions
61.8K
New awards: 60.5K

By fiscal year

  1. 246MFY2017
  2. 253MFY2018
  3. 332.4MFY2019
  4. 260.3MFY2020
  5. 281.4MFY2021
  6. 735.2MFY2022
  7. 362.7MFY2023
  8. 458.8MFY2024
  9. 467.2MFY2025
  10. 660.8MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of State$322.8M49%
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs$93.7M14%
  3. Department of the Army$76.8M12%
    Department of Defense
  4. Defense Logistics Agency$71M11%
    Department of Defense
  5. Federal Bureau of Investigation$27.1M4.1%
    Department of Justice
  6. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$13.3M2.0%
    Department of Justice
  7. Office of Procurement Operations$8M1.2%
    Department of Homeland Security
  8. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$5.4M0.8%

Top recipients

  1. CADDELL CONSTRUCTION CO. (DE), LLC$321M49%
    1 award
  2. BL HARBERT INTERNATIONAL LLC$52.2M7.9%
    5 awards
  3. FORESTWOOD FARM, INC.$39M5.9%
    58,939 awards
  4. AMERICAN APPAREL, INC.$29M4.4%
    41 awards
  5. BRASFIELD & GORRIE LLC$20.8M3.1%
    5 awards
  6. PINTER MEMORIALS INC$19.1M2.9%
    21 awards
  7. STEWARD MACHINE CO INC$15.7M2.4%
    30 awards
  8. COBURN CONTRACTORS, LLC$13.9M2.1%
    2 awards
  9. UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$9.9M1.5%
    38 awards
  10. BIRMINGHAM INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION, LLC$9.1M1.4%
    6 awards

Other boundaries

District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.