🗺 Every page — the whole flow
The votes
Open questionsElections — when, where, howVoter turnoutPriorities boardWhat came of itGet involved
The budget
▶ Take the 2-minute tourThe money trailYour tax bill, explainedGrants — money we could go getWho gets paidWhat the auditors reportedThe receipt — arithmetic checkedThe documentsHow every number is sourcedQuestions people ask — answered from the dataThe plain-words tour
Public needs
Our waterJails & prisons — from holding to buildingWho’s watching — cameras, plate readers, the rulesWho to call — county and state officesFind help
Dead ends & open questions
The docketThe calendarHow complete is this county?
Research for a better county
Receipts by railsFood sovereigntyGrow-opsThe food flywheelThe two potsFeeding the countyThe growing frontierThe grower’s almanacThe $400K blueprintThe research shelfThe precedents
The wider network
All countiesKindred workWhere we sit in the field
How to trust this
Where we standWhat we will never doHow this is securedThe traffic logOur storyReport a problem
Loving County, Texas · Loving County FY2025 Budget (tax levy)

Loving County — the money trail

$84,002,309
Loving County has 64 residents — the fewest of any county in the United States — and sits on top of the Permian Basin oil field. Its 2024 taxable value is $18,233,228,957, about 82% of it oil-and-gas mineral value: roughly $284,894,202 of taxable property per resident, almost certainly the highest of any US county. This tree is the property tax the county levies across its three tax-supported funds at a total rate of $0.46071 per $100. The county carries no debt and holds large reserves. Line-item appropriations live in the county’s adopted budget, which is a scanned PDF pending text extraction (see the docket); the levy figures here are each fund’s rate applied to the certified taxable value. 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.
Cross-foots ✓ 7/7
The real money is in your city or town. With no county government here, the budgets that shape daily life — schools, police, roads, trash — are municipal. Browse every city and town →, and walk the ones we've ingested line by line.
Now you've seen it — say what matters. You don't write the budget; the people you elected do. But this is the record they answer to. Tell them what to lean into, or what to take a fresh look at, and why. Set the priorities.
✓ Sourced○ Cited◐ Partial⚠ Ambiguous✖ Dead end
✓ Sourced = cited to a document and the math re-adds to the dollar. ○ Cited = cited to a document, but the math isn't independently double-checked yet. Hover any mark for what it means.

Where it goes — $84,002,309 appropriated

▶General Fund (property-tax levy)$55,179,22166%✓ Sourced
What the General-Fund tax rate ($0.30263/$100) raises on the county’s $18.2 billion taxable value.
▶Road & Bridge (property-tax levy)$17,009,77920%✓ Sourced
What the Road & Bridge rate ($0.09329/$100) raises — roads across a county that is almost all oil field.
▶Special Road & Bridge (property-tax levy)$11,813,30914%✓ Sourced
What the Special Road & Bridge rate ($0.06479/$100) raises.