KATY, TX: $18.0M on 55,178 FEC receipts

55,178 lines carrying $17,991,372

The headline pair is $17,991,372 and 55,178 lines. The implied average is about $326. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the KATY book. Filers in Harris and Fort Bend counties typed KATY with state TX.

Katy is a west-Houston suburban string as typed, not a merge with Houston. Sugar Land and Fulshear are neighboring keys. Filers who typed HOUSTON land on another hub. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string. Read $17,991,372 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of KATY gave. The 55,178 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints KATY together with Houston, Sugar Land, and Fulshear, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,991,372 on 55,178 KATY, TX rows, mean near $326. Keep the stored spelling KATY in the citation.

Why KATY on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Katy give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city KATY, TX total $17,991,372 across 55,178 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Not on this extract. KATY, TX is the stored suburban string. Houston is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,991,372. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $326 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Outside the KATY itemized book

$17,991,372 is not spending by KATY candidates. A candidate who lives in KATY can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged KATY, TX can go to a committee anywhere. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside both packet facts.

Postal confusion with Houston, Sugar Land, and Fulshear is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $17,991,372 counts rows that stored KATY, TX. 55,178 lines. About $326 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. TX state-office receipts are omitted.

KATY versus Houston on the FEC tape

KATY is a west-Houston suburban mid-volume book. 55,178 lines produce $17,991,372, a mean near $326. That line count is not a unique-donor count. Comparing this mean to Houston is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts.

A KATY total of $17,991,372 does not absorb Houston, Sugar Land, and Fulshear. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State TX stays on the citation so KATY, TX is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Mixing in TX state-campaign data breaks the comparison.

City total versus postal codes in TX

55,178 city-field lines can spread across many ZIPs or cluster in a few. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the ZIP directory and the live KATY hub rather than guessing the split. After an amendment wave, recheck both the city hub and any ZIP you compared. Snapshots drift independently.

Because this packet carries only city, state, dollar total, and contribution count, every other story about KATY politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field: $17,991,372 and 55,178.

Source tables for $17,991,372

A mean of about $326 is division of $17,991,372 by 55,178. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of KATY. Means move with a few large lines. Internal links on this page go only to the KATY city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory.

KATY’s $17,991,372 across 55,178 contributions is a Harris and Fort Bend counties city field, mean near $326. Houston is a neighboring string, not a subset. Harris and Fort Bend counties is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Cite $17,991,372 with 55,178 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city KATY, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city KATY, TX total $17,991,372 across 55,178 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in Katy. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $326 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Katy rolled into Houston on FEC reports?

Not on this extract. KATY, TX is the stored suburban string. Houston is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 55,178 itemized contributions for KATY, TX against $17,991,372. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 55,178 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Katy total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed KATY with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Katy can be part of $17,991,372 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 55,178-line count follows the same rule.

Are Katy numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,991,372 and 55,178 lines for KATY, TX. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from TX are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.