U.S. Locations with Most Federally Owned Office Space

The federal government owns hundreds of millions of square feet of office space around the country – most of it is in Washington, D.C., California, and Maryland – and it’s all now a target of the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency.

DOGE, headed by Elon Musk, is working to pare back this space as part of its bid to slash spending. The task force is also looking to make these workspaces “so crappy” that federal workers won’t want to work there anymore, as one official from the General Services Administration, which manages the feds’ properties, put it.

Some of the federal government’s offices are outdated, and it could cost up to $8.6 billion to modernize the 25 buildings in most need of refurbishment, NBC Washington reported.

“You really need to make the tough decisions in terms of: What am I going to keep and what am I going to get rid of?” one Obama-era GSA official told the outlet. “Because you don't have the money that you need to maintain all the buildings that you currently own.”

Which locations may be the most exposed to the shedding of these properties? Here are the states and U.S. territories where the government owns the most space, as of the end of January.