Housing in Clear Lake at a glance
- Population
- about 70,910
- Housing units
- about 32,592
- Median value, owner-occupied homes
- $299,000Houston: $277,800 (+8%)
- Median gross rent
- $1,360 a monthHouston: $1,361 (0%)
- Owner-occupied homes
- 54.5%Houston: 42.1%
- Homes built before 1980
- 36.4%
- Median year built
- 1984
On the south-east side of Houston, Clear Lake lines up with the city on price and departs from it on tenure. Owners estimate $299,000, 8% above the $277,800 for all of Houston, and tenants pay $1,360, within a dollar of the city's $1,361. Where the sector parts ways is ownership: 54.5% of households own, 12.4 points more than the Houston average of 42.1%, giving it fourth place among ten. South Belt / Ellington shares that owner-leaning pattern at 58.6% but values homes lower, at $232,000, while Central Southwest comes in at $198,000 and Greater Uptown towers at $515,000. Taken together, the picture is of a sector that mirrors Houston on cost while holding noticeably more owners, a pattern that sets it apart from Mid West and Sharpstown. The stock in Clear Lake is fairly typical for the city: its midpoint house goes back to 1984, and 36.4% of the dwellings pre-date 1980.
Questions about Clear Lake
What is the median home value in Clear Lake, Houston?
$299,000 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 Clear Lake?
$1,360 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 Clear Lake own or rent?
Most own: 54.5% 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 19 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.
Clear Lake is one of the 10 most populous of 88 super neighborhoods of Houston: estimated population about 70,910 (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 Clear Lake
The closest sectors of Houston, by distance between population centres.
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Five trades, one spot each
Payotte lists one professional per trade in Clear Lake. 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 Clear Lake? Ask for your spot.