Texas counties budget fund by fund, not as one grand total. This shows the tax-supported budget — the General Fund, the Road & Bridge Fund, and Debt Service — adopted by the Commissioners Court in September 2025 for the year beginning October 1, 2025. It is paid for mostly by property tax: the adopted rate is $0.375845 per $100 of value (maintenance & operations $0.333824 + debt $0.042021), the voter-approval maximum, levied on the county’s 2025 total taxable value of $326,206,918,474. Counting every fund (internal-service and grant/capital funds, and net of inter-fund transfers), the county’s all-funds budget is about $2.16 billion; those other funds are left out of the total here because they largely recirculate money already counted. Every figure traces to the county’s adopted budget and its Recapitulation Financial Statement. Click any number to see exactly where it comes from. Where the trail goes dark, it becomes a numbered issue in the docket. New here? Read our story or take the plain-words tour.

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Where it goes — $1,760,175,394 appropriated

▶General Fund0001$1,559,097,51689%✓ Sourced

The county’s main operating fund, paid mostly by property tax. The biggest offices inside it: the Sheriff (patrol + the jail) $252.9M, Transportation & Natural Resources $91.4M, Technology & Operations $83.0M, Health & Human Services $71.8M, Juvenile Probation $54.7M, the District Attorney $36.6M, and EMS $29.0M. The tree below groups spending by function, as the county’s own financial statement does; note the Sheriff’s budget spans both Corrections and Public Safety, so a single “policing” figure would overstate it.

▶General Government$269,549,481 ✓ Sourced

Countywide administration, elections, records, tax collection, and the commissioners/judge offices.

▶Justice System$255,236,262 ✓ Sourced

The courts, District and County Attorneys, District and County Clerks, and related legal services.

▶Corrections & Rehabilitation$199,188,676 ✓ Sourced

The county jail (the Travis County Correctional Complex) and rehabilitation programs. Run by the Sheriff.

▶Public Safety$139,025,411 ✓ Sourced

Law-enforcement patrol, the constables, and emergency response. (The Sheriff’s office spans this and Corrections.)

▶Health & Human Services$104,534,596 ✓ Sourced

County health, mental-health, and social services.

▶Infrastructure & Environmental$44,075,491 ✓ Sourced

Transportation and natural resources, facilities, and environmental work in the unincorporated county.

▶Community & Economic Development$37,903,884 ✓ Sourced

Community services, veterans, and economic development.

▶Reserves (unallocated, allocated & general-purpose)$479,274,32531% of fund◐ Partial

Travis County carries large General-Fund reserves — unallocated ($157.6M), allocated ($58.5M), other general-purpose ($167.0M), and special-purpose ($96.2M). Reserves are budgeted but held, not spent, unless the Commissioners Court appropriates them.

▶Debt service & interest (within the General Fund)$3,310,632 ✓ Sourced

Interest costs carried inside the General Fund.

▶Transfers out$26,998,758 ✓ Sourced

Money moved from the General Fund to other funds.

▶Road & Bridge Fund0145$31,644,6272%✓ Sourced

County roads and bridges in the unincorporated areas, funded by a share of property tax and road revenues.

▶Debt Service Fund3001$169,433,25110%✓ Sourced

This year’s principal and interest on the county’s tax-supported debt (the I&S property-tax rate funds it). Total outstanding debt obligations were about $1.17 billion as of the FY2026 budget.