SUGAR LAND, TX: $23.1M on 82,997 FEC receipts

Sugar Land is not Houston on the FEC city key

The headline pair is $23,132,925 and 82,997 lines. The implied average is about $279. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Sugar Land book.

Fort Bend County’s Sugar Land string is separate from Houston, Missouri City, and Stafford on the FEC city key. Filers typed SUGAR LAND in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state TX. 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.

If a newsroom map paints Sugar Land together with Houston as one metro total, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $23,132,925 on 82,997 SUGAR LAND, TX rows, mean near $279.

Why SUGAR LAND on the receipt is not a census of Sugar Land

Searchers often want “how much did people in Sugar Land give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city SUGAR LAND, TX total $23,132,925 across 82,997 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $23,132,925. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the Sugar Land itemized book

$23,132,925 is not spending by Sugar Land candidates. A candidate who lives in Sugar Land can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged SUGAR LAND, TX can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $279 does not describe a median resident of Sugar Land. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Houston, Missouri City, or Stafford is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $23,132,925 counts rows that stored SUGAR LAND, TX. 82,997 lines. About $279 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs. Keep the two-word spelling SUGAR LAND.

Sugar Land’s mid-volume Fort Bend book

Sugar Land sits on a mid-volume book: 82,997 lines produce $23,132,925, a mean near $279. That line count is not a unique-donor count.

Comparing Sugar Land’s mean to Houston is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in Texas state data breaks the comparison.

A Sugar Land total of $23,132,925 does not absorb Houston, Missouri City, or Stafford. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State TX stays on the citation so SUGAR LAND, TX is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in TX

82,997 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 Sugar Land 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 Sugar Land 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.

Source tables for $23,132,925

A mean of about $279 is division of $23,132,925 by 82,997. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of Sugar Land.

Internal links on this page go only to the Sugar Land city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

Sugar Land’s $23,132,925 across 82,997 contributions is a Fort Bend County city field, mean near $279. Houston and Missouri City are neighboring strings, not subsets. Fort Bend County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Texas state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $23,132,925 with 82,997 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing Sugar Land should keep Houston and Fort Bend County off the sentence unless they add those hubs on purpose. The live Sugar Land table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $23,132,925 or 82,997 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $279 as division only. Texas state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Sugar Land code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Keep the two-word spelling SUGAR LAND. Missouri City and Stafford remain other strings. The 82,997-line count still is not a headcount of Sugar Land people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Sugar Land, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city SUGAR LAND, TX total $23,132,925 across 82,997 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 Houston merge. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is Sugar Land folded into Houston’s FEC city total?

No. LobbyVault counts 82,997 itemized contributions for SUGAR LAND, TX against $23,132,925. Houston is a different city string. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 82,997 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Sugar Land total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed SUGAR LAND with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Sugar Land can be part of $23,132,925 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 82,997-line count follows the same rule.

Are Sugar Land numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $23,132,925 and 82,997 lines for SUGAR LAND, 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. The mean of about $279 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.