← All vendorsCity spendingHouston Health Department
The city's published checkbook records $730,093,143 paid out under this department across 120,542 payment lines and 1,679 named vendors, FY2018–FY2027.
Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2027 means July 2026 through June 2027.
By fiscal year
FY2018$50,834,767
FY2019$51,387,322
FY2020$48,335,220
FY2021$169,529,712
FY2022$128,285,901
FY2023$89,620,649
FY2024$66,513,936
FY2025$55,927,068
FY2026$52,579,627
FY2027$17,078,941
The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.
Largest vendors (25 of 1,679)
$70,376,648
$31,763,547
$27,759,206
$26,207,493
$17,913,993
$17,630,656
$17,451,610
$13,467,475
$12,849,653
$12,710,402
$12,131,044
$11,730,785
$10,846,654
$10,573,330
$10,256,659
$8,862,801
$8,711,772
$7,461,942
$6,858,435
$6,318,686
$6,155,456
$6,049,763
$5,974,840
$5,681,866
$5,673,309
What this does and doesn't show
- These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
- Some payments name no company: the city files them under "GENERAL ONE-TIME VENDOR" or a bare asterisk — $683,428,414 across FY2018–FY2027, about 1.2% of all payments. Much of that is properly private, like legal settlements and housing assistance paid to individuals. Those payments aren't listed as vendors here because there's no vendor to list.
- A department total here is what moved through that department's books, not its budget. Funds it administers on someone else's behalf are included.
From the City of Houston's .