Fairfield Realtor — Your Local Guide to Fairfield, Cypress TX 77433

Fairfield at a glance

Figures are point-in-time and vary by village and address — verify before relying. Not legal or tax advice.

Where Fairfield is

Fairfield sits in unincorporated northwest Harris County, in the Cypress-Fairbanks (“Cy-Fair”) area, ZIP 77433, along US-290 (the Northwest Freeway) generally between Mason Road and the Grand Parkway (SH 99). Mueschke Road and Cypresswood Drive are among its bounding and access roads, and the community’s own utility district places it roughly 30 miles northwest of Downtown, with access via US-290 to Mason Road. Because it’s unincorporated, there’s no city property tax — services come from Harris County, several municipal utility districts (MUDs) and a water-control district, and the HOA.

For getting around, the Grand Parkway (SH 99) runs just west of the community — residents commonly reach it via Cumberland Ridge Drive — and connects north toward SH 249/Tomball and south to I-10 and the Energy Corridor. US-290 is the front door, and Beltway 8 is a few miles southeast. In typical traffic, Downtown runs about 33 minutes off-peak (roughly 25–30 miles) via US-290 and can top 40+ minutes at rush hour, the Energy Corridor is roughly 20–25 minutes off-peak, the Galleria/Uptown about 30 minutes, and the Texas Medical Center commonly 35–40 minutes.

The feel of the area

What defines Fairfield is the amenity network woven through it — a community built around water and green space rather than a single town square. There are eight man-made lakes for catch-and-release fishing, six neighborhood parks, six neighborhood pools, a splash pad and a dog park along Green Ripple Circle, numerous pocket parks, and miles of greenbelt trails connecting the villages. The hub is the Fairfield Athletic Club, a roughly 15,000-square-foot recreation center with a fitness facility, an indoor and outdoor basketball court, a competition-size pool and children’s pool, six lighted tennis courts, and special-events and classroom rooms — wrapped by a 20-acre sports park with baseball and soccer fields, with the 10-acre Weaver Sports Park and 5-acre Roberts Field nearby. Because build-out finished years ago, the trees are grown in and the amenities are long established rather than promised on a site plan.

Fairfield homes for sale: the stock and the market

Fairfield is predominantly single-family detached — traditional and brick elevations with two-car garages — with some sections offering backyard pools and lake or greenbelt lots. Because the community built out in phases, home ages span roughly the early 1990s through the 2010s, with older homes concentrated in the eastern and southeastern sections and newer ones to the north and west. Builders that worked here over the years include Lennar, Trendmaker Homes, David Weekley Homes, Tri Pointe Homes, Frontier Custom Homes, and Perry Homes, so styles and floor plans vary by section. Home sizes run broadly — from roughly 1,569 square feet up past 5,000 — on lots from small interior sites to large premium ones. The key thing to know up front: Fairfield is fully built out, so there’s no new construction — the inventory is entirely resale. Buyers set on a brand-new home typically look to neighboring communities like Bridgeland, Dunham Pointe, Bridge Creek, or Avalon at Cypress.

As of early 2026, typical Fairfield homes sell in the low-to-mid $400,000s — Fairfield-focused realtor data puts the median list around $410,000–$419,500, while an HAR active-listing snapshot averaged closer to $463,000 (an averaged snapshot, not a closed-sale median) — at roughly $150–$165/sq ft, ranging from about $220,000 for smaller or older resale to $600,000+ for larger, updated homes. Zoomed out, early 2026 read as a buyer’s-leaning Cypress market (median around $407,900, a 94.6% sale-to-list ratio, about 45.7% of listings cutting price, and a median 38 days on market). You can browse every active listing on my continually updated Fairfield homes for sale page, straight from the HAR MLS. Figures are point-in-time — ask me for this week’s numbers in a specific village.

