Copper Lakes Realtor — Your Local Guide to Copper Lakes, Houston TX 77095
I’m Kevan Pewitt, a Copper Lakes Realtor and the broker behind Houston Prime Realty. Copper Lakes is an established, master-planned lake community in far northwest Houston (unincorporated Harris County, ZIP 77095), tucked into the Copperfield/Bear Creek area along Barker Cypress Road between FM 529 and Tuckerton — 1,404 single-family homes built from 1994 into the early 2010s, now fully built out and trading entirely as resale, with several man-made lakes at its center and Harris County’s 188-acre Goforth Park right next door. This is your guide to the market, the sections, schools, the two-MUD tax picture, and the flood facts.
Copper Lakes at a glance
| Location | Far NW Houston / unincorporated Harris County (ZIP 77095) — along Barker Cypress Road between FM 529 and Tuckerton, just off Highway 6 and south of US-290, about 22–25 miles NW of Downtown |
| Community type | Master-planned lake community; established 1994, built out by the early 2010s; 1,404 single-family homes across numbered plat sections |
| Median price | Median market value around $432,000 (HAR, 2025) at about $142/sq ft; most homes appraise in the low-to-mid $400,000s |
| Price range | Roughly $333,000 to $588,000 for most homes (HAR, 2025), with larger lakefront and estate homes above that |
| Property tax | Roughly 2.21% combined in the Harris County MUD 173 sections and about 2.48% in the MUD 156 sections — the neighborhood spans two MUDs, so the rate varies by address (2024–2025 rates) |
| HOA dues | Annual assessment through the Copper Lakes Community Association (managed by Inframark); the current dollar amount isn’t published — confirm with Inframark or the resale certificate |
| Schools | Cypress-Fairbanks ISD — Copeland Elementary, Aragon Middle, and Langham Creek High; verify by address |
| New construction | No — fully built out; the market is entirely resale |
| Flood | Addicks Reservoir watershed, but no primary source documents Copper Lakes itself flooding in Harvey or recent storms; confirm the FEMA designation per lot |
| Best for | Buyers who want an established lake-and-trail community near Copperfield with nearby Cy-Fair schools and a big county park next door — weighing a car-dependent commute, a tax rate that varies by MUD section, and 15-to-30-year-old homes against brand-new construction |
Figures are point-in-time and vary by section and address — verify before relying. Not legal or tax advice.
Where Copper Lakes is
Copper Lakes sits in far northwest Houston, in unincorporated Harris County with a Houston 77095 mailing address — which means it’s inside the City of Houston’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) but not the city limits, so there’s no city property tax and services come from Harris County, a pair of municipal utility districts, and the HOA. Per the community’s own site, it’s bounded by Longenbaugh Drive, Barker Cypress Road, Queenston Boulevard, and Tuckerton Road, just off Highway 6 and south of US-290. It’s a distinct subdivision from its Copperfield-area neighbors — Copperfield, Copper Grove, and Copper Creek each have their own HOA and MUD setup — even though all of them fall inside the broader “Copperfield Area” MLS market, which is a common point of confusion.
For getting around, Highway 6, FM 529, West Road, and Barker Cypress feed you to US-290 and the Grand Parkway (SH 99) to the west and Beltway 8 to the east, giving you several routes toward the job centers. In typical traffic, the Energy Corridor runs about 20–30 minutes, Downtown about 30–45 minutes (roughly 22–25 miles), and the Galleria/Uptown and Texas Medical Center are longer cross-town hauls (the Med Center often 40–55 minutes). Bush Intercontinental (IAH) is about 25–30 miles northeast (roughly 35–45 minutes) and Hobby (HOU) is farther southeast, closer to an hour. This is a car-dependent location with no direct METRO bus service into the neighborhood — test-drive your actual commute at rush hour before you commit.
Copper Lakes sits along Barker Cypress Road between FM 529 and Tuckerton, off Highway 6 in far NW Houston (77095). © OpenStreetMap contributors.
