A home in New Caney, Texas

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Living in New Caney, Texas

New Caney is the US-59/I-69 and Grand Parkway interchange in eastern Montgomery County, with Valley Ranch Town Center at its center and Tavola, The Trails and Harrington Trails supplying the listings. Nearly half of the current inventory is new construction.

Get to know New Caney

Welcome to New Caney

New Caney ISD serves the area. Most listings sit on subdivision lots, and the largest price band is below $300K.

Most homes sit on conventional subdivision lots of under a quarter acre, with a handful of acreage tracts in the mix. New construction and resale split the current listings roughly down the middle. Few of the current listings fall inside a FEMA special flood hazard area. Everything on this page is drawn live from our MLS feed and refreshed through the day.

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Why people love living here

What makes New Caney, New Caney

Here's what draws people to New Caney — and keeps them here.

  • Housing Mix

    New Caney 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 New Caney is tracked live from our MLS feed, alongside median sale price, days on market and months of inventory.

  • Subdivisions & HOAs

    Where a New Caney subdivision carries an HOA, the dues and the pools, trails or amenity centers they fund appear on each listing.

  • Houston Access

    Drive times from New Caney to Houston's major job centers are shown on the commute panel of this page.

  • Shopping & Dining

    Grocery, retail and dining locations near New Caney are plotted on the amenity map below.

The New Caney 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.

$270,740Median sale pricehomes sold, last 6 months
$150Price / sqfthomes sold, last 6 months
376Homes for saleright now
4.7Months of inventoryfor sale now vs. last 6 months of sales
Balanced market

New Caney is a balanced market right now — about 4.7 months of inventory, yet roughly 52% of active sellers have already cut their price, so well-prepared buyers still have room to negotiate. The median home sells around $270,740, and the typical listing has truly been on the market about 92 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 "—".

$269,990

Median sale

homes sold, last 30 days

+2% YoY

a year ago: $264,390

59

Homes sold

last 30 days

-37% YoY

a year ago: 94

85

Avg days on mkt

homes sold, last 30 days

+8% YoY

a year ago: 79

$150

Price / sqft

homes sold, last 30 days

+1% YoY

a year ago: $149

95

New listings

last 30 days

-36% YoY

a year ago: 149

78

Went pending

last 30 days

-21% YoY

a year ago: 99

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.

New Caney ISD · area schools

Schools in New Caney

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.

10 of 10 schools

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Dogwood Elementary
Highlands Middle School
Keefer Crossing Middle School
New Caney Elementary
New Caney High School
Oakley Elementary
Project Restore
Tavola Elementary
The Learning Ctr
Timber Lakes Elementary

How this works: each dot is a school in New Caney (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 New Caney 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

231 places mapped across New Caney. Toggle a category on or off.

Amenity categories to show on the map

Amenities mapped near New Caney, Texas: 72 restaurants, 34 schools, 27 gas stations, 27 places of worship, 22 grocery stores, 21 parks & trails, 9 police stations, 6 banks, 5 coffee shops, 3 post offices, 2 gyms & fitness, 2 pharmacies, 1 libraries.

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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.

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The honest picture

We surface the real federal flood-claim history for any area you're considering — context, not scare tactics. Risk is very address-specific, and we walk through each home's exact exposure with you before you ever make an offer.

Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program claims, by New Caney ZIP code.

How far to everything

The real drive from New Caney

No sugar-coating — here's the honest, traffic-aware drive time to Houston's major job centers and airports, averaged across local homes.

44min

Downtown Houston

52min

The Galleria

32min

Bush / IAH Airport

49min

Texas Medical Center

58min

Hobby Airport

Here's the real, traffic-aware drive from New Caney, averaged across New Caney homes (372 listings). Your exact commute depends on which part of New Caney you're in and the time of day — we'll show per-home drive times when you tour.

Who lives here

The people of New Caney

A quick demographic snapshot of New Caney, straight from the U.S. Census — population, who owns vs. rents, education, household size and more.

75,606

People

11 census tracts

$212,600

Median home value

owner-occupied

$1,337

Median gross rent

per month

$76,250

Median household income

per household

$28,307

Per-capita income

ACS estimate

31.6

Median age

years

3.27

Avg household size

people

14%

Bachelor's degree+

adults 25+

80%

Own their home

vs. rent

Who owns vs. rents

Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, 2023, aggregated across the 11 census tracts that make up New Caney. Missing figures are marked "—".

Neighborhoods & communities

New Caney isn't one market
it's dozens

New Caney spans 18+ 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 New Caney, 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).

18 of 18 communities

Abst-A18a
Abst-A38
Harrington Trails
Kings Colony 02
Landing Meadows
Northcrest Ranch 02
Pinewood At Grand Texas
Porters Mill
Roman Forest
Roman Forest 01
Roman Forest 02
Roman Forest 04
Tavola
Tavola West
The Landing
The Trails
Timbers Edge
Trails

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 New Caney, residential for-sale only. 18 communities with 3+ active listings shown.

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Good to know

New Caney, Texas: common questions

Straight answers to what buyers and sellers ask most about New Caney — woven with live market data.

What is the housing market like in New Caney?
The New Caney 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 New Caney?
Most of New Caney is served by New Caney 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 New Caney?
New Caney spans 18+ 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 New Caney?
The current median sale price is $270,740, with 376 homes for sale right now. The figures above update live from our MLS feed.
Is now a good time to buy or sell in New Caney?
New Caney is currently a balanced market with about 4.7 months of inventory. The market-pulse numbers above tell the real-time story.

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