Featured Fairfield Homes For Sale

$354,900 Active

14823 Yellow Begonia Drive Cypress, Texas

3 Beds 2 Baths 2,148 SqFt 0.165 Acres

$499,000 Pending

14806 S Canary Yellow Circle Cypress, Texas

4 Beds 4 Baths 3,272 SqFt 0.195 Acres

$310,000 Active

20335 Sable Acre Court Cypress, Texas

3 Beds 3 Baths 1,764 SqFt 0.113 Acres

$400,000 Active

16403 Mauve Orchid Way Cypress, Texas

4 Beds 3 Baths 2,298 SqFt 0.249 Acres

$363,000 Active

15410 Redbud Berry Way Cypress, Texas

4 Beds 2 Baths 1,972 SqFt 0.146 Acres

$319,900 Active

15734 Bending Birch Drive Cypress, Texas

3 Beds 2 Baths 1,865 SqFt 0.155 Acres

See all Fairfield homes for sale →

The villages at a glance

Fairfield isn’t one subdivision — it’s eight named villages, and which one you’re in shapes your home’s age, size, lot, and price point. All are fully built out and trade as resale, and all are zoned to Cy-Fair ISD — but high-school zoning in particular is address-specific, so verify a home’s exact campuses before relying on them:

Older homes cluster in the eastern and southeastern villages, with newer construction to the north and west — but since the whole community is resale now, the practical differences are home age, size, and lot, plus the specific school assignment. One wrinkle worth knowing: the subdivision names above (from HAR/MLS) don’t always match the Fairfield Village Community Association’s own village portals — Fairfield Village, Central, Place, Village South, Lakes, and Trails — so I’ll confirm the exact association and dues that apply to a specific address. Whichever village you’re considering, I’ll pull the exact MUD rate, HOA dues, and school zoning before you write an offer.

Schools

Fairfield is zoned entirely to Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (Cy-Fair ISD) — Texas’s third-largest district — which earned an overall “B” (85 out of 100) from the Texas Education Agency for 2025, its third consecutive “B.” The community has three on-site elementaries — Ault, Keith, and Swenke — and Salyards Middle School sits inside the community (SchoolDigger places Salyards among the top ~6% of Texas middle schools on its 2025 scoring). For high school, most Fairfield streets feed to Bridgeland High School (opened 2017), which earned a TEA “A” for 2025; some sections were historically zoned to Cypress Ranch High School, which also earned a TEA “A.” Reported as sourced facts, not endorsements.

School zoning is set by the exact property address, and Cy-Fair rezones periodically — high-school boundaries in particular have shifted for Fairfield streets over the years — so always confirm a home’s specific campuses at txschools.gov and with Cy-Fair ISD directly, and see my Schools page for Cy-Fair campuses with ratings and maps. Note that 77433 is a large ZIP covering more than Fairfield.

Campus detail pages with ratings, maps, and zoned homes: Ault Elementary, Keith Elementary, Swenke Elementary, Salyards Middle, Bridgeland High, and Cypress Ranch High.

Getting around & commute

Fairfield’s position on US-290 with the Grand Parkway alongside makes the northwest and west job centers reachable and the central ones a longer haul. In typical traffic: Downtown runs about 33 minutes off-peak (roughly 25–30 miles) via US-290, longer at rush hour; the Energy Corridor is roughly 20–25 minutes off-peak via US-290/I-10 or the Grand Parkway; the Galleria/Uptown is about 30 minutes; and the Texas Medical Center is commonly 35–40 minutes. Houston METRO’s Cypress Park & Ride, about five miles away, runs commuter buses to Downtown on the HOV lanes in roughly 37 minutes; there’s no rail, and METRO doesn’t serve the airports directly, so cars are essential for most trips. Bush Intercontinental (IAH) is about 35 miles / 40 minutes east via Beltway 8 or SH 249; Hobby (HOU) is farther south, typically 45–60+ minutes.

Flood risk — what to check before you buy

Fairfield sits in the Cypress Creek watershed in northwest Harris County — not inside the Addicks or Barker reservoir flood pools, which are farther south and west (the Harvey-era reservoir-release flooding hit west Cypress areas near Fry Road/Queenston, not Fairfield’s watershed). The distinction matters, because “did Cypress-area homes flood in Harvey?” and “did Fairfield’s homes flood?” are two different questions. The Cypress Creek watershed as a whole did flood badly in the April 2016 Tax Day storm and Hurricane Harvey (2017) — roughly 8,750 homes damaged watershed-wide in Harvey and about 1,735 in 2016 — but those are watershed-wide totals covering many neighborhoods, concentrated along the creek itself, and they do not represent Fairfield.

