Is Hockley, TX a Good Place to Live? A Houston Real Estate Broker’s Honest Guide

Is Hockley, TX a good place to live? For most of the buyers I work with out here, yes. Hockley gives you a new home in a master-planned community for less than the same house costs in Cypress or Katy, in exchange for a longer commute down one freeway and a Waller ISD address, and about 1,500 homes sold in the 77447 ZIP over the past twelve months (HAR MLS, October 2026). The trade-offs deserve naming up front: the property-tax stack in the newest communities, the drive into Houston, and the fact that water, fire, and law enforcement come from districts and the county rather than a city. This is Hockley, Texas 77447 in northwest Harris County on U.S. 290, not Hockley County out near Lubbock, and I am Kevan Pewitt, a REALTOR® and the broker-owner of Houston Prime Realty. Here is what living in Hockley actually looks like in practice.

Figures as of October 2026. Market numbers are from HAR’s Hockley market-area report for October 2026, tax rates are the 2025 adopted rates from the Harris County Tax Office and the appraisal districts, school ratings are TEA’s 2026 ratings, and drive times are Google’s typical times for Tuesday, October 20, 2026. I refresh this guide when those sources update. The hub for the market, the community list, and utilities is my Hockley, TX real estate page.

Is Hockley, TX a good place to live? The one-minute version

Every line in this table is a checkable fact with its source, and the rest of the guide explains what each one means for a buyer.

Question	Answer	Source
What is Hockley?	An unincorporated area with the 77447 ZIP code, about 103 square miles, with no city government and no city tax line	Census TIGERweb, Oct 2026
Which county?	Three. About 67% of the ZIP’s area is Harris County, 28% Waller County, and 5% Montgomery County	Census TIGERweb county overlay
Population	About 25,200 residents and 9,100 housing units in ZIP 77447	ACS 2020–2024 five-year estimate
School district	Waller ISD for about 95% of the ZIP (TEA 2026: B, 80); the Montgomery County corner is Magnolia ISD (B, 87). Cy-Fair ISD and Tomball ISD cover essentially none of the ZIP	Census school-district layer; txschools.gov
Distance and commute	About 37 road miles to Downtown Houston: 45 minutes to 1 hour 25 minutes at 7:30 a.m., 35 to 45 minutes at 11 a.m. Energy Corridor 27 to 30 miles, 35 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes at 7:30 a.m.	Google Maps typical times, Oct 20, 2026, from US-290 at Hegar Rd
Home prices	Median sold price about $340,000, about 67 days on market, 6.2 months of supply, listings up about 78% from a year earlier; most recent sales are new builds	HAR Hockley market-area report, October 2026
Property-tax rate	From about $1.79 per $100 of value with no water district to about $3.39 in the newest MUD communities (2025 rates); no city line anywhere	Harris County Tax Office; HCAD; Waller CAD
Flood zones	About 18% of the ZIP is in FEMA Zone A or AE, along the Cypress Creek, Little Cypress Creek, and Spring Creek tributaries; the rest is Zone X	FEMA Map Service Center, Oct 2026
City services	None from a city. Water and sewer come from each subdivision’s utility district (or a well and septic on acreage), fire and EMS from an emergency services district (three service areas cover the ZIP), law enforcement from the county sheriff	TCEQ district map; Harris County 911 ESD layer

Where Hockley actually is (and isn’t)

Drive northwest out of Houston on U.S. 290, pass Cypress, cross the Grand Parkway, and the next eight miles or so of freeway are Hockley. The landmarks locals use are the farm roads that cross 290: Hegar Road, Roberts Road, Becker Road, Katy-Hockley Road, and FM 2920 where it meets the freeway. The old townsite sits along the Union Pacific line just south of 290, and almost everything new is being built on the prairie north and south of it.

Hockley is a mailing address. There is no City of Hockley, no city council, no city police, and no city tax, and nearly every 77447 address is unincorporated. That cuts both ways, and this guide comes back to it in the taxes and services sections. The county lines matter more than most people expect: the U.S. 290 corridor and everything south and east of the Waller County line is Harris County, the northwest third of the ZIP (Clear Creek Forest, Country Lane Estates, Maple Woods, Houston Oaks) is Waller County, and the far northeast corner is Montgomery County. Which side of a line your lot sits on decides which appraisal district values it, which tax office bills it, and which sheriff answers the phone. For the numbered map of every community along the corridor, see the community map on my Hockley page; for the Waller County side’s own towns, see my Waller, Texas guide.