The feel of the area
The lakes are what give Copper Lakes its name and its character — several man-made lakes sit at the center of the community, with walking and biking trails running along the greenbelt easements between them. Because build-out finished years ago, the trees have grown in and the amenities are long established rather than promised on a site plan. Residents share two community pools, a splash pad, a clubhouse, lighted tennis courts with a pickleball court, and multiple parks and playgrounds, all maintained by the HOA.
The biggest lifestyle bonus sits just outside the neighborhood: Harris County’s Deputy Darren Goforth Park on Horsepen Creek, a 188-acre county park with a 75-acre stocked lake, a 3.3-mile paved loop trail with exercise stations, and an enclosed roughly 7-acre dog park with separate large- and small-dog sides and lake access. The playground entrance is at 9118 Wheat Cross Drive and the dog-park entrance is at 9402 Barker Cypress Road — so a serious trail, fishing lake, and dog park are all a short walk or drive from most Copper Lakes homes.
One of the community’s lakes, with a fountain and a walking path along the bank — the lakes are the neighborhood’s signature feature.
Paved trails wind along the greenbelts and ponds that thread through Copper Lakes.
Copper Lakes homes for sale: the stock and the market
Copper Lakes is single-family detached, in the traditional one- and two-story brick styles of its era, built from about 1994 through the early 2010s (HAR puts the median build year at 2003). Homes run from roughly 1,725 square feet up to 5,200 or more, with a median around 3,183 square feet, on lots from about 0.14 to 0.32 acre (median lot near 9,078 square feet, per HAR). The estate and lakefront sections include larger custom homes. The one thing to know up front: the community is fully built out, so the inventory is entirely resale — buyers set on brand-new construction typically look to newer communities farther out along the Grand Parkway.
On the market itself, lean on HAR/MLS numbers rather than the national aggregators, which draw the neighborhood’s boundaries differently and disagree with each other. As of HAR’s 2025 data (accessed July 17, 2026), the median sold price was about $142.46 per square foot — essentially flat over three years (roughly $142.49 in both 2024 and 2023), down from a $149.22 peak in 2022 after a sharp 2020–2022 run-up. HAR pegs the median market value near $432,000 (median appraised value about $421,000), with most homes valued roughly $333,000 to $588,000. Turnover is thin, as you’d expect in a built-out community of about 1,400 homes: 49 MLS sales closed in 2025, 43 in 2024, and 38 in 2023. Figures are point-in-time — ask me for this week’s numbers in a specific section.
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One neighborhood, two tax bills — know your MUD
Copper Lakes is platted into numbered sections (MLS listings reference sections through Section 15), and while school zoning is the same neighborhood-wide, the property-tax rate is not — because the community is split between two municipal utility districts, and the MUD line is where the money is.
| Municipal utility district | MUD tax rate (per $100) | Combined tax rate | Roughly, on a $430,000 home |
| Harris County MUD 173 | ~0.3700% | ~2.21% | ~$9,500/year (no exemptions) |
| Harris County MUD 156 | ~0.6350% | ~2.48% | ~$10,700/year (no exemptions) |
That’s about a $1,100-a-year difference between two otherwise-similar homes, driven almost entirely by which MUD a lot sits in. The combined rate also includes Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (lowered to $1.0669 per $100 for 2025), Harris County entities, and Lone Star College. Homestead exemptions reduce these materially. Confirm which MUD serves a specific home — and its exact total rate — at HCAD.org before you rely on any number.
Schools
Copper Lakes is zoned to Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (Cy-Fair ISD) — one of the largest districts in Texas — which earned an overall “B” (85 out of 100) from the Texas Education Agency for 2025, its third consecutive “B” with no D- or F-rated campuses that year. The community’s three campuses are Copeland Elementary (TEA 2025: “B,” 87), Aragon Middle (TEA 2025: “A,” 90), and Langham Creek High (TEA 2025: “B,” 86). All three offer Gifted & Talented programming, Langham Creek offers Advanced Placement coursework, and Cy-Fair partners with Lone Star College for dual credit — figures and programs I report as sourced facts, not endorsements. Ratings and campus letter grades are published on txschools.gov.
