Table 29.

Direct general expenditures per capita of state and local governments for all functions and for education, by level of education and state: 2004–05

State	Total, all direct general expenditures per capita1	Education expenditures
		Total		Elementary and secondary education		Colleges and universities		Other education2
		Amount per capita	As a percent of all functions	Amount per capita	As a percent of all functions	Amount per capita	As a percent of all functions	Amount per capita	As a percent of all functions
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
United States	$6,778	$2,325	34.3	$1,597	23.6	$615	9.1	$113	1.7
Alabama	6,382	2,172	34.0	1,276	20.0	768	12.0	128	2.0
Alaska	13,261	3,560	26.8	2,608	19.7	824	6.2	129	1.0
Arizona	5,531	1,827	33.0	1,166	21.1	579	10.5	82	1.5
Arkansas	5,586	2,131	38.1	1,385	24.8	615	11.0	131	2.3
California	7,626	2,451	32.1	1,708	22.4	644	8.4	100	1.3
Colorado	6,217	2,173	34.9	1,483	23.9	626	10.1	64	1.0
Connecticut	7,488	2,599	34.7	1,937	25.9	558	7.5	103	1.4
Delaware	8,105	2,846	35.1	1,725	21.3	927	11.4	193	2.4
District of Columbia	12,446	2,296	18.4	2,121	17.0	174	1.4	#	#
Florida	6,339	1,803	28.4	1,312	20.7	403	6.4	88	1.4
Georgia	5,552	2,181	39.3	1,553	28.0	486	8.7	142	2.6
Hawaii	7,327	2,080	28.4	1,357	18.5	691	9.4	31	0.4
Idaho	5,640	1,939	34.4	1,245	22.1	600	10.6	94	1.7
Illinois	6,444	2,246	34.9	1,555	24.1	588	9.1	103	1.6
Indiana	6,096	2,333	38.3	1,538	25.2	677	11.1	117	1.9
Iowa	6,561	2,448	37.3	1,476	22.5	854	13.0	117	1.8
Kansas	6,112	2,285	37.4	1,384	22.6	831	13.6	70	1.2
Kentucky	5,618	1,977	35.2	1,187	21.1	615	10.9	175	3.1
Louisiana	6,329	1,993	31.5	1,303	20.6	527	8.3	162	2.6
Maine	7,216	2,174	30.1	1,558	21.6	508	7.0	108	1.5
Maryland	6,558	2,424	37.0	1,603	24.4	692	10.6	129	2.0
Massachusetts	7,731	2,502	32.4	1,711	22.1	494	6.4	297	3.8
Michigan	6,644	2,689	40.5	1,836	27.6	781	11.8	72	1.1
Minnesota	7,414	2,379	32.1	1,635	22.1	608	8.2	136	1.8
Mississippi	6,136	2,015	32.8	1,219	19.9	696	11.3	100	1.6
Missouri	5,625	1,945	34.6	1,353	24.0	500	8.9	93	1.7
Montana	6,148	2,117	34.4	1,336	21.7	657	10.7	124	2.0
Nebraska	6,236	2,352	37.7	1,481	23.7	784	12.6	88	1.4
Nevada	6,191	1,859	30.0	1,365	22.0	440	7.1	55	0.9
New Hampshire	5,995	2,215	36.9	1,632	27.2	515	8.6	67	1.1
New Jersey	7,582	3,054	40.3	2,409	31.8	550	7.2	95	1.3
New Mexico	7,317	2,533	34.6	1,541	21.1	885	12.1	108	1.5
New York	9,532	2,788	29.2	2,195	23.0	488	5.1	104	1.1
North Carolina	6,065	2,149	35.4	1,238	20.4	854	14.1	57	0.9
North Dakota	6,854	2,521	36.8	1,442	21.0	999	14.6	80	1.2
Ohio	6,794	2,398	35.3	1,666	24.5	588	8.7	145	2.1
Oklahoma	5,385	2,133	39.6	1,329	24.7	707	13.1	96	1.8
Oregon	6,520	2,166	33.2	1,346	20.6	750	11.5	69	1.1
Pennsylvania	6,957	2,434	35.0	1,674	24.1	528	7.6	232	3.3
Rhode Island	7,492	2,487	33.2	1,713	22.9	481	6.4	293	3.9
South Carolina	6,593	2,299	34.9	1,503	22.8	613	9.3	183	2.8
South Dakota	5,738	1,961	34.2	1,315	22.9	547	9.5	99	1.7
Tennessee	5,691	1,727	30.3	1,174	20.6	459	8.1	93	1.6
Texas	5,728	2,304	40.2	1,579	27.6	652	11.4	72	1.3
Utah	5,831	2,217	38.0	1,250	21.4	877	15.0	91	1.6
Vermont	7,598	3,060	40.3	1,934	25.5	941	12.4	185	2.4
Virginia	6,161	2,325	37.7	1,594	25.9	645	10.5	86	1.4
Washington	7,050	2,338	33.2	1,467	20.8	719	10.2	151	2.1
West Virginia	6,124	2,185	35.7	1,347	22.0	606	9.9	233	3.8
Wisconsin	6,825	2,497	36.6	1,621	23.8	792	11.6	84	1.2
Wyoming	9,979	3,137	31.4	2,024	20.3	933	9.3	181	1.8

# Rounds to zero. 1 Includes state and local government expenditures for education services, social services and income maintenance, transportation, public safety, environment and housing, govern­mental administration, interest on general debt, and other general expenditures. 2 Includes assistance and subsidies to individuals, private elementary and secondary schools, and colleges and universities, as well as miscellaneous education expenditures. NOTE: Per capita amounts are based on population figures as of July 2005. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Governmental Finances, retrieved on July 24, 2007, from http://www.census.gov/govs/www/estimate05.html; and GCT—T1 Population Estimates, retrieved August 8, 2007, http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-T1&-ds_name=PEP_2006_EST&-_lang=en&-_format=US-9&-_sse=on. (This table was pre­pared August 2007.)