HARRIS COUNTY WCID 161

Type: Water Control and Improvement District
Status: Active
County: Harris County
City: Houston
Officer of record: Joan Traylor — President
Phone: (713)860-6400
TCEQ district number: 3832500
Location on record: map point ↗ (29.7308, -95.4289)

Property tax rate — 2025

$0.68 per $100 of taxable value — $0.14 maintenance & operations + $0.54 debt service (I&S)

Taxable value $558,660,500; calculated levy $3,798,891.

Source: Texas Comptroller, Special District Rates and Levies 2025 (Tax Code §5.091) — file version "Working". Rates are per $100 of taxable value; confirm current figures with the district before relying on them for a closing.

Bond debt outstanding — FY2025

$42,165,000 tax-supported (no revenue-supported debt) — principal outstanding as reported by the Bond Review Board.

About $47,969 of that debt per parcel inside this district.

FY2025 tax-supported principal divided by the 879 parcels whose location falls inside the district's TCEQ boundary. Two things this is not: it isn't a bill — district bonds are repaid over decades out of the tax rate above, not owed by any owner directly; and it isn't per household — commercial tracts, vacant lots and reserves are parcels too, so a district still filling in reads higher than it will once the homes are built.

9-year history, total principal outstanding:

Peak: $44,940,000 in FY2023.

Source: Texas Bond Review Board data center. Texas's fiscal year ends August 31. The I&S portion of a district's tax rate exists to service debt like this.

What this district is

A water district is a unit of local government under the Texas Water Code — not an HOA. Many district types levy property taxes or charge for water and sewer service; the district itself is the authority on its current rates. The officer of record above is the registry's contact for it.

The HOA Book reports the state's own files here: TCEQ's registry, the Comptroller's special-district tax rates, and the Bond Review Board's debt data — the way our Colorado district pages report levies. Certified filings, never estimates; where a file doesn't cover this district, the page says so instead of guessing.

Watch this district. Rates and debt are re-reported every year. Leave an email and we'll send one plain message — only when this district's tax rate or bond debt changes in the state's files, with the old number and the new one. No newsletter, nothing else.

Source: TCEQ Water Districts registry via data.texas.gov, pulled 2026-08-08. Wrong or missing? Tell us.