Community Guide
Living in Prairie View, Texas
Prairie View is the Waller County home of Prairie View A&M University, founded in 1876, on US-290 between Hempstead and Waller. Listings are few and mostly in-town lots near the campus.
Get to know Prairie View
Welcome to Prairie View
Waller ISD serves the city. Inventory here is thin enough that we show every active listing instead of a median.
Lots run mostly in the quarter- to half-acre range. New construction is a substantial minority of the listings — roughly a quarter to a third — and the rest is resale, with a median build year in the 1990s. FEMA special flood hazard areas touch only a small share of the current listings. The figures on this page come straight from our own MLS feed and refresh through the day.
Why people love living here
What makes Prairie View, Prairie View
Here's what draws people to Prairie View — and keeps them here.
Housing Mix
Prairie View 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 Prairie View is tracked live from our MLS feed, alongside median sale price, days on market and months of inventory.
Subdivisions & HOAs
Where a Prairie View subdivision carries an HOA, the dues and the pools, trails or amenity centers they fund appear on each listing.
Houston Access
Drive times from Prairie View to Houston's major job centers are shown on the commute panel of this page.
Shopping & Dining
Grocery, retail and dining locations near Prairie View are plotted on the amenity map below.
Browse Prairie View listings
Homes for sale in Prairie View 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.
No homes in this view right now.
The Prairie View 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.
Prairie View is tilting toward buyers right now — about 90.0 months of inventory, yet roughly 33% of active sellers have already cut their price, so well-prepared buyers still have room to negotiate. Too few homes have sold recently to quote a median sale price, and the typical listing has truly been on the market about 101 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 "—".
0
Homes sold
last 30 days
-100% YoY
a year ago: 4
5
New listings
last 30 days
+400% YoY
a year ago: 1
0
Went pending
last 30 days
-100% YoY
a year ago: 3
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.
Explore the neighborhood
Everything that makes Prairie View 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
14 places mapped across Prairie View. Toggle a category on or off.
Amenities mapped near Prairie View, Texas: 3 places of worship, 2 parks & trails, 2 police stations, 2 post offices, 1 coffee shops, 1 gas stations, 1 grocery stores, 1 restaurants, 1 schools.
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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
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 Prairie View ZIP code.
How far to everything
The real drive from Prairie View
No sugar-coating — here's the honest, traffic-aware drive time to Houston's major job centers and airports, averaged across local homes.
56min
Downtown Houston
54min
The Galleria
60min
Bush / IAH Airport
60min
Texas Medical Center
71min
Hobby Airport
Here's the real, traffic-aware drive from Prairie View, averaged across Prairie View homes (15 listings). Your exact commute depends on which part of Prairie View you're in and the time of day — we'll show per-home drive times when you tour.
Who lives here
The people of Prairie View
A quick demographic snapshot of Prairie View, straight from the U.S. Census — population, who owns vs. rents, education, household size and more.
14,063
People
3 census tracts
$245,400
Median home value
owner-occupied
$821
Median gross rent
per month
$48,889
Median household income
per household
$29,471
Per-capita income
ACS estimate
31.9
Median age
years
3.02
Avg household size
people
25%
Bachelor's degree+
adults 25+
54%
Own their home
vs. rent
Who owns vs. rents
Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, 2023, aggregated across the 3 census tracts that make up Prairie View. Missing figures are marked "—".
Neighborhoods & communities
Prairie View isn't one market
it's dozens
Prairie View spans 2+ 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 Prairie View, 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).
2 of 2 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 Prairie View, residential for-sale only. 2 communities with 3+ active listings shown.
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Good to know
Prairie View, Texas: common questions
Straight answers to what buyers and sellers ask most about Prairie View — woven with live market data.
- What is the housing market like in Prairie View?
- The Prairie View 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 are the main neighborhoods in Prairie View?
- Prairie View spans 2+ 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 Prairie View?
- The current median sale price is —, with 15 homes for sale right now. The figures above update live from our MLS feed.
- Is now a good time to buy or sell in Prairie View?
- Prairie View is currently a buyer's market with about 90.0 months of inventory. The market-pulse numbers above tell the real-time story.
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