Housing in Alief at a glance
- Population
- about 104,397
- Housing units
- about 37,146
- Median value, owner-occupied homes
- $196,000Houston: $277,800 (-29%)
- Median gross rent
- $1,290 a monthHouston: $1,361 (-5%)
- Owner-occupied homes
- 44.5%Houston: 42.1%
- Homes built before 1980
- 47.8%
- Median year built
- 1980
Alief is where Houston's home values bottom out. At $196,000, its owner-reported median is the lowest among ten sectors with data and 29% under the $277,800 figure for Houston. Renting costs far closer to the average: $1,290 monthly, only 5% below the city, which puts Alief ninth of ten rather than last, so tenants fare better than owners do in relative terms. Ownership runs a bit above the city norm, with 44.5% of households holding title against 42.1% citywide. Sharpstown, on its flank, sits at $228,000, Mid West is at $266,000, and Eldridge / West Oaks reaches a far loftier $385,000, so values rise sharply in each direction from Alief, which lies on the west side of Houston. The stock is middle-aged: the typical home arrived in 1980, and 47.8% of all homes are older than that, the fourth-largest share in the city, so the sector is neither the oldest nor the newest part of western Houston.
Questions about Alief
What is the median home value in Alief, Houston?
$196,000 for owner-occupied homes, against $277,800 for Houston as a whole (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary). It is the owners' own estimate of their home's value, not a sale price.
What is the median rent in Alief?
$1,290 a month in gross rent (rent plus utilities paid by the renter), against $1,361 in Houston (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary).
Do most people in Alief own or rent?
Most rent: 44.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, against 42.1% in Houston (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary).
Data and method
Data as of: American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, U.S. Census Bureau (retrieved 2026-11-02).
Estimate from the 26 census tracts whose internal point lies within the official boundary: counts are summed, and each median is recomputed from the summed value, rent and year-built brackets (grouped median, linear interpolation). The gap with the city is measured with the same method on the whole city.
Alief is one of the 10 most populous of 88 super neighborhoods of Houston: estimated population about 104,397 (Payotte estimate: Census ACS 2020-2024 populations of the census tracts whose internal point lies inside the boundary; boundaries from City of Houston GIS, Super Neighborhoods (COH_Super_Neighborhoods_view), consulted 2026-11-02).
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, tables B01003, B25001, B25003, B25034, B25063, B25064, B25075, B25077; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer files (census tract internal points). City figures: the same survey, published for Houston as a whole. Home values are owners' estimates, not sale prices.
Near Alief
The closest sectors of Houston, by distance between population centres.
Other sectors of Houston
Five trades, one spot each
Payotte lists one professional per trade in Alief. No one is listed yet: every spot is open.
- Real estate agentOpen spot
- Mortgage loan officerOpen spot
- Home inspectorOpen spot
- Real estate attorneyOpen spot
- AppraiserOpen spot
Work in one of these trades in Alief? Ask for your spot.