ZIP Code 77005

One hundred six thousand receipts, a $412 mean

Divide $43,843,397 by 106,538 and the mean line is about $412. That average is a ratio. It is not a typical gift and it is not a median. A six-figure itemization list can mix ordinary individual rows with committee rows on the same five digits. FEC Schedule A stores whatever ZIP the filer put on the receipt. LobbyVault sums those rows.

One hundred six thousand five hundred thirty-eight itemized lines is enough volume that no single restatement is guaranteed to dominate the mean, and still small enough that large committee receipts can pull $43,843,397. The table can support that scale check. It cannot support a story about who lives in 77005 or why they gave.

A mean near $412 on 106,538 lines is a mid-band ratio on a volume ZIP. It does not prove a typical gift. FEC.gov did not publish a median for 77005. Keep $43,843,397 and 106,538 together so a reader can redo the division.

How FEC addressing works on 77005

Individual contribution files include a ZIP field taken from the contributor record. Committees and joint fundraising committees often use a business ZIP. When those entities appear as contributors or as the address on a transferred receipt, their ZIP is 77005 if that is what was filed. Treating $43,843,397 as what residents donated overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works.

Unitemized gifts below the federal itemization threshold never enter this total. Texas state filings never enter it. Independent expenditures paid by a committee with a different ZIP never enter it. The $43,843,397 figure is a ZIP roll-up of itemized federal receipts, sourced from FEC.gov.

On a ZIP with 106,538 lines, the temptation is to treat the count as a population. It is not. Repeat itemizations, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows. $43,843,397 remains the matching dollar total. Cite the pair, not a headcount the packet never published.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 77005?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 77005 total $43,843,397 across 106,538 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $412 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 77005?

LobbyVault counts 106,538 itemized contributions for ZIP 77005. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $43,843,397.

Does $43.8 million mean people who live in 77005 gave that much?

The ZIP is the five-digit code on the FEC itemization. Joint fundraising and PAC addresses can appear in the same $43,843,397 total. 106,538 is a contribution-line count, not a unique-person count. Treating $43,843,397 as resident-only giving overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works. Open the ZIP 77005 hub for named receipts.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 77005 totals?

Figures come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $43,843,397 and 106,538 contributions for ZIP 77005. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are outside both numbers. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.