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Massachusetts's 6th district

Massachusetts's 6th district has 783,055 residents on 533 mi² of land. It is represented by Seth Moulton (D-MA-6). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $7.5B in FY2026.

Residents
783,055
Land area
533 mi²
Counties
2
Representative
Seth Moulton
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Map of Massachusetts's 6th district within Massachusetts

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. Essex County77% of the district · 74% of the county
  2. Middlesex County23% of the district · 11% 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
$7.5B
Per resident
$9,621
Rank in Massachusetts
1 of 9
Contract actions
5,400
New awards: 2,207

By fiscal year

  1. 4.4BFY2017
  2. 5.9BFY2018
  3. 5.4BFY2019
  4. 5.3BFY2020
  5. 5.4BFY2021
  6. 5.1BFY2022
  7. 7.4BFY2023
  8. 7.1BFY2024
  9. 8BFY2025
  10. 7.5BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Army$3.8B51%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of the Navy$1.1B15%
    Department of Defense
  3. Department of the Air Force$1.1B14%
    Department of Defense
  4. Defense Logistics Agency$805.7M11%
    Department of Defense
  5. Department of Veterans Affairs$154.9M2.1%
  6. Transportation Security Administration$125.6M1.7%
    Department of Homeland Security
  7. U.S. Coast Guard$87.4M1.2%
    Department of Homeland Security
  8. Defense Contract Management Agency$70M0.9%
    Department of Defense

Top recipients

  1. RAYTHEON COMPANY$3.4B45%
    110 awards
  2. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY$1.3B18%
    490 awards
  3. RAYTHEON COMPANY$969.7M13%
    49 awards
  4. THE MITRE CORPORATION$416.7M5.5%
    12 awards
  5. ODYSSEY SYSTEMS CONSULTING GROUP, LTD.$217.6M2.9%
    11 awards
  6. ANALOGIC CORP$117.9M1.6%
    10 awards
  7. APPLIED RESEARCH SOLUTIONS, INC.$110.6M1.5%
    1 award
  8. RAYTHEON SOUTHEAST ASIA SYSTEMS COMPANY$90.7M1.2%
    2 awards
  9. M. C. DEAN, INC.$83.2M1.1%
    4 awards
  10. VELICO MEDICAL, INC.$38.4M0.5%
    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.