Congressional district · Boundaries of the 119th Congress

New Jersey's 12th district

New Jersey's 12th district has 779,137 residents on 438 mi² of land. It is represented by Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $535.6M in FY2026.

Residents
779,137
Land area
438 mi²
Counties
4
Representative
Bonnie Watson Coleman
Map of New Jersey's 12th district within New Jersey

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. Middlesex County42% of the district · 37% of the county
  2. Mercer County27% of the district · 54% of the county
  3. Somerset County24% of the district · 54% of the county
  4. Union County7.1% of the district · 9.5% 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
$535.6M
Per resident
$687
Rank in New Jersey
5 of 12
Contract actions
2,419
New awards: 1,665

By fiscal year

  1. 479.1MFY2017
  2. 530.5MFY2018
  3. 624.2MFY2019
  4. 489.5MFY2020
  5. 490.1MFY2021
  6. 527.6MFY2022
  7. 951.2MFY2023
  8. 645.6MFY2024
  9. 624.3MFY2025
  10. 535.6MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Agriculture
  2. Department of Defense
  3. Department of Health and Human Services
  4. Department of Defense
  5. Department of Commerce

Top recipients

  1. 6 awards
  2. 25 awards
  3. 18 awards
  4. 1 award
  5. OTICON, INC$22.6M4.2%
    15 awards
  6. 6 awards
  7. EDESIA, INC.$13.9M2.6%
    4 awards
  8. 11 awards
  9. 3 awards
  10. 2 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.