What is the Munimetric score for City of Houston, TX?

The current Munimetric Infrastructure Stress Index (MISI) score for City of Houston, TX is 33.9 out of 100, placing this system in the watch stress band. MISI is a composite of five structural risk families. Higher values indicate more stress. The score is deterministic, source-backed, and updated as new data becomes available.

Does City of Houston, TX show signs of drinking-water infrastructure stress?

Munimetric monitors structural stress indicators for City of Houston, TX across operational conditions, capital needs, revenue stability, rate affordability, and governance quality. The current MISI score and active signals shown in this profile reflect the latest available evidence from EPA, ACS, FEMA NRI, and state financial disclosures.

Does Munimetric rate current tap-water conditions for City of Houston, TX?

No. Munimetric is not a water testing service and does not make current-condition determinations. This profile tracks structural conditions: compliance posture, financial pressure, infrastructure stress, and governance quality. For current water quality testing results, consult the system's Consumer Confidence Report or contact the local water utility.

Has City of Houston, TX had a boil water advisory?

Munimetric does not track real-time boil water advisories. For current advisory status, contact your local water utility or state drinking water program. This profile tracks structural risk indicators and compliance history that provide long-term context around system reliability.

Are lead pipes or corrosion risk a concern in City of Houston, TX?

Where EPA SDWA compliance data includes lead and copper rule monitoring, violations, or enforcement actions, that information feeds into the Operational Stress component of the MISI score. Munimetric does not fabricate lead pipe data where public records are silent.

Does Munimetric include PFAS monitoring context for City of Houston, TX?

Where stored public records include UCMR or contaminant-monitoring summaries, Munimetric displays PFAS monitoring context as public-record evidence. Missing PFAS summaries are treated as missing records, not as non-detections. This context does not change MISI by itself.

What source-water context is available for City of Houston, TX?

Munimetric displays stored source-water and supply context where public drinking-water identity records are available. Source-water context helps explain treatment and supply exposure, but missing source records remain explicit rather than inferred.

Why might water rates be increasing in City of Houston, TX?

Rate pressure can reflect capital investment needs, a declining customer base, revenue fragility, affordability constraints, or parent-government fiscal stress. The Rate Constraint and Revenue Fragility score families specifically measure these pressures where data is available from public financial disclosures.

What does the MISI score mean for City of Houston, TX?

The MISI score (33.9/100) is a composite measure of structural risk across five families: Operational Stress, Capex Pressure, Revenue Fragility, Rate Constraint, and Governance Risk. The headline remains a blended structural stress composite rather than a pure physical-condition index. The current methodology also downweights factors that are nearly universal or very rare in the frozen national reference population, so one common contextual factor does not dominate the headline by itself. Higher scores indicate more structural stress. It is deterministic and source-backed, not a credit rating.

Munimetric Water System Profile

City of Houston, TX

Name: City of Houston, TX Water System Stress Profile
Creator: Munimetric
License: https://munimetric.com/terms

Drinking Water Infrastructure Profile

Munimetric analysis of drinking water infrastructure in City of Houston, TX, Texas, including MISI stress score, active signals, and peer-relative monitoring context. This profile highlights what is happening and why it matters using water-system, fiscal, capital, and signal context.

City of Houston, TX has a MISI infrastructure stress score of 33.9/100 in the Watch band as of 2026-06-16. Public records show surface-water sourcing, PFAS monitoring context, lead and copper compliance context and approximately 2,970,543 residents served. Updated May 2026.

WatchScore date Jun 16, 2026Methodology v0.1.2

Headline score

33.9

97% confidence · cohort Community · 250k+ · Surface.

33.9Headline composite

WatchBand

97%Confidence

~3.0MPop. served

P53Peer percentile

12Active signals

Current headline composite

Component of current headline composite

Infrastructure Stress29.9 / 100

Physical, compliance, and capital-execution pressure reflected in the blended headline composite.

Socioeconomic Stress4.0 / 100

Affordability, demand-base, and parent-government fiscal pressure reflected in the blended headline composite.

Observability Stress0.0 / 100

Staleness, disclosure freshness, and reporting-visibility effects reflected in the blended headline composite.

33.9/100 headline compositeWatch97% confidencedrinking_water::community_water_system::250k_plus::surface_water~3.0M people served

Monitoring context stored

Water Quality & Supply Context

Public-record context for this system. Stored monitoring and compliance records only. Does not change MISI.

Public records

Records presentTXPWSID TX1010013.

Recent violations

16 records6 MRInterim and Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, Revised Total Coliform Rule +2

Enforcement records

56 recordsStored public enforcement rows.

PFAS monitoring records

115 detections33.90Stored PFAS monitoring records list 2,880 samples and 115 detections.