School zoning is set by the exact property address, and Cy-Fair rezones periodically with boundaries that can run mid-neighborhood, so always confirm a specific home’s campuses at txschools.gov and with Cy-Fair ISD directly before you rely on them. See my Schools page for Cy-Fair campuses with ratings and maps.
Getting around & commute
Copper Lakes lives off Barker Cypress and Highway 6, with FM 529, West Road, US-290, the Grand Parkway (SH 99), and Beltway 8 all a short drive — so you have multiple routes toward the northwest and west-side job centers. In typical traffic: the Energy Corridor runs about 20–30 minutes; Downtown about 30–45 minutes (roughly 22–25 miles); and the Galleria/Uptown and Texas Medical Center are longer trips, often 40–55 minutes to the Medical Center. There’s no rail out here and no direct METRO bus service into the neighborhood — Park & Ride commuter service exists in the broader US-290 corridor, but this is a car-dependent area for most trips. Bush Intercontinental (IAH) is about 25–30 miles northeast (roughly 35–45 minutes); Hobby (HOU) is farther southeast, closer to an hour.
Flood risk — what to check before you buy
Copper Lakes drains to the Addicks Reservoir watershed, fed by area tributaries including Bear Creek, South Mayde Creek, Langham Creek, and Horsepen Creek (the creek that runs through the adjacent Goforth Park), and the neighborhood has its own detention lakes and MUD-maintained drainage. During Hurricane Harvey (August 2017), Addicks Reservoir peaked at a record 109.09 feet, and the severe reservoir-pool flooding was concentrated in subdivisions built inside or immediately behind the Addicks pool — Lakes on Eldridge, Bear Creek Village, Canyon Gate, and Concord Bridge among them. Those are all distinct communities from Copper Lakes.
Here’s the honest, careful version: I found no primary source — from Harris County Flood Control, FEMA, the Army Corps, or contemporaneous news — documenting Copper Lakes itself flooding during Harvey, the 2016 Tax Day flood, the 2015 Memorial Day flood, or Imelda, and the federal Addicks upstream-inundation subdivision lists don’t include it. That’s “no evidence of flooding found,” not a guarantee that any given lot never floods. Flood risk is strictly property-specific. Before you make an offer on any home here, pull its exact flood designation at the FEMA Flood Map Service Center and ask for the property’s flood history, review the seller’s disclosure, and consider an Elevation Certificate and a flood-insurance quote regardless of the mapped zone. I’ll help you check it lot by lot.
Things to do nearby
Inside Copper Lakes, life clusters around the water and the neighborhood amenities — the man-made lakes, the greenbelt trails, the two pools and splash pad, the lighted tennis and pickleball courts, and the parks and playgrounds. Right next door, Deputy Darren Goforth Park adds a 75-acre stocked fishing lake, a 3.3-mile paved loop trail, and a large fenced dog park. Beyond the community, the Highway 6 and US-290 corridors put everyday errands minutes away, with Kroger, Aldi, and Sprouts nearby, plus the Copperfield shopping centers and Studio Movie Grill Copperfield for dinner-and-a-movie. A little farther out you’ve got the Houston Premium Outlets up US-290 in Cypress, and two golf options close by — Houston National Golf Club and BlackHorse Golf Club. Lone Star College–CyFair is also just up the road for dual-credit and continuing education.
One of the community’s parks and playgrounds — part of the HOA-maintained amenities woven through Copper Lakes.
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Is Copper Lakes the Right Fit?
