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California's 38th district

California's 38th district has 736,104 residents on 149 mi² of land. It is represented by Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA-38). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $1.1B in FY2026.

Residents
736,104
Land area
149 mi²
Counties
2
Representative
Linda T. Sánchez
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Map of California's 38th 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. Los Angeles County92% of the district · 6.9% of the county
  2. Orange County8.0% of the district · 1.9% 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
$1.1B
Per resident
$1,531
Rank in California
15 of 52
Contract actions
16.5K
New awards: 13.8K

By fiscal year

  1. 842.4MFY2017
  2. 894.2MFY2018
  3. 854.4MFY2019
  4. 947.6MFY2020
  5. 1.1BFY2021
  6. 544.5MFY2022
  7. 572.6MFY2023
  8. 524.5MFY2024
  9. 495MFY2025
  10. 1.1BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Army$743.6M66%
    Department of Defense
  2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$137.1M12%
  3. Defense Logistics Agency$127.8M11%
    Department of Defense
  4. U.S. Customs and Border Protection$54.8M4.9%
    Department of Homeland Security
  5. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$17M1.5%
    Department of Defense
  6. Agricultural Marketing Service$13.3M1.2%
    Department of Agriculture
  7. Department of the Air Force$10.3M0.9%
    Department of Defense
  8. Federal Prison Industries / Unicor$6.4M0.6%
    Department of Justice

Top recipients

  1. BARNARD CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INCORPORATED$738.8M66%
    1 award
  2. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$134.7M12%
    393 awards
  3. US FOODS INC$106.5M9.4%
    9,945 awards
  4. ASTROPHYSICS INC$58.7M5.2%
    17 awards
  5. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$24.3M2.2%
    29 awards
  6. LANGER JUICE CO INC$9.3M0.8%
    8 awards
  7. GOODRICH CORPORATION$7.5M0.7%
    10 awards
  8. IMPRES TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC$7M0.6%
    13 awards
  9. TROY SHEET METAL WORKS, INC.$6.4M0.6%
    24 awards
  10. VACCO INDUSTRIES$4.8M0.4%
    354 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.