The search results muddle one more thing: Hockley County, Texas, with its county seat at Levelland near Lubbock, is about 500 miles from here. If you have read a crime rate, a weather page, or a jail roster for “Hockley,” check which Hockley it was describing.

Who lives here and why: living in Hockley, TX day to day

The short answer is price. In HAR’s October 2026 market-area reports, the median sold price was about $340,000 in Hockley, $444,000 in Cypress North and $502,000 in Cypress South, and $484,000 in Katy–Southeast and $555,000 in Katy–Southwest. A buyer with the same budget gets a newer house, often a brand-new one, by driving one or two more exits up 290. What that budget buys in the neighboring cities is in my what $400K buys in Cypress and what $350K buys in Katy roundups.

The buyers I see choosing Hockley fall into a few groups. First- and second-time buyers who were priced out of Bridgeland or Towne Lake and want a new master-planned community with the pool, the trails, and the new elementary school. Families relocating from out of state who are working from home two or three days a week and care more about the house than the drive. People who work along the 290 corridor itself: at Daikin’s 4.2-million-square-foot campus on Kermier Road here in Hockley (open since 2017), at the businesses in Cypress, or at the hospitals and offices near the Grand Parkway. And a steady stream of buyers who want land: an acre or more, a shop building, room for horses or a garden, with a Houston job still within reach.

Daily life is still rural at the edges. A feed store sits a few minutes from a community with a resort-style pool, cattle still graze on Warren Ranch, which dates to 1883, and the Showboat Drive-In still runs movies. The everyday places are county parks: Zube Park on Roberts Road (225 acres, about three miles of trail, disc golf, fishing, a seasonal splash pad, and operating model trains) and the Hockley Recreational Complex with its community center. Kleb Woods Nature Preserve is just east of the ZIP, and the Houston Premium Outlets sit roughly ten minutes down 290 in Cypress. Big-box shopping, most restaurants, and both hospitals are in Cypress, so plan on that drive being part of the week.

On cost of living, housing is the line that favors Hockley and property tax is the line that can erase the difference. HOA dues in the new communities run roughly $950 to $1,230 a year (Redbud, Cypress Green, Everly, The Grand Prairie, Jubilee, per each community’s association), lower in the older sections, and often voluntary or absent on acreage. There is no city tax. The water district tax is the number to watch, and it gets its own section below.

Schools: Waller ISD, with one Bridgeland exception

This is the fact that surprises the most buyers. “Past Cypress” sounds like Cy-Fair ISD, and nearly all of Hockley is not. About 95% of the ZIP’s area is zoned to Waller ISD, the small Montgomery County corner is Magnolia ISD, and Cy-Fair ISD and Tomball ISD cover essentially none of it. Every master-planned community on the corridor, from Cypress Green and Dellrose north of 290 to Jubilee and The Grand Prairie south of it, is Waller ISD. The one exception that runs the other way is Bridgeland: its Creekland Village lots north of 290 carry the Hockley ZIP and are Waller ISD, while the rest of Bridgeland (Cypress 77433) is Cy-Fair.

TEA’s 2026 accountability ratings, as facts: Waller ISD is rated B (80) as a district. Waller High School, which every Waller ISD address in Hockley zones to today, is B (82). The two junior highs that serve the Hockley communities, Waller Junior High (78) and Schultz Junior High (75), are both rated C. The six elementaries range from A to C: Richard T. McReavy (A, 90), Bryan Lowe (B, 81, inside Dellrose), Evelyn Turlington (B, 81), Fields Store (B, 80), Roberts Road (C, 75), and I.T. Holleman (C, 75). Which campus a particular home zones to is decided by the exact address, and the lines move as the district grows, so check it on the Waller ISD locator rather than trusting a listing. Verify any rating at txschools.gov; my Waller ISD school directory lists the homes for sale zoned to each campus.

The change coming is a second high school. Warren Ranch High School, inside Jubilee and funded by the 2024 bond, is scheduled for fall 2028, and a junior high in Jubilee is planned to follow in 2029 (Waller ISD; Johnson Development). The district has said high-school zoning will change when Warren Ranch opens, so the campus an address zones to today may not be the one it zones to in 2028. Check the exact address on the Waller ISD locator before you rely on a zoning, and ask the district about its rezoning timeline if the high school matters to your decision.

