Table 29.

Direct general expenditures per capita of state and local governments for all functions and for education, by level of education and state: 2005–06

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	$7,087	$2,431	34.3	$1,672	23.6	$640	9.0	$119	1.7
Alabama	6,680	2,372	35.5	1,425	21.3	814	12.2	134	2.0
Alaska	13,968	3,666	26.2	2,682	19.2	864	6.2	120	0.9
Arizona	5,797	1,914	33.0	1,255	21.6	580	10.0	79	1.4
Arkansas	5,900	2,271	38.5	1,470	24.9	678	11.5	123	2.1
California	8,050	2,534	31.5	1,759	21.8	668	8.3	107	1.3
Colorado	6,475	2,301	35.5	1,561	24.1	668	10.3	72	1.1
Connecticut	7,842	2,833	36.1	2,085	26.6	606	7.7	142	1.8
Delaware	8,740	3,100	35.5	1,894	21.7	1,011	11.6	196	2.2
District of Columbia	13,763	2,541	18.5	2,348	17.1	193	1.4	#	#
Florida	6,779	1,954	28.8	1,438	21.2	412	6.1	104	1.5
Georgia	5,789	2,274	39.3	1,645	28.4	484	8.4	145	2.5
Hawaii	7,659	2,266	29.6	1,507	19.7	728	9.5	31	0.4
Idaho	5,746	1,961	34.1	1,266	22.0	607	10.6	87	1.5
Illinois	6,561	2,295	35.0	1,612	24.6	578	8.8	104	1.6
Indiana	6,319	2,357	37.3	1,548	24.5	685	10.8	124	2.0
Iowa	6,910	2,609	37.8	1,563	22.6	927	13.4	118	1.7
Kansas	6,528	2,437	37.3	1,490	22.8	875	13.4	73	1.1
Kentucky	6,020	2,069	34.4	1,232	20.5	654	10.9	183	3.0
Louisiana	7,108	2,129	30.0	1,391	19.6	572	8.1	166	2.3
Maine	7,541	2,269	30.1	1,612	21.4	541	7.2	117	1.5
Maryland	7,013	2,563	36.5	1,731	24.7	721	10.3	110	1.6
Massachusetts	8,143	2,645	32.5	1,803	22.1	551	6.8	291	3.6
Michigan	6,590	2,609	39.6	1,707	25.9	822	12.5	80	1.2
Minnesota	7,502	2,527	33.7	1,722	23.0	658	8.8	146	1.9
Mississippi	6,614	2,209	33.4	1,373	20.8	732	11.1	104	1.6
Missouri	5,911	2,043	34.6	1,426	24.1	529	8.9	88	1.5
Montana	6,591	2,287	34.7	1,431	21.7	708	10.7	148	2.3
Nebraska	6,610	2,459	37.2	1,541	23.3	821	12.4	98	1.5
Nevada	6,451	2,055	31.9	1,526	23.7	470	7.3	60	0.9
New Hampshire	6,196	2,386	38.5	1,739	28.1	579	9.4	67	1.1
New Jersey	8,159	3,185	39.0	2,512	30.8	562	6.9	110	1.4
New Mexico	7,606	2,669	35.1	1,564	20.6	958	12.6	147	1.9
New York	10,086	2,962	29.4	2,354	23.3	506	5.0	102	1.0
North Carolina	6,312	2,254	35.7	1,299	20.6	888	14.1	67	1.1
North Dakota	7,100	2,619	36.9	1,492	21.0	1,041	14.7	86	1.2
Ohio	7,148	2,505	35.1	1,732	24.2	621	8.7	153	2.1
Oklahoma	5,820	2,243	38.5	1,402	24.1	735	12.6	106	1.8
Oregon	6,843	2,253	32.9	1,391	20.3	796	11.6	66	1.0
Pennsylvania	7,184	2,527	35.2	1,744	24.3	534	7.4	249	3.5
Rhode Island	7,725	2,538	32.9	1,833	23.7	559	7.2	147	1.9
South Carolina	6,724	2,445	36.4	1,606	23.9	649	9.7	190	2.8
South Dakota	5,967	1,968	33.0	1,293	21.7	555	9.3	120	2.0
Tennessee	5,694	1,805	31.7	1,224	21.5	472	8.3	109	1.9
Texas	5,881	2,384	40.5	1,641	27.9	665	11.3	78	1.3
Utah	6,122	2,328	38.0	1,290	21.1	935	15.3	103	1.7
Vermont	7,874	3,252	41.3	1,995	25.3	1,066	13.5	191	2.4
Virginia	6,593	2,518	38.2	1,721	26.1	697	10.6	100	1.5
Washington	7,063	2,400	34.0	1,492	21.1	742	10.5	166	2.3
West Virginia	6,288	2,354	37.4	1,432	22.8	692	11.0	230	3.7
Wisconsin	7,093	2,580	36.4	1,680	23.7	813	11.5	87	1.2
Wyoming	10,425	3,287	31.5	2,207	21.2	956	9.2	125	1.2

# 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 2006. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Governmental Finances, retrieved July 15, 2008, from http://www.census.gov/govs/www/estimate06.html; and GCT-T1 Population Estimates, retrieved July 15, 2008, from http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCT Table?_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 July 2008.)