← All vendorsCity spendingMunicipal Courts Department
The city's published checkbook records $170,295,734 paid out under this department across 91,804 payment lines and 127 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$22,039,031
FY2019$21,269,126
FY2020$19,017,697
FY2021$14,147,713
FY2022$17,416,448
FY2023$17,575,952
FY2024$17,868,252
FY2025$17,247,205
FY2026$18,274,471
FY2027$5,439,839
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 127)
$112,360,100
$10,071,208
$8,333,346
$5,871,668
$5,261,484
$4,145,412
$3,275,450
$2,295,756
$2,281,590
$2,193,080
$1,649,949
$1,489,110
$1,167,103
$1,014,470
$889,320
$763,538
$652,761
$503,671
$486,308
$441,816
$404,919
$317,271
$266,620
$244,134
$241,560
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 .