Congressional district · Boundaries of the 119th Congress

Florida's 16th district

Florida's 16th district has 829,723 residents on 1,154 mi² of land. It is represented by Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $69.2M in FY2026.

Residents
829,723
Land area
1,154 mi²
Counties
2
Representative
Vern Buchanan
Map of Florida's 16th district within Florida

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. Manatee County52% of the district · 100% of the county
  2. Hillsborough County48% of the district · 26% 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
$69.2M
Per resident
$83.36
Rank in Florida
26 of 28
Contract actions
1,397
New awards: 680

By fiscal year

  1. 98.7MFY2017
  2. 109.3MFY2018
  3. 112MFY2019
  4. 133.9MFY2020
  5. 188.7MFY2021
  6. 98.8MFY2022
  7. 109.6MFY2023
  8. 136.9MFY2024
  9. 129.3MFY2025
  10. 69.2MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Homeland Security
  2. Department of Defense
  3. Department of Defense
  4. General Services Administration
  5. Department of Defense
  6. Department of Defense
  7. Department of Justice

Top recipients

  1. 1 award
  2. 6 awards
  3. 1 award
  4. 1 award
  5. 1 award
  6. 9 awards
  7. 5 awards
  8. 1 award
  9. 1 award
  10. 4 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.