The new-construction boom along FM 2920 and US-290

The building is the reason Hockley is on your list, so here is the lay of it as of October 2026. North of 290 along FM 2920 and Bauer Road, Cypress Green is the largest of the communities north of 290, with seven builders and roughly 2,300 recorded lots; Dellrose is nearly built out and selling its final section; Redbud and Everly are newer and smaller; and Bauer Landing and Cypress Trails at Bauer Landing, LGI’s communities off FM 2920, are among the corridor’s more affordable entry points. South of 290, The Grand Prairie is planned for about 6,000 homes around Lake Ember with Lennar, David Weekley, Perry, Westin, and Shea building, and Jubilee is Johnson Development’s 1,622-acre wellness community, home to the future Warren Ranch High School. On the Waller County side, Maple Woods opened in March 2026 with Century Communities and D.R. Horton. Hockley Meadows and the Hockley-ZIP sections of Bridgeland Creekland round out the list, and Stone Creek Ranch and Ranch Country are the built-out neighbors where the resale market is. My Hockley page carries the full map and a guide for each community I have written up, and the See All New Construction Homes in Hockley page shows what is for sale today.

The builder mix in plain terms: production builders selling from the mid $200,000s to the $400,000s on 40- to 60-foot lots, a few semi-custom builders at the top of that range, and in most communities a model-home row where you can walk four or five builders in an hour. The numbers that go with it: HAR’s October 2026 market-area report shows listings up about 78% from a year earlier and 6.2 months of supply, which is why builders here are negotiating on inventory homes. The incentives on offer right now, and what each one is worth, are in my October 2026 builder incentive roundup, and the mechanics are in how builder incentives really work.

Buying new here is a different decision than buying resale in Cypress, and I lay the two side by side in new construction vs. resale in Houston. The part of that comparison that matters most in Hockley is this: the builder’s price and the builder’s rate through its preferred lender are two separate offers, and the rate is often the bigger one. As a Texas Certified Residential Appraiser as well as a REALTOR®, I also pull the closed resales in a community’s older sections before you pick a lot, so you can see what homes there have actually sold for once the builder moved on. Bring your own real estate agent to the model home; the sales counselor represents the builder, and I explain why that matters in do you need your own real estate agent for new construction in Texas.

And the one thing the listing aggregators get wrong about this corridor, over and over: the school district and the county. Portals routinely tag Hockley homes as Cy-Fair ISD, Tomball ISD, or “Cypress,” and some count a Harris County lot as Waller County because of the Waller ISD tax line. The tax record on HCAD or Waller CAD settles both in two minutes, and I run that check before anyone falls in love with a floor plan.

Taxes: no city line, but mind the MUD

Every Harris County address in Hockley starts from the same base: Waller ISD, Harris County, the flood control district, the Port of Houston, Harris Health, and the Department of Education, which together came to about $1.69 per $100 of value for 2025. Add the emergency services district (roughly four to twenty cents, depending on the area), and a home with no water district pays about $1.79 to $1.89 in the communities I sampled. The line that varies most is the municipal utility district, the MUD, which builds and finances the water, sewer, drainage, and sometimes the roads in a new community and repays that debt through its own tax line. In Hockley the 2025 MUD lines run from zero to $1.50 per $100, so the combined 2025 rates run from about $1.79 up to about $3.39 in the newest districts. The Waller County side starts lower, at about $1.62 plus its ESD where it applies; Maple Woods adds a $1.50 district of its own.

Here is what that spread means in dollars, using a $305,000 home, about the 12-month median sale in ZIP 77447 (HAR MLS, October 2026), at the 2025 rates, rounded:

• No water district, ESD 200 (about $1.79): about $5,500 a year before exemptions, about $3,600 with a homestead exemption.
• Older, lower-rate districts (about $2.46 to $2.75): Ranch Country and Cypresswood Trails at about $2.46, Stone Creek Ranch at about $2.75; roughly $7,500 to $8,400 before exemptions, $5,500 to $6,500 with a homestead.
• Dellrose and Windrow (about $3.09): about $9,400 before exemptions, about $7,600 with a homestead.
• The $1.40 to $1.50 MUD communities (about $3.29 to $3.39): Jubilee, The Grand Prairie, the Becker communities, Cypress Green, Redbud, and Everly; about $10,000 to $10,300 before exemptions, about $8,200 to $8,500 with a homestead.