Fairfield was engineered with detention and drainage, and its eight community lakes double as stormwater detention designed to hold and move runoff in heavy rain. In my own visits to the community after those storms, Fairfield’s streets and homes came through without the home flooding seen elsewhere in the watershed, and I’ve found no Fairfield-specific flood reporting. That’s a genuine point in its favor, but it’s a track record, not a parcel-by-parcel guarantee. Before you make an offer on any specific home, pull its current flood designation at the FEMA Flood Map Service Center and ask for the property’s flood history for the exact address — risk varies street to street, sometimes lot to lot. I’ll help you check it lot by lot.

Things to do nearby

Inside Fairfield, recreation clusters around the water and the athletic club — the eight lakes and lakeside trails, six pools, six parks, the splash pad and dog park, and the Fairfield Athletic Club with its competition pool, tennis courts, fitness center, and 20-acre sports park, plus Weaver Sports Park and Roberts Field. Beyond the community, the northwest gives you a real menu. Houston Premium Outlets (about 145 outlet stores) sits immediately adjacent at US-290 and Fairfield Place Drive, and Fairfield Town Center along US-290 brings H-E-B Fairfield Market, Kroger Marketplace, Academy, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Ulta, and numerous restaurants. A few miles away, The Boardwalk at Towne Lake offers waterfront dining and retail; The Berry Center hosts Cy-Fair ISD sports and events on Barker Cypress; and Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Splashtown is up US-290. Little Cypress Creek Preserve and Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth Park are close by for trails and open space.

Work With a Fairfield Realtor

Whether you’re buying or selling, having a Fairfield Realtor who knows the villages — how home age and price shift from the older east side to the newer north and west, how the MUD and tax picture varies section to section, and how a home’s location reads to the next buyer — saves you money and second-guessing. I’m Kevan Pewitt, broker-owner of Houston Prime Realty, a licensed Texas real estate broker since 1989, a REALTOR®, and a Certified Residential Appraiser, so the pricing advice you get is grounded 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 Fairfield in?

Fairfield is in 77433, in the Cypress area of unincorporated northwest Harris County.

What school district serves Fairfield?

Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (Cy-Fair ISD) — with three on-site elementaries (Ault, Keith, and Swenke), Salyards Middle inside the community, and most streets feeding Bridgeland High (some sections historically Cypress Ranch). Bridgeland and Cypress Ranch both earned TEA “A” ratings for 2025, and the district is rated “B.” Zoning is set by address, so verify the exact campuses at txschools.gov.

What’s the typical home price in Fairfield?

As of early 2026, typical homes sell in the low-to-mid $400,000s (Fairfield realtor data ~$410,000–$419,500 median list; an HAR listing snapshot averaged ~$463,000), at roughly $150–$165 per square foot. The range runs from about $220,000 for smaller or older resale to $600,000+ for larger, updated homes.

Did Fairfield flood during Harvey?

The Cypress Creek watershed flooded severely in Harvey (2017) and the 2016 Tax Day storm, but those large damage totals (~8,750 and ~1,735 homes) are watershed-wide and cover many neighborhoods — not Fairfield. Fairfield itself, which has engineered drainage and detention lakes, came through those events without home flooding, and it’s not in the Addicks/Barker reservoir pools. As with any home, confirm the specific address’s FEMA flood map designation and flood history before you rely on it.

What are the property taxes in Fairfield?

Roughly 2.4%–2.6% of value combined, depending on which Harris County MUD/WCID serves the lot. The bill combines Cy-Fair ISD, Harris County entities, Lone Star College, and a MUD — for example, Harris County MUD 354 adopted a 2025 rate of $0.275 per $100 (down from $0.39 in 2023 as infrastructure debt is retired). Confirm the exact MUD and rate for the address at HCAD.org.

What are the HOA dues, and are there resale fees?

Through the Fairfield Village Community Association (managed by FirstService Residential), annual dues run roughly $570–$990/year depending on the village or section, funding the Athletic Club, pools, parks, lakes, trails, and common-area maintenance. Any seller-paid transfer, capitalization, or enhancement fee due at closing isn’t published publicly for Fairfield — order the HOA resale certificate through the management company to confirm the exact dues and fees for the specific home.

Is there still new construction in Fairfield?

No. Fairfield is fully built out (build-out completed around 2008), so it’s entirely a resale market with no active builders or new homes. Buyers wanting new construction typically look to nearby Bridgeland, Dunham Pointe, Bridge Creek, or Avalon at Cypress.

Questions About Fairfield? Send Me a Note

Have a question about a specific village, school zoning, HOA dues, or what’s on the market right now? Send me a message and I’ll get back to you personally.