Community Guide
Living in Hockley, Texas
Hockley is the stretch of US-290 between Cypress and Waller where The Grand Prairie, Cypress Green and Jubilee are turning prairie into subdivisions. Roughly three of every four listings are new construction.
Get to know Hockley
Welcome to Hockley
Most Hockley addresses fall in Waller ISD, with some in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, so the zoned district varies by street. Older acreage tracts along the farm roads still list alongside the new plats.
This is subdivision-lot territory: most homes sit on conventional lots of well under a quarter acre. Most of what is for sale is brand-new or still under construction. FEMA special flood hazard areas touch only a small share of the current listings. Prices, inventory and school data on this page are live from our MLS feed, not a quarterly snapshot.
Why people love living here
What makes Hockley, Hockley
Here's what draws people to Hockley — and keeps them here.
Housing Mix
Hockley listings span a range of price bands, build years and lot sizes; the live figures on this page show the current mix rather than a fixed description.
School Zoning
Attendance zones are set by address, not by city limits. The live school table below lists each campus, its state rating and the homes currently zoned to it.
Price per Square Foot
Price per square foot in Hockley is tracked live from our MLS feed, alongside median sale price, days on market and months of inventory.
Subdivisions & HOAs
Where a Hockley subdivision carries an HOA, the dues and the pools, trails or amenity centers they fund appear on each listing.
Houston Access
Drive times from Hockley to Houston's major job centers are shown on the commute panel of this page.
Shopping & Dining
Grocery, retail and dining locations near Hockley are plotted on the amenity map below.
Browse Hockley listings
Homes for sale in Hockley right now
Pulled live from our own MLS, re-synced from the source every 5 minutes — new listings and price drops land here before the big portals show them. The full local feed, the true days a home's really been on the market, real flood-zone exposure, and the value analysis we build for our clients.
Just Listed — last 3 days
10 homes
Showing 10 of 10
$228,990
16262 Meadowview Sky Lane
MLS #61133868
$279,000
23719 Cranberry Grader Lane
MLS #12477842
$365,000
16123 Laura Beth Drive
MLS #90296282
$375,000
26515 Jolly Prairie Drive
MLS #13559022
$292,990
22055 Ponticelli Drive
MLS #21077491
$320,990
22027 Ponticelli Drive
MLS #69516837
$229,500
17827 Planted Orchard Drive
MLS #66006514
$449,925
26310 Elated Plains Path
MLS #12751856
$467,925
26310 Joint Elation Drive
MLS #4767148
$399,925
26510 Delightful Drive
MLS #15792583
That’s every home in this view — 10 of 10.
The Hockley real estate market
What the numbers mean
Not just numbers — what they tell you. Median price, how fast homes really sell, where prices are heading, and which neighborhoods are heating up. Live from our MLS feed, with Allen's plain-English read.
Hockley is a balanced market right now — about 5.6 months of inventory, yet roughly 58% of active sellers have already cut their price, so well-prepared buyers still have room to negotiate. The median home sells around $305,000, and the typical listing has truly been on the market about 100 days.
Each figure is compared with the same period last year. Where last year's data isn't in our feed yet, you'll see "—".
$300,000
Median sale
homes sold, last 30 days
0% YoY
a year ago: $299,000
103
Homes sold
last 30 days
-16% YoY
a year ago: 123
102
Avg days on mkt
homes sold, last 30 days
+40% YoY
a year ago: 73
$164
Price / sqft
homes sold, last 30 days
+5% YoY
a year ago: $156
243
New listings
last 30 days
+46% YoY
a year ago: 166
114
Went pending
last 30 days
-1% YoY
a year ago: 115
These tiles cover the last 30 days. The median sale price at the top covers the last 6 months, and the days-on-market figure in the read above is for homes for sale right now, so the numbers differ.
Waller ISD · area schools
Schools in Hockley
Click a school dot for its grades, enrollment, current TEA rating, and the homes for sale zoned to it — or search the list on the left. Shaded areas are the high-school attendance zones.
Click a school — a dot on the map or a name in the list — to see its info card, its zone shaded on the map, and the homes for sale zoned to it. Use the buttons on the left to trim the list: click Elementary, Middle, or High to hide or show that school type, and click a letter grade to hide or show schools with that rating. Where dots sit on top of each other, click the same spot again to step through them.
How this works: each dot is a school in Hockley (location from our schools dataset); ratings are 2025 Texas Education Agency accountability grades. Homes-for-sale counts are live from the AWS MLS feed (active & pending, residential), matched to each school by its zoned-school name. The shaded areas are high-school attendance zones — the only attendance boundaries published for this district.