Two homes at the same price, a mile apart, can differ by close to $400 a month in taxes. That is the single most important number to put beside the list price in Hockley, and it is why I never let a buyer compare two homes here on price alone. The homestead figures use the $140,000 school homestead exemption Texas voters approved in November 2025 and the optional 20% local homestead exemptions the Harris County units offer; the over-65 school exemption lowers the bill further. A district’s rate tends to come down over the years as its bonds get paid off, but a brand-new district may still be selling its first bonds, so do not count on next year’s rate being lower than this year’s. For 2026, Waller ISD adopted a slightly lower rate ($1.0528, down from $1.0626) and four of the five Harris County units had adopted their rates by mid-October; no Hockley-area MUD had posted a 2026 rate as of October 17, 2026. The MUD you are buying into must be disclosed to you in writing before you sign a contract, and what is a MUD district explains the notice and the mechanics. Rates are from the Harris County Tax Office, HCAD, and Waller CAD; verify the parcel’s own record before you rely on any of this, and treat it as general information, not tax advice.

The commute, with the numbers

Hockley is car-dependent, and the commute runs down one freeway. U.S. 290 is the route to nearly everything, and the Grand Parkway is the second option toward Katy, the Energy Corridor, or the airport. Google’s typical drive times from U.S. 290 at Hegar Road for Tuesday, October 20, 2026, departing at 7:30 a.m. and again at 11 a.m., look like this:

• Grand Parkway (SH 99) at 290: 8 miles, 7 to 9 minutes either time.
• METRO Cypress Park & Ride: 11 miles, 10 to 14 minutes.
• Beltway 8 at 290: 21 miles, 24 to 45 minutes at 7:30 a.m.; 18 to 22 minutes at 11 a.m.
• Energy Corridor (Westlake Park Blvd): 27 to 30 miles, 35 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes at 7:30 a.m.; 28 to 35 minutes at 11 a.m.
• Galleria: 34 miles, 50 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes at 7:30 a.m.; 35 to 45 minutes at 11 a.m.
• Downtown (City Hall): 37 miles, 45 minutes to 1 hour 25 minutes at 7:30 a.m.; 35 to 45 minutes at 11 a.m.
• Texas Medical Center: 39 miles, 1 hour to 1 hour 50 minutes at 7:30 a.m.; 40 minutes to 1 hour at 11 a.m.
• Bush Intercontinental (IAH): 39 to 44 miles, 45 minutes to 1 hour 5 minutes at 7:30 a.m.; 35 to 45 minutes at 11 a.m.

Read the full range on each line. A 7:30 a.m. departure to downtown can be 45 minutes on a good day and nearly an hour and a half on a bad one, and the difference is usually one incident on 290. The nearest park and ride is METRO’s Cypress Park & Ride, 11 miles down 290, with Route 217 service to downtown on weekdays; the Grand Parkway Park & Ride that shows up in some searches is in Katy. One local detail: the Union Pacific line runs south of 290, and the north–south roads that cross it (Hegar, Roberts, Becker, Katy-Hockley, and others) cross at grade with a couple of trains a day.

For many buyers, the commute is the section that decides whether Hockley TX is a good place to live for them. Who it works for: anyone whose job is on the northwest side or along the 290 corridor, from Cypress to the Beltway; buyers headed to the Energy Corridor who can leave before 7 or after 8:30; and remote or hybrid workers who are downtown once or twice a week. Who it does not work for, in my experience: a daily desk at the Medical Center or downtown with a fixed 8 a.m. start. That buyer is usually happier in Cypress or closer in, even at a higher price.

Flood, water, and services

About 18 square miles of the ZIP, roughly 18% of its area, is mapped in FEMA Zone A or AE, the high-risk zones, and those areas follow the creeks: Cypress Creek and Little Cypress Creek on the south side, and the Spring Creek tributaries (Brushy, Threemile, Kickapoo, and Sugar creeks) on the north. The rest is Zone X. About 61% of the ZIP drains toward the headwaters of Cypress Creek and 39% toward Spring Creek, and the edge of the Addicks Reservoir watershed is less than a mile from the ZIP’s southern boundary, which is why Harris County Flood Control‘s planning for the upper Cypress Creek watershed covers this corridor. None of that is evidence about a particular lot, because flood risk here is parcel by parcel: many new communities have lots on the edges of a mapped zone, map amendments change the picture, and the effective Harris County panels date from 2007, 2013, and 2019. Pull the panel for the exact address at the FEMA Map Service Center, on a resale read the seller’s flood disclosure and claims history, on a new build ask the builder for the lot’s elevation certificate, and know that the Texas contract puts specific flood questions in front of you; I walk through them in Houston’s flood disclosure questions, mapped.

