A home in Porter, Texas

Community Guide

Living in Porter, Texas

Porter is the FM 1314 and Grand Parkway corner of Montgomery County, where The Highlands — a 2,300-acre master-planned community around Highland Pines Golf Club — now carries most of the inventory. Maple Heights and Northpark Woods make up much of the rest.

Get to know Porter

Welcome to Porter

New Caney ISD serves Porter. Roughly a third of the current listings are new construction, and the $300K–$500K band is the largest.

Few of the current listings fall inside a FEMA special flood hazard area. Most homes sit on conventional subdivision lots of under a quarter acre, with a handful of acreage tracts in the mix. Builder homes make up roughly a quarter to a third of the listings; the majority is resale with a median build year in the 2020s. Everything on this page is drawn live from our MLS feed and refreshed through the day.

A Porter, Texas neighborhoodA home in Porter, Texas

Why people love living here

What makes Porter, Porter

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

  • Housing Mix

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

  • Subdivisions & HOAs

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

  • Houston Access

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

  • Shopping & Dining

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

The Porter 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.

$330,500Median sale pricehomes sold, last 6 months
$163Price / sqfthomes sold, last 6 months
371Homes for saleright now
4.7Months of inventoryfor sale now vs. last 6 months of sales
Balanced market

Porter is a balanced market right now — about 4.7 months of inventory, yet roughly 49% of active sellers have already cut their price, so well-prepared buyers still have room to negotiate. The median home sells around $330,500, and the typical listing has truly been on the market about 106 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 "—".

$318,150

Median sale

homes sold, last 30 days

-2% YoY

a year ago: $326,000

60

Homes sold

last 30 days

-6% YoY

a year ago: 64

88

Avg days on mkt

homes sold, last 30 days

+13% YoY

a year ago: 78

$154

Price / sqft

homes sold, last 30 days

-1% YoY

a year ago: $156

107

New listings

last 30 days

+7% YoY

a year ago: 100

86

Went pending

last 30 days

+34% YoY

a year ago: 64

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 Porter

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.

12 of 12 schools

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Bens Branch Elementary
Brookwood Forest Elementary
Highlands Elementary
Infinity Early College High School
Pine Valley Middle School
Porter Elementary
Porter High School
Robert Crippen Elementary
Sorters Mill Elementary
Valley Ranch Elementary
White Oak Middle School
Woodridge Forest Middle School

How this works: each dot is a school in Porter (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 Porter 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

376 places mapped across Porter. Toggle a category on or off.

Amenity categories to show on the map

Amenities mapped near Porter, Texas: 143 restaurants, 36 places of worship, 33 schools, 32 grocery stores, 32 parks & trails, 30 gas stations, 19 banks, 13 coffee shops, 9 pharmacies, 6 police stations, 5 gyms & fitness, 5 post offices, 3 daycares, 3 hospitals, 3 emergency rooms, 3 veterinary, 1 libraries.

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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 Porter ZIP code.

How far to everything

The real drive from Porter

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

39min

Downtown Houston

47min

The Galleria

27min

Bush / IAH Airport

44min

Texas Medical Center

53min

Hobby Airport

Here's the real, traffic-aware drive from Porter, averaged across Porter homes (364 listings). Your exact commute depends on which part of Porter you're in and the time of day — we'll show per-home drive times when you tour.

Who lives here

The people of Porter

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

68,294

People

11 census tracts

$233,000

Median home value

owner-occupied

$1,437

Median gross rent

per month

$86,863

Median household income

per household

$39,415

Per-capita income

ACS estimate

34.9

Median age

years

2.85

Avg household size

people

25%

Bachelor's degree+

adults 25+

65%

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 Porter. Missing figures are marked "—".

Neighborhoods & communities

Porter isn't one market
it's dozens

Porter spans 22+ 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 Porter, 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).

22 of 22 communities

Auburn Trails At Oakhurst
Brooklyn Trails
Brookwood Forest
Country Colony
Cumberland
Maple Heights
Northpark South
Northpark Woods
Park At Oakhurst 05
Peppervine
Riverwalk
Riverwalk 03
Riverwalk 04
Royal Brook At Kingwood
Royal Brook/Kingwood
Royal Pines
Shadowland Retreat
Summer Hills 02
The Highlands
Timberland North
Valley Ranch
Woodridge Forest

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 Porter, residential for-sale only. 22 communities with 3+ active listings shown.

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Good to know

Porter, Texas: common questions

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

What is the housing market like in Porter?
The Porter 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 Porter?
Most of Porter 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 Porter?
Porter spans 22+ 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 Porter?
The current median sale price is $330,500, with 371 homes for sale right now. The figures above update live from our MLS feed.
Is now a good time to buy or sell in Porter?
Porter 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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