ZIP Code 77234

A $43 million ZIP on 727 itemizations

Divide $43,274,230 by 727 and the mean line is about $59,520. That average is a ratio, not a typical household gift. A handful of large committee transfers, joint-fundraising allocations, or PAC receipts posted to a Houston-area mail ZIP can move the mean without describing how people in the neighborhood give. FEC Schedule A stores whatever five-digit ZIP the filer put on the receipt. LobbyVault sums those rows. It does not recode them into a residential-only book.

Seven hundred twenty-seven itemized lines is a small count next to other high-dollar ZIPs that show six-figure contribution counts. The contrast is the story the table can support: 77234 is a concentration ZIP on the FEC tape, not a volume ZIP. Sorting the ZIP hub by dollars puts 77234 near $43 million peers. Sorting by contribution count does not. Both sorts are the same public file.

What the 77234 field is on an FEC receipt

Individual contribution files include a ZIP field taken from the contributor record. Committees, joint fundraising committees, and PACs often use a business or post-office ZIP. When those entities appear as contributors or as the address on a transferred receipt, their ZIP is 77234 if that is what was filed. Treating $43,274,230 as what residents of 77234 donated overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works.

Unitemized gifts below the federal itemization threshold never enter this total. State and local filings never enter it. Independent expenditures that mention a candidate but were paid by a committee with a different ZIP never enter it. The $43,274,230 figure is a ZIP roll-up of itemized federal receipts, sourced from FEC.gov.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 77234?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 77234 total $43,274,230 across 727 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live at that mail ZIP. Joint fundraising committees and PAC addresses can appear in $43,274,230 when that five-digit code was filed. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Does $43.3 million mean people who live in 77234 gave that much?

The ZIP is the five-digit code on the FEC itemization. Joint fundraising and PAC addresses can appear in the same $43,274,230 total. 727 is a contribution-line count, not a unique-person count. Treating $43,274,230 as resident-only giving in a small mail ZIP overstates a neighborhood and understates how FEC addressing works. Open the ZIP 77234 hub for named receipts.

Why are there only 727 contributions for such a large total?

727 itemized lines against $43,274,230 produces a concentration pattern with a mean near $59,520. That arithmetic is a scale check, not a typical household gift. Large committee and joint-fundraising receipts posted to a 77234 mail ZIP can dominate the mean. The packet has no median and no unique-donor count. Cite both $43,274,230 and 727.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 77234 totals?

Figures come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $43,274,230 and 727 contributions for ZIP 77234. 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. The live ZIP 77234 FEC page is the current table.