There is no city water or sewer. In the master-planned communities the MUD provides both through a contract operator, and trash pickup is set up by the district or the HOA in most of them. On acreage and in many of the Waller County subdivisions, the house is on a private well and septic, which means a well and septic inspection during the option period and a different set of maintenance habits. Electricity is deregulated across the ZIP with CenterPoint as the wires company, so you choose a retail provider; on the Waller and Montgomery county sides, confirm the address is not in a co-op’s territory. Natural gas, where a community has it, is UniGas, SiEnergy, or CenterPoint depending on the subdivision, and a lot of the acreage homes run all-electric or on a propane tank. Internet is address-by-address; check the exact address on the FCC broadband map before you assume a provider serves it.

Fire and EMS come from emergency services districts, and which one depends on where the home sits: Waller-Harris ESD 200 on the south and west side (Jubilee, The Grand Prairie), Harris County ESD 21 (Spring Creek Fire) with ESD 3 for EMS on the north and east side (Dellrose, Cypress Green, Redbud, Bauer Landing), and ESD 9 (Cy-Fair Fire) in the southeast (Stone Creek Ranch, Bridgeland Creekland). Law enforcement is the Harris County Sheriff’s Office in the Harris County part of the ZIP and the Waller and Montgomery county sheriffs elsewhere. The two nearest hospitals are both on U.S. 290 in Cypress, Memorial Hermann Cypress and Houston Methodist Cypress, southeast of the ZIP.

Hockley vs. Cypress, in one paragraph

You get a newer house for less in Hockley, and you trade commute and school district to get it. Cypress has the established master-planned communities, Cy-Fair ISD, two hospitals, the shopping, and a shorter drive; Hockley has the new construction, the lower entry price, the land, and Waller ISD. For a buyer who can work with the drive and is comfortable with the Waller ISD campuses, Hockley is the better value on the house itself. For a buyer who needs the shorter commute or is set on Cy-Fair ISD, Cypress wins even at the higher price. The Cypress side of that comparison is in living in Cypress, TX and on my Cypress real estate page, and if Katy is also on your list, Katy vs. Cypress covers that pair. A full Hockley-versus-Cypress comparison is a post of its own, and it is on my list; every city and community guide I have written is collected on my Houston neighborhoods page.

How I help buyers in Hockley

Hockley works well for the buyer who does the homework before writing an offer, and I run the same checks on every home we consider: which county the lot is in, which campuses the address zones to today and what the 2028 rezoning might do to that, which MUD the home sits in and its current rate, the FEMA panel for the parcel, and which emergency services district serves it. That takes me about fifteen minutes with the appraisal district record, the district map, and the FEMA map, and it changes the monthly payment, sometimes by hundreds of dollars, before we ever talk about price.

Touring here is efficient if you plan it. The corridor communities sit within about fifteen minutes of each other, so we can see Cypress Green, Dellrose, Redbud, and Everly north of 290 and Jubilee and The Grand Prairie south of it in one loop, with the model-home rows and the resale listings on the same drive. At the builder’s table, I represent you: the sales counselor works for the builder, and my job is the contract terms, the incentive math against the resale alternative, the inspections a new build still needs, and the walk-through before closing. Compensation for that work is set out in a written buyer representation agreement before we look at a single home, and in my own transactions it has been covered by the seller, either in the listing or as a concession negotiated in the offer; how that works is in who pays the real estate buyer’s agent in Texas.

If you are interviewing more than one real estate agent for Hockley, and you should, here are the questions any of us should answer without looking anything up: which school district is this address in, and which campus; what is the MUD rate on this home and how does it compare to the community next door; is any part of this lot in a mapped flood zone; and what has this builder’s resale looked like in its older sections. A real estate agent who works the corridor will have those answers. My guide to how to choose a Realtor covers the rest, and what representation includes from the first showing to closing is on my Houston home-buying page.

