Housing in Kingwood Area at a glance
- Population
- about 56,121
- Housing units
- about 21,185
- Median value, owner-occupied homes
- $333,000Houston: $277,800 (+20%)
- Median gross rent
- $1,790 a monthHouston: $1,361 (+32%)
- Owner-occupied homes
- 76.2%Houston: 42.1%
- Homes built before 1980
- 27.4%
- Median year built
- 1986
Kingwood Area, in the north-east of Houston, is the city's strongest owner sector by a wide margin: 76.2% of households hold title, versus 42.1% across the rest of Houston, and no other sector is near it. It also leads the city on rent, with tenants paying $1,790, a full 32% over the Houston level. Home values sit at $333,000, 20% above the city and fourth of ten. The nearby sectors are priced very differently, since Greater Uptown shows $515,000 and Memorial shows $733,000, while Mid West shows $266,000 with just 19.5% owner households. Construction is on the recent side here: the typical home dates from 1986, and only 27.4% of the housing predates 1980, ranking Kingwood ninth for older stock, near the bottom of the list. The combination of the top owner share, the top rent and a fairly young housing stock makes Kingwood Area easy to tell apart from the older, renter-heavy sectors found on the other side of the city.
Questions about Kingwood Area
What is the median home value in Kingwood Area, Houston?
$333,000 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 Kingwood Area?
$1,790 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 Kingwood Area own or rent?
Most own: 76.2% 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 11 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.
Kingwood Area is one of the 10 most populous of 88 super neighborhoods of Houston: estimated population about 56,121 (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 Kingwood Area
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 Kingwood Area. 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 Kingwood Area? Ask for your spot.