Urban Institute Data Tool Tells Infrastructure Funding Story

A new data dashboard from the Urban Institute starts to flesh out how federal infrastructure funding is allocated across sectors, and in jurisdictions like states, counties and congressional districts.

Government Technology By Skip Descant March 25, 2025 

Federal transportation infrastructure funding has been directed toward those parts of the country where workers experience long commutes. Broadband funding has been allocated to counties where fewer residents have Internet access, compared to the national average.

These realities seem to satisfy some of the broad policy goals implied and directly stated by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a $1.2 trillion package to replace aging infrastructure and position the nation on a path toward new forms of mobility and upgraded communications technologies.

Policymakers, advocates, critics and others can get a detailed look at these trends with the new Spending on Infrastructure Toward Equity (SITE) tool, a dashboard evaluating the funding allocation across numerous categories and locations, to give a better understanding of where it is being directed. Released March 13, SITE was developed by the Urban Institute. Users can search according to state, congressional district or county, across major categories like housing, transportation and infrastructure, to see infrastructure funding distribution through the prism of various metrics and categories in fiscal years 2022 and 2023.

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