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Texas's 36th district

Texas's 36th district has 788,941 residents on 5,945 mi² of land. It is represented by Brian Babin (R-TX-36). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $1.8B in FY2026.

Residents
788,941
Land area
5,945 mi²
Counties
8
Representative
Brian Babin
Map of Texas's 36th district within Texas

Members for this district

Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.

Senators

The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.

Counties

Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).

  1. Harris County56% of the district · 9.1% of the county
  2. Liberty County13% of the district · 100% of the county
  3. Jefferson County8.9% of the district · 28% of the county
  4. Hardin County7.3% of the district · 100% of the county
  5. Chambers County6.5% of the district · 99.6% of the county
  6. Jasper County4.1% of the district · 100% of the county
  7. Tyler County2.6% of the district · 100% of the county
  8. Newton County1.5% of the district · 100% of the county

Federal contracts

Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.

Obligations · FY2026
$1.8B
Per resident
$2,242
Rank in Texas
12 of 38
Contract actions
3,858
New awards: 2,241

By fiscal year

  1. 1.1BFY2017
  2. 1.4BFY2018
  3. 1.3BFY2019
  4. 1.1BFY2020
  5. 1.4BFY2021
  6. 1.5BFY2022
  7. 1.5BFY2023
  8. 1.8BFY2024
  9. 1.5BFY2025
  10. 1.8BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Defense
  2. Department of Defense
  3. Department of Defense
  4. Department of Transportation
  5. Department of Agriculture
  6. Department of Homeland Security
  7. Department of the Interior

Top recipients

  1. 1 award
  2. 5 awards
  3. AXIOM SPACE INC$212.8M12%
    6 awards
  4. 8 awards
  5. 8 awards
  6. 3 awards
  7. 2 awards
  8. 4 awards
  9. 49 awards
  10. LEIDOS, INC.$33.8M1.9%
    2 awards

Other boundaries

District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.