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• The populations of Houston and of MUDs in the area surrounding Houston is
similar. An estimated 2.7 million people lived in Houston Area MUDs in 2015.
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An estimated 2.3 million people lived in Houston on July 1, 2015.
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• An estimate of statewide MUD bonds outstanding is approximately $11.5
billion.
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• Thus, MUD bonds outstanding of $11.5 billion are only about 5.2% of the total.
• MUDs are only a small piece of local government debt in Texas.
4 See Official Statement, $230,000,000 City of Houston, Texas Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes, Series 2016,
Table 18 (page 14) (http://emma.msrb.org/ES795637-ES625468-ES1021023.pdf).
5 Municipal Information Services, Dr. Ron Welch.
6 United States Census Bureau, “QuickFacts”.
7 Estimate by Dr. Ron Welch, Municipal Information Services. Critics will often inflate this figure by including the
debt associated with non-MUD type entities.
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