Frequently asked questions about living in Hockley, TX

Is Hockley, TX a good place to live?

Yes, for a buyer who wants a new home in a master-planned community for less than Cypress or Katy and can live with a longer commute on one freeway and a Waller ISD address. The trade-offs are the property-tax stack in the newest MUD communities, the drive into Houston, and the fact that water, fire, and law enforcement come from districts and the county rather than a city. In HAR’s October 2026 market-area report the median sold price was about $340,000, against $444,000 to $502,000 in Cypress and $484,000 to $555,000 in Katy.

What county is Hockley, TX in?

Three counties. About 67% of the 77447 ZIP code’s area is in Harris County, about 28% in Waller County, and about 5% in Montgomery County. The U.S. 290 corridor and everything south and east of the Waller County line is Harris County, the northwest third is Waller County, and the far northeast corner is Montgomery County. The parcel’s appraisal record on HCAD or Waller CAD tells you which one a specific home is in.

Is Hockley in the City of Houston?

No. Hockley is an unincorporated area with no city government of its own, and nearly every 77447 address is outside any city limits. There is no city tax line on a Hockley tax bill. Services that a city would provide come instead from the county, each subdivision’s utility district, and an emergency services district.

What school district is Hockley, TX in?

Waller ISD for about 95% of the ZIP, rated B (80) by the Texas Education Agency for 2026. The small Montgomery County corner is Magnolia ISD, rated B (87). Cy-Fair ISD and Tomball ISD cover essentially none of Hockley, even though portals often say otherwise. Waller ISD’s second high school, Warren Ranch High School inside Jubilee, is scheduled for fall 2028, and the attendance zones will be redrawn when it opens.

How far is Hockley from Houston?

About 37 road miles from U.S. 290 at Hegar Road to Houston City Hall. Google’s typical drive time for Tuesday, October 20, 2026 was 45 minutes to 1 hour 25 minutes departing at 7:30 a.m. and 35 to 45 minutes at 11 a.m. The Energy Corridor is 27 to 30 miles and 35 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes at 7:30 a.m., and the Grand Parkway is about 8 miles and 7 to 9 minutes.

Are property taxes high in Hockley?

It depends on the water district. There is no city tax, and a Harris County home with no MUD paid about $1.79 per $100 of value for 2025, while the newest master-planned communities with a $1.40 to $1.50 MUD line paid about $3.29 to $3.39. On a $305,000 home, about the 12-month median sale in the ZIP, that is roughly $5,500 a year versus $10,000 to $10,300 before exemptions, or about $3,600 versus $8,200 to $8,500 with a homestead exemption. Rates are 2025 adopted rates from the Harris County Tax Office and the appraisal districts; verify the parcel’s own record.

Is Hockley in a flood zone?

About 18% of the 77447 ZIP is mapped in FEMA Zone A or AE, following Cypress Creek, Little Cypress Creek, and the Spring Creek tributaries; the rest is Zone X. Risk is parcel-specific, so pull the FEMA panel for the exact address, read the seller’s flood disclosure on a resale or ask the builder for the elevation certificate on a new build, and check whether the lot sits on the edge of a mapped zone.

What is the difference between Hockley and Cypress?

Hockley is newer, less expensive, and farther out; Cypress is established, closer in, and in Cy-Fair ISD. In October 2026 the median sold price was about $340,000 in Hockley versus $444,000 to $502,000 in Cypress, and most Hockley sales are new construction in Waller ISD communities. A buyer chooses Hockley for the newer house at a lower price and chooses Cypress for the shorter commute, the shopping and hospitals, and Cy-Fair ISD.

Last updated: October 2026 · Market figures from HAR’s Hockley, Cypress, and Katy market-area reports for October 2026 and the HAR MLS 12-month pull for ZIP 77447 (October 17, 2026); tax rates are 2025 adopted rates from the Harris County Tax Office, the Harris Central Appraisal District, and the Waller County Appraisal District, with dollar examples rounded; school ratings from the Texas Education Agency’s 2026 accountability ratings; county and school-district shares from Census TIGERweb; flood-zone share from the FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer; population from the 2020–2024 American Community Survey; drive times are Google Maps typical times for October 20, 2026. General information, not legal, tax, or lending advice. This guide is refreshed when those sources update.

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