Congressional district · Boundaries of the 119th Congress

California's 16th district

California's 16th district has 752,862 residents on 529 mi² of land. It is represented by Sam T. Liccardo (D-CA-16). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $2.1B in FY2026.

Residents
752,862
Land area
529 mi²
Counties
2
Representative
Sam T. Liccardo
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Map of California's 16th district within California

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. Santa Clara County84% of the district · 33% of the county
  2. San Mateo County16% of the district · 16% 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
$2.1B
Per resident
$2,754
Rank in California
7 of 52
Contract actions
3,625
New awards: 1,285

By fiscal year

  1. 1BFY2017
  2. 993.4MFY2018
  3. 1.2BFY2019
  4. 1.3BFY2020
  5. 1BFY2021
  6. 1.2BFY2022
  7. 1.1BFY2023
  8. 1.4BFY2024
  9. 1.5BFY2025
  10. 2.1BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Army$916M44%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of Energy$399.5M19%
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs$203.8M9.8%
  4. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$160.9M7.8%
  5. Department of State$76.4M3.7%
  6. Social Security Administration$61.1M2.9%
  7. Department of the Air Force$39.6M1.9%
    Department of Defense
  8. Washington Headquarters Services$34.3M1.7%
    Department of Defense

Top recipients

  1. PALANTIR USG INC$1B48%
    35 awards
  2. THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$425.4M21%
    31 awards
  3. CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORP$60.8M2.9%
    3 awards
  4. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$58M2.8%
    10 awards
  5. VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC$29.4M1.4%
    49 awards
  6. SRI INTERNATIONAL$28M1.4%
    97 awards
  7. R4 INTEGRATION INC$22.7M1.1%
    2 awards
  8. INUTEQ, LLC$22M1.1%
    17 awards
  9. PERSONALIS, INC.$18.3M0.9%
    2 awards
  10. JARIA LLC$17.5M0.8%
    1 award

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.