Its strengths are those of a mature lake community: an established amenity package (several lakes, greenbelt trails, two pools and a splash pad, tennis and pickleball, and parks), a big county park with a fishing lake and dog park right next door, nearby Cy-Fair ISD schools including an “A”-rated middle school, quick access to Highway 6, US-290, and the Grand Parkway, and grown-in trees you can’t fake in a new subdivision. The trade-offs are honest: the homes mostly date to 1994–2012, so many are 15 to 30 years old and may want roof, HVAC, or systems updates a brand-new home wouldn’t; the combined tax rate runs about 2.21% to 2.48% and the MUD 156 bill is meaningfully higher than MUD 173, so the section matters; there are annual HOA dues plus a resale certificate fee at closing; and the commute to central Houston runs 30–55 minutes with no rail, in a car-dependent location. Because the community is fully built out, buyers who specifically want new construction will need to look elsewhere. If Copper Lakes sounds like your kind of place — or you’re weighing it against Copperfield or another Copper-area community — that’s exactly the conversation I’m good at. Call or text 281-500-7077 or email kevan@houstonprimerealty.com. We’ll agree on how I represent you and how that’s paid up front, in writing.
Work With a Copper Lakes Realtor
Whether you’re buying or selling, having a Copper Lakes Realtor who knows the community — which sections fall in Harris County MUD 173 versus MUD 156 and what that does to the tax bill, how lakefront lots and home age read to the next buyer, and what the built-out resale market is actually doing month to month — saves you money and second-guessing. I’m Kevan Pewitt, broker-owner of Houston Prime Realty — a licensed Texas real estate broker since 1989 and a REALTOR® — and I’ll ground the pricing advice you get in what actually drives value and time on market here. Reach out and I’ll walk you through what’s on the market and what your home is worth.
Quick Answers
What ZIP code is Copper Lakes in?
Copper Lakes is in 77095, in far northwest Houston — unincorporated Harris County, inside the City of Houston’s ETJ (not the city limits), along Barker Cypress Road between FM 529 and Tuckerton.
What school district serves Copper Lakes?
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (Cy-Fair ISD) — Copeland Elementary, Aragon Middle, and Langham Creek High. The district earned a TEA “B” (85/100) for 2025, and Aragon Middle earned an “A.” Zoning is set by address, so verify the exact campuses at txschools.gov.
What’s the typical home price in Copper Lakes?
Per HAR’s 2025 data, the median market value is around $432,000 (about $142 per square foot), with most homes valued roughly $333,000 to $588,000. National aggregators report different figures because they use different neighborhood boundaries — HAR/MLS is the authoritative local source. Ask me for current numbers in a specific section.
What are the property taxes in Copper Lakes, and which MUD am I in?
Roughly 2.21% of value in the Harris County MUD 173 sections and about 2.48% in the MUD 156 sections (2024–2025 rates) — the community spans both districts, about a $1,100/year difference on a $430,000 home. The bill combines Cy-Fair ISD ($1.0669 per $100), Harris County entities, Lone Star College, and the MUD. Confirm the exact MUD and rate for the address at HCAD.org.
Did Copper Lakes flood during Harvey?
No primary source documents Copper Lakes itself flooding in Harvey (2017) or other recent storms; the hard-hit reservoir-pool subdivisions nearby (Lakes on Eldridge, Bear Creek Village, Canyon Gate, Concord Bridge) are distinct communities. That’s not a guarantee for any specific lot — confirm the exact address’s FEMA flood map designation and flood history before you rely on it.
What does the HOA cover, and what are the dues?
The Copper Lakes Community Association (managed by Inframark) maintains the lakes, two pools and splash pad, clubhouse, tennis and pickleball courts, parks, trails, and entry monuments, and contracts with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office for neighborhood patrols. Dues are billed as an annual assessment; the current amount isn’t published publicly, so confirm it — and any resale/transfer fee — with Inframark or from the resale certificate.
Is there still new construction in Copper Lakes?
No. Copper Lakes is fully built out (established 1994, finished in the early 2010s), so it’s entirely a resale market with no active builders.
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