← All vendorsCity spendingHouston Health Department
The city's published checkbook records $713,014,202 paid out under this department across 117,532 payment lines and 1,651 named vendors, FY2018–FY2026.
Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.
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
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 1,651)
$70,376,648
$31,763,547
$26,448,769
$26,207,493
$17,913,993
$17,451,610
$16,889,090
$13,467,475
$12,849,653
$12,380,249
$11,868,825
$11,616,777
$10,591,487
$10,028,568
$9,887,388
$8,711,772
$8,650,985
$6,737,207
$6,218,543
$6,155,456
$6,049,763
$5,812,938
$5,673,309
$5,652,096
$5,300,900
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 — $617,266,200 across FY2018–FY2026, 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 .