National Archives by the Numbers
(as of February 5, 2025)
Locations: 43 facilities in 17 states, plus the District of Columbia
Number of staff: 2,891
Size of permanent archival holdings:
- 13.5 billion pieces of paper
- More than 725,000 artifacts
- More than 450 million feet of film, or about 85,302 miles (enough to circle the earth almost 3.4 times)
- 41 million photographs
- 40 million aerial images
- 10 million maps, charts, and architectural/ engineering drawings
- More than 33 billion electronic records (837 terabytes)
New archival holdings: In 2024, the National Archives accessioned 88,498 cubic feet of analog records and 463 terabytes of electronic records into the permanent archival collection.
Digitized records in the National Archives Catalog: 358,368,712 pages
NARA digital images in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA): 17.8 million
NARA images in Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons: 1.53 million
Total number of views of NARA records on all Wiki platforms: 5 billion
National Archives Catalog page views for FY24: 86 million
National Archives Catalog page views for FY25 so far: 32.8 million
Number of public research rooms: 27
Number of research visits: 45,144 (2024)
Number of items furnished in NARA research rooms: 278,469 (2024)
Number of off-site reference requests fulfilled: 84,241 (2024)
Number of requests for veterans records fulfilled: 1,603,870 (2024)
Number of museum visitors: 2,122,359 (2024)
Number of Education and Public Program attendees (DC): 21,770 (2024)
Number of Education and Public Program attendees (Presidential Libraries, New York, Kansas City): 623,344 (2024)
Federal Records Centers
26 million cubic feet of agency records, including:
- More than 1 million cubic feet of “accessioned-in-place” records stored for NARA
- More than 334,000 cubic feet of classified records
- More than 57,000 cubic feet of courtesy storage for the U.S. House and Senate
2023 volume of work
- 1 million cubic feet of new materials shelved
- More than 1.5 million cubic feet disposed
- More than 1.5 million Official Military Personnel File reference requests (St. Louis)
- More than 9.4 million IRS requests completed
- More than 725,000 general reference requests completed
- More than 52,000 cubic feet of permanent records transferred into NARA’s archival holdings
Budget: (2022 enacted) $695 million total: $477 million in appropriated**, plus $218 million in non-appropriated funds
(2023 request) $662 million total: $450 million in appropriated, plus $212 million in non-appropriated funds
** Includes one-time appropriations and community-directed spending (earmarks)
Number of NARA external websites: 37. This includes Archives.gov, the National Archives Catalog, History Hub, Presidential Library websites, archived WhiteHouse.gov websites from prior administrations, and other various public websites.