Lead/copper monitoring records

Records stored17 samplesStored lead/copper records list 0 open LCR violations and 0 action-level records.

Source / supply context

Surface waterIdentity2,970,543 served; Dec 31, 2025.

Not a real-time tap-water condition determination. Use official utility or state program records for current advisories.

Official records

Public drinking-water profileEPA ECHO / SDWIS: Federal public system profile and compliance summary.
Enforcement historyEPA ECHO: Federal compliance and enforcement detail for this drinking-water system.
State drinking-water programTexas Commission on Environmental Quality: State drinking-water program home page.

Source notes

Methodology/source notesDisplayed from stored public drinking-water records and official program references. This layer does not change MISI.
Contaminant monitoring recordsEPA UCMR: PFAS context uses stored contaminant-monitoring summaries where available; missing records are not treated as non-detections.
Methodology/source notesOfficial annual consumer-confidence report links are not currently stored in this profile layer.

Tier 1 profile guide

How to interpret City of Houston, TX

Plain-language summary

City of Houston, TX is part of the selected Tier 1 profile set. This page is designed to quickly explain what the MISI headline composite means here. In v0.1.2, the headline composite remains a blended structural stress measure rather than a pure physical-condition index. A frozen national reference and a 50 percent single-factor cap reduce the dominance of near-universal and very rare factors, while the component bars continue to separate infrastructure, socioeconomic, and observability readings.

Why this page stands out

Current MISI is 33.9 in the watch band as of Jun 16, 2026.
97% confidence and 12 tracked structural signals support interpretation quality.
Related market links are prioritized for same-state and same-risk-context comparisons.

What to do next

Read the executive interpretation first to understand why the market is in its current band.
Compare this profile with related systems to validate whether stress patterns are local or systemic.
Open Texas state context to see how this market fits the statewide posture.

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Executive context

What the Data Suggests

City of Houston, TX's public water system serves roughly 3.0 million residents, placing it among the larger community systems in this coverage set. At the latest reading, Munimetric flags the system as showing early but meaningful signs of structural stress.

The score is being driven mainly by Capex Pressure, which is running high in the model, with Operational Stress adding further pressure. In other words, Capex Pressure is doing most of the heavy lifting in the headline score.

6 active stress signals are attached to this system, including 3 at high severity. That signal mix points to a system where several warning indicators are firing at once, not just one extreme outlier.

Within Community · 250k+ · Surface, this system ranks around the 53rd percentile on measured stress, placing it near the middle of the peer group on measured stress.

Recent score history has been relatively steady, consistent with the system's overall profile.

This summary is based on structured, source-backed public data and is intended for research and monitoring only. It is not investment advice, a credit opinion, or municipal advisory guidance.

Analytical posture

Market Stress Analytics

Family Contribution

MISI family contributions for this market.

Peer Position

Where City of Houston sits within its peer cohort.

AvailableMissing

Score History

Latest

33.9

Trend

+27.9

Observations

Unified Explainability

Structural indicators

Stress diagnostics

Structural stress is currently driven by compliance-related escalation within recent monitoring activity.
Affordability pressure is present, with declining real income affecting rate capacity.
Liquidity conditions indicate moderate constraint.
Additional monitoring signals reflect ongoing administrative and reporting strain.
Some areas remain under active evaluation as coverage expands.

Signal timeline summary

No signal timeline history is stored for this profile.

Source observations

Completeness 0% · raw-file links remain policy-gated to authorized internal review workflows.

No source observations are stored on this profile.

Stress movement

Diagnostics

Diagnostics & Movement

Compact status for confidence, data coverage, disclosure freshness, and stored score movement. Detailed diagnostic history remains available below.

Confidence

97%

Confidence is mainly capped by document freshness.

Factor coverage

Complete

All tracked confidence factors are currently available.

Disclosure freshness

Not available

No attached disclosure document has a usable reference date.

Latest movement

flat 0.0

Compared with Jun 15, 2026.

Last material movement

-2.0

Recorded May 2, 2026.

History

59 observations stored

Latest stored observation Jun 16, 2026.

Show detailed diagnostic history

Expanded stress diagnostics

Open detailed contribution diagnostics

No detailed factor diagnostics are stored for this profile snapshot.

Confidence summary

Confidence is mainly capped by document freshness.

Gate high (option_b)

score_confidence: high
availability_score: high
mapping_confidence: high
freshness_score: high
provenance_completeness: unknown

Missing factor coverage

No factor gaps are recorded on the latest stored score.

Disclosure freshness diagnostics

0 attached local documents · 0 structured facts

No attached disclosure document has a usable reference date.

Latest reference Not available · stale after Not available