Ratings = 2025 Texas Education Agency accountability grades (A–F). Newer campuses may be unrated.
Explore the neighborhood
Everything that makes Hockley home
Restaurants, parks, grocery, schools, hospitals and more — mapped across the area. Toggle a category on or off, click any pin for details, and flip on the FEMA flood layer to see exactly where the flood plain sits.
What's nearby
2,000 places mapped across Hockley. Toggle a category on or off.
Amenities mapped near Hockley, Texas: 733 gas stations, 576 banks, 547 coffee shops, 111 daycares, 33 dog parks.
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Build a home search that excludes — or includes — the flood plain. Your call.
Flood zones affect your insurance cost, not whether a home is a bad buy — and we're the only site that lets you filter them right out of your search (or zero in on them). Two homes on the same street can sit in different zones; we show real exposure on every listing.
Search with the flood filterThe honest picture
468
Flood claims on record
$28,728,384
Paid out (NFIP)
Across the Hockley ZIP codes, 1994–2024 — real federal flood-insurance history, not a worst-case map. About 293 of those came from Hurricane Harvey alone (2017), a once-in-a-generation storm. Most Hockley homes have never flooded; risk is very address-specific, and we'll walk through any home's exact exposure with you.
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program claims, by Hockley ZIP code.
How far to everything
The real drive from Hockley
No sugar-coating — here's the honest, traffic-aware drive time to Houston's major job centers and airports, averaged across local homes.
48min
Downtown Houston
45min
The Galleria
50min
Bush / IAH Airport
51min
Texas Medical Center
63min
Hobby Airport
Here's the real, traffic-aware drive from Hockley, averaged across Hockley homes (664 listings). Your exact commute depends on which part of Hockley you're in and the time of day — we'll show per-home drive times when you tour.
Who lives here
The people of Hockley
A quick demographic snapshot of Hockley, straight from the U.S. Census — population, who owns vs. rents, education, household size and more.
102,034
People
19 census tracts
$255,700
Median home value
owner-occupied
$1,453
Median gross rent
per month
$81,017
Median household income
per household
$35,238
Per-capita income
ACS estimate
34.3
Median age
years
2.98
Avg household size
people
30%
Bachelor's degree+
adults 25+
67%
Own their home
vs. rent
Who owns vs. rents
Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, 2023, aggregated across the 19 census tracts that make up Hockley. Missing figures are marked "—".
Neighborhoods & communities
Hockley isn't one market
it's dozens
Hockley spans 24+ active communities — each with its own pricing, amenities and feel. Search the list or explore the map — hover either one and the other lights up, with live numbers for that neighborhood.
Layered communities: in Hockley, smaller neighborhoods often sit inside a larger master-planned community — so those homes pay two HOA fees, and the MLS lists both. Where footprints overlap on the map, click the same spot more than once to step through the stacked HOAs (smallest first).
24 of 24 communities
How this works: footprints are the convex hull of each community's listings over the last five years (active plus sold) — a denser, more representative outline from our own data, but still an approximation, not a surveyed HOA boundary. Numbers (active, pending, avg price, new-30d) are live from the AWS MLS feed for Hockley, residential for-sale only. 24 communities with 3+ active listings shown.
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Good to know
Hockley, Texas: common questions
Straight answers to what buyers and sellers ask most about Hockley — woven with live market data.
- What is the housing market like in Hockley?
- The Hockley market is measured live on this page: median sale price, price per square foot, days on market, months of inventory and the number of homes for sale all refresh from our MLS feed.
- What school district serves Hockley?
- Most of Hockley is served by Waller ISD. Zoning is address-specific, so confirm the campuses for the exact home — the school table above is live from the MLS.
- What are the main neighborhoods in Hockley?
- Hockley spans 24+ active communities, each with its own pricing and housing stock. Browse the community list above to search by neighborhood.
- How much do homes cost in Hockley?
- The current median sale price is $305,000, with 735 homes for sale right now. The figures above update live from our MLS feed.
- Is now a good time to buy or sell in Hockley?
- Hockley is currently a balanced market with about 5.6 months of inventory. The market-pulse numbers above tell the real-time story.
- Does Hockley flood?
- Some of Hockley sits in FEMA flood zones. Risk is very address-specific — two homes on the same street can differ. We show real flood-zone exposure on every listing, so you go in with eyes open.
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