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Harris County

COUNTY
~4.7M residents · 1 county judge · 4 commissioners
★★★★★93 / 100source audit pending
Operating within capacity
Reserves at 40% of operations
FY25 Budget
$4.98B
No prior period available
Tax Rate
$0.3810 / $100
Per $100
Debt / Resident
$1,070
Source
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Public Safety Briefing

Public Safety Briefing

Courts, jail, police, fire, EMS

Courts

Unverified
  • • Court metrics coverage: OCA/related feeds in progress
  • • Case-level docket feeds: jurisdiction-specific and partial

Trend summary: aggregate court throughput data will surface where county-level mapping is available.

Source
Courts feed is not yet standardized for this jurisdiction.

Jail

Unverified
  • • Current population: pending
  • • Rated capacity: pending
  • • Capacity utilization: pending

Trend summary: jail metrics are not mapped for this entity yet.

TCJS / county-linked jail metrics
Jail metrics are not yet available for this entity.

Police, Fire, EMS

Public Elsewhere
  • • Incident/arrest/CAD feeds: not yet uniformly ingested
  • • Fire/EMS response feeds: source-dependent and not standardized

Trend summary: public safety operations will expand as city-by-city feeds are normalized.

City open data portals and public safety systems
Open Emergency Services Map

Recent Meetings

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Harris County Commissioners Court — 12/22/2026Upcoming
harris_county · 12/22/2026
General local governance item
Harris County Commissioners Court — 12/08/2026Upcoming
harris_county · 12/8/2026
General local governance item
Harris County Commissioners Court — 11/24/2026Upcoming
harris_county · 11/24/2026
General local governance item
Harris County Commissioners Court — 11/10/2026Upcoming
harris_county · 11/10/2026
General local governance item
Harris County Commissioners Court — 10/27/2026Upcoming
harris_county · 10/27/2026
General local governance item

Latest Updates

Source match needs audit before relying on linked fiscal document; date under audit
Open data refresh for county records