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Texas's 16th district

Texas's 16th district has 739,696 residents on 315 mi² of land. It is represented by Veronica Escobar (D-TX-16). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $3.6B in FY2026.

Residents
739,696
Land area
315 mi²
Counties
1
Representative
Veronica Escobar
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Map of Texas's 16th district within Texas

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. El Paso County100% of the district · 85% 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
$3.6B
Per resident
$4,856
Rank in Texas
8 of 38
Contract actions
7,901
New awards: 5,521

By fiscal year

  1. 652.9MFY2017
  2. 889MFY2018
  3. 769.6MFY2019
  4. 1BFY2020
  5. 1.6BFY2021
  6. 2.3BFY2022
  7. 1.3BFY2023
  8. 797.6MFY2024
  9. 664.7MFY2025
  10. 3.6BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. U.S. Customs and Border Protection$2.1B58%
    Department of Homeland Security
  2. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$1.2B34%
    Department of Homeland Security
  3. Department of the Army$84.9M2.4%
    Department of Defense
  4. Defense Logistics Agency$59.1M1.6%
    Department of Defense
  5. Forest Service$40.4M1.1%
    Department of Agriculture
  6. Department of Veterans Affairs$19.8M0.6%
  7. Office of Procurement Operations$11.2M0.3%
    Department of Homeland Security
  8. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management$11M0.3%
    Department of Labor

Top recipients

  1. BARNARD CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INCORPORATED$1.6B44%
    1 award
  2. AMENTUM SERVICES, INC.$638.2M18%
    1 award
  3. ACQUISITION LOGISTICS LLC$580.8M16%
    1 award
  4. AMI METALS, INC$465.4M13%
    1 award
  5. MANAGEMENT & ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL INC$39M1.1%
    96 awards
  6. READYONE INDUSTRIES INC$28.9M0.8%
    21 awards
  7. VINCORION LLC$22.2M0.6%
    11 awards
  8. PARAGON SYSTEMS INC$11.2M0.3%
    10 awards
  9. PRAIRIE BAND CONSTRUCTION, INC.$11M0.3%
    1 award
  10. ALEUT-ODLE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT JV 2, LLC$11M0.3%
    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.