District 4 - Oakland


How does funding for local agencies differ district to district? Using E-76 obligation data, we can gain insight to how agencies in District 4 use federal program funds, and help identify DLA‘s core customers.

Quick Stats

There are 151 Unique Agencies
Out of 3,457 obligations, 65 have transit-related project types
Metropolitan Transportation Commission has the highest transit obligations
There are 8 agencies have over 92.70 obligations (95th percentile) since 2011
There are 10 agencies have less than 2.00 obligations (5th percentile) since 2011

Number of Unique Prefix Codes by Agency

Agency Number Of Unqiue Prefix Codes
Contra Costa County 18
San Francisco County 17
San Jose 17
Santa Clara County 17
Alameda County 16

Number of Unique Agencies by Prefix Codes

Prefix Number Of Unqiue Agencies
STPL 112
CML 90
HSIPL 52
BRLS 32
RPSTPL 30

Top 5 Types of Work

Type Of Work
FTA Transfer
Bridge Replacement
Road Rehabilitation
Pavement Rehabilitation
Seismic Retrofit

Obligations


Obligations indicate a unique entry in the E-76 dataset. By counting the obligations for each year, district, and organization, we can see what the volume each as well which organizations are the most and last frequent customers.

Metrics:

  • Obligations by Year

  • Number of Unique Agencies by District

  • Agencies With The Most Obligations

Number of Obligations by Year

Number of Unique Agencies by District

Agencies With The Most Obligations

Prefix Codes


Prefix Codes refer to the program an obligation is in. Similar to the number of obligations, calcuating the unique prefix codes provides insight to how many progams DLA is involved in each year as well as workload at the district and organization level.

Metrics:

  • Number of Unique Prefix Codes by Districts

  • Most Used Prefix Codes

  • Agencies With The Most Unique Prefix Codes

Number of Unique Prefix Codes by District

Most Used Prefix Codes

Agencies With The Most Unique Prefix Codes

Funding Distributions


With each E-76, three types of funding amounts are included in the obligations:

  • Total Requested (total_requested)

  • Advance Construction Requested (ac_requested)

  • Federal Requested (fed_requested)

Using this information, we can determine how much on average an organization recieves with these funds, and the distribution of the funds.

Metrics:

  • Average Total Requested Funds by Agency

  • Lowest Average Total Funds by Agency

  • Average Total Requested Funds by Prefix

Average Total Requested Funds by Agency ($2021)

Lowest Average Total Funds by Agency ($2021)

Average Total Requested Funds by Prefix ($2021)

Work Categories


While the data includes a description column, organizations have the option to manually input the descriptions. Using the organizations descriptions of the obligattion type, we can categorize the obligations in terms of types of work. We used the following type of work categories:

  • Active Transportation

  • Transit

  • Bridge

  • Street

  • Freeway

  • Infrastructure/Resiliency/Emergency Relief

  • Congestion Relief

With these categories, we can determine which organizations have the most obligations in that category and what percent of the category that organization accounts for.