Housing in Greater Uptown at a glance
- Population
- about 58,268
- Housing units
- about 37,434
- Median value, owner-occupied homes
- $515,000Houston: $277,800 (+85%)
- Median gross rent
- $1,730 a monthHouston: $1,361 (+27%)
- Owner-occupied homes
- 39.9%Houston: 42.1%
- Homes built before 1980
- 41.7%
- Median year built
- 1986
Greater Uptown sits near the population centre of Houston and prices accordingly. Owners estimate $515,000, 85% higher than Houston's $277,800 and second only to Memorial, while tenants pay $1,730 each month, 27% over the city and also second. Households are slightly more likely to rent than in Houston at large, with 39.9% owning against the city's 42.1%, which puts the sector seventh for owner share. The neighbours look modest by comparison: Mid West records $266,000 and Sharpstown $228,000, and Mid West has only 19.5% owners. Memorial, by contrast, tops it at $733,000. The stock is moderately aged, with a midpoint house from 1986 and 41.7% of the dwellings older than 1980, the fifth-largest share in the city, so the high prices here are not tied to brand-new construction. Sharpstown, for example, also has older stock at 64.7%, but its owners report far lower values, which suggests that location and not age is what drives the price level of this central sector.
Questions about Greater Uptown
What is the median home value in Greater Uptown, Houston?
$515,000 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 Greater Uptown?
$1,730 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 Greater Uptown own or rent?
Most rent: 39.9% 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 23 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.
Greater Uptown is one of the 10 most populous of 88 super neighborhoods of Houston: estimated population about 58,268 (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 Greater Uptown
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 Greater Uptown. 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 Greater Uptown? Ask for your spot.