Extracted from Houston's own budget document. Every figure below adds up to the total the city printed in that document; nothing is estimated. A person still checks these numbers against the city's published pages before OpenGovs calls them verified data.
Off the map: General Debt Service ($537.74M), General Government ($288.94M), General Services ($230.94M) — spending the document does not tie to a building.
- 3,230 vague line items
Items labeled "miscellaneous", "other", "general administration" or "contingency" sum to 29.5% of the FY2027 budget. Classic padding locations — worth an itemized breakdown.
- Houston Public Works concentration
A single department holds 39.5% of the FY2027 budget. Concentration is not itself waste, but it deserves outcome-per-dollar scrutiny.
| # | Department | Amount | Share | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Houston Public Works | $3.65B | 39.5% | +12.5% |
| 02 | Police Department | $1.25B | 13.6% | +7.5% |
| 03 | Houston Airport System | $801.04M | 8.7% | +5.7% |
| 04 | Fire Department | $718.97M | 7.8% | -1.8% |
| 05 | Human Resources | $558.2M | 6% | +3.4% |
| 06 | General Debt Service | $537.74M | 5.8% | +5.9% |
| 07 | General Government | $288.94M | 3.1% | -0.4% |
| 08 | General Services | $230.94M | 2.5% | +2% |
| 09 | Houston Information Technology Services | $161.36M | 1.7% | +10.8% |
| 10 | Convention & Entertainment | $141.08M | 1.5% | +19.1% |
| 11 | Solid Waste Management | $137.03M | 1.5% | +23.7% |
| 12 | Administration and Regulatory Affairs | $121.58M | 1.3% | +7.7% |
| 13 | Fleet Management Department | $113.67M | 1.2% | +2.8% |
| 14 | Parks and Recreation | $106.48M | 1.2% | -0.4% |
| 15 | Houston Health Department | $106.22M | 1.1% | +16% |
| 16 | Finance Department | $52.19M | 0.6% | +13.4% |
| 17 | Library | $50.84M | 0.5% | 0% |
| 18 | Legal | $48.48M | 0.5% | +3.5% |
| 19 | Houston Emergency Center | $41.49M | 0.4% | +10.6% |
| 20 | Mayor's Office | $36.15M | 0.4% | -3.2% |
| 21 | Municipal Courts Department | $29.67M | 0.3% | +7.3% |
| 22 | Planning & Development | $17.25M | 0.2% | +36.4% |
| 23 | City Council | $16.97M | 0.2% | -24.8% |
| 24 | City Controller | $11.59M | 0.1% | +5.9% |
| 25 | Department of Neighborhoods | $7.37M | 0.1% | +14.8% |
| 26 | Office of Business Opportunity | $6.3M | 0.1% | +14.1% |
| 27 | Housing & Community Development | $1.29M | 0% | -30.9% |
| 28 | City Secretary | $822.14K | 0% | +11.2% |
- 01$601.3MHPW - Financial Management Services — System Debt Service TransfersHouston Public Works · Debt Service and Other Uses
- 02$555.77MHPW - Financial Management Services — Trans to CUS OperatingHouston Public Works · Debt Service and Other Uses
- 03$524.1MHPW - Financial Management Services — Transfers to Capital ProjectsHouston Public Works · Debt Service and Other Uses
- 04$322.71MGeneral Debt Service Group — Trans to PIB Bonds Debt ServiceGeneral Debt Service · Debt Service and Other Uses
- 05$316.43MHR - Benefits Finance & Reporting — Cigna - Active Medical Claims ExpenseHuman Resources · Other Services and Charges
- 06$304.93MEmergency Response — Salary Base Pay - ClassifiedFire Department · Personnel Services
- 07$298.74MField Operations — Salary Base Pay - ClassifiedPolice Department · Personnel Services
- 08$215.03MGeneral Debt Service Group — Captured Revenue Transfer to DDSRFGeneral Debt Service · Debt Service and Other Uses
- Fetched
Downloaded from the city's official website and fingerprinted with SHA-256
- Extracted
Read the FY2027 appropriation table out of the document
- Reconciled
Our department figures add up to $9.25B — the same total the city printed. Extraction is discarded if they disagree.
- Human reviewpending
Pending: a person checks these totals against the city's published pages before OpenGovs calls them verified
Verified Check
Houston can publish a live vendor register, itemized cards, and named payroll. While those files are current, the city carries a public Verified Check — the most transparent mark on the map. The badge comes off if a month is missed.
Open the monthly feed →Budget Simulator
We already hold Houston's adopted book. Upload proposed budgets A, B, and C, simulate vs estimated, then score the scenarios when actuals land so the next round is tighter.
Simulate A, B, C →- Open document →XLSXhouston-budget-2026.xlsx2.6 MB · fetched Sep 13, 2026sha-256 cecb1a7ab58dcef2ab468ecb11d5ae6ba06b8e1b2ac5e05182b7b58769b8d096
Retrieved directly from www.houstontx.gov with the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded in the city's manifest.json
Verified provenance means we can prove where the file came from and that it has not been altered — it is not a claim that a person has checked the numbers yet.