The Woodlands, TX: $25.4M on 50,792 FEC receipts

Keep “The Woodlands” as the FEC city string

The headline pair is $25,385,322 and 50,792 lines. The implied average is about $500. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of The Woodlands book.

Montgomery County’s The Woodlands string is separate from Houston, Spring, and Conroe on the FEC city key. Filers typed The Woodlands in the city field. A all-caps WOODLANDS row, if it exists, would be a different key. LobbyVault summed rows with this 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 The Woodlands together with Houston and Spring, the FEC file still splits them. Conroe too. This extract’s only city total is $25,385,322 on 50,792 The Woodlands, TX rows, mean near $500.

Why The Woodlands on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in The Woodlands give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city The Woodlands, TX total $25,385,322 across 50,792 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $25,385,322. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. Census-designated-place status does not change the FEC city field.

Outside The Woodlands itemized book

$25,385,322 is not spending by The Woodlands candidates. A candidate who lives in The Woodlands can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged The Woodlands, TX can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $500 does not describe a median resident of The Woodlands. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Houston, Spring, or Conroe is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $25,385,322 counts rows that stored The Woodlands, TX. 50,792 lines. About $500 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

The Woodlands’s fewer-row Houston-north book

The Woodlands posts $25,385,322 on 50,792 lines, a mean near $500. That is fewer rows than several volume books with similar dollar totals. Fewer rows is not a unique-donor count.

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

A The Woodlands total of $25,385,322 does not absorb Houston or Spring. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State TX stays on the citation so The Woodlands, TX is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere.

City total versus postal codes in TX

50,792 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 The Woodlands 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 The Woodlands 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 $25,385,322

A mean of about $500 is division of $25,385,322 by 50,792. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of The Woodlands.

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

The Woodlands’s $25,385,322 across 50,792 contributions is a Montgomery County city field, mean near $500. Houston, Spring, and Conroe are neighboring strings, not subsets. Keep the title-case spelling. Repeat gifts add rows. Texas state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $25,385,322 with 50,792 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing The Woodlands should keep Montgomery County and Houston off the sentence unless they add those hubs on purpose. The live The Woodlands table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $25,385,322 or 50,792 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $500 as division only. Texas state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a Woodlands code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Keep the title-case spelling The Woodlands. Spring and Conroe remain other strings. The 50,792-line count still is not a headcount of The Woodlands people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city The Woodlands, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city The Woodlands, TX total $25,385,322 across 50,792 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 The Woodlands. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Does spelling matter for The Woodlands on FEC reports?

Yes. This extract is the title-case string The Woodlands with state TX: 50,792 lines and $25,385,322. A different capitalization or WOODLANDS without The would be a different city key if FEC stored it that way. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 50,792 should not be quoted as a population.

Does The Woodlands total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed The Woodlands with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list The Woodlands can be part of $25,385,322 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 50,792-line count follows the same rule.

Are The Woodlands numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $25,385,322 and 50,792 lines for The Woodlands, 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 $500 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.