Community Guide
Living in Richards, Texas
Richards is a small Grimes County community on FM 149 between Anderson and Montgomery, with its own one-campus district, Richards ISD. Every current listing is acreage.
Get to know Richards
Welcome to Richards
Homes here are sold with land — pasture, timber or both — and a sale may be the only one in the area for months. We show each listing rather than a median.
Richards is a thin market — listings arrive a few at a time, so we show every one rather than quoting medians that a single sale would swing. What follows is live: our MLS feed refreshes the figures on this page hourly.
Why people love living here
What makes Richards, Richards
Here's what draws people to Richards — and keeps them here.
Housing Mix
Richards 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 Richards is tracked live from our MLS feed, alongside median sale price, days on market and months of inventory.
Subdivisions & HOAs
Where a Richards subdivision carries an HOA, the dues and the pools, trails or amenity centers they fund appear on each listing.
Houston Access
Drive times from Richards to Houston's major job centers are shown on the commute panel of this page.
Shopping & Dining
Grocery, retail and dining locations near Richards are plotted on the amenity map below.
Browse Richards listings
Homes for sale in Richards 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 Richards 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.
Richards is a seller-leaning market right now — about 2.4 months of inventory, yet roughly 50% of active sellers have already cut their price, so well-prepared buyers still have room to negotiate. The median home sells around $505,000, and the typical listing has truly been on the market about 74 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: 1
0
New listings
last 30 days
-100% YoY
a year ago: 2
0
Went pending
last 30 days
—
a year ago: 0
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.
Richards ISD · area schools
Schools in Richards
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.
1 of 1 schools
How this works: each dot is a school in Richards (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.
How far to everything
The real drive from Richards
No sugar-coating — here's the honest, traffic-aware drive time to Houston's major job centers and airports, averaged across local homes.
83min
Downtown Houston
81min
The Galleria
79min
Bush / IAH Airport
87min
Texas Medical Center
96min
Hobby Airport
Here's the real, traffic-aware drive from Richards, averaged across Richards homes (2 listings). Your exact commute depends on which part of Richards you're in and the time of day — we'll show per-home drive times when you tour.
Who lives here
The people of Richards
A quick demographic snapshot of Richards, straight from the U.S. Census — population, who owns vs. rents, education, household size and more.
6,578
People
2 census tracts
$289,700
Median home value
owner-occupied
$1,277
Median gross rent
per month
$90,957
Median household income
per household
$41,969
Per-capita income
ACS estimate
44.2
Median age
years
2.51
Avg household size
people
34%
Bachelor's degree+
adults 25+
93%
Own their home
vs. rent
Who owns vs. rents
Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, 2023, aggregated across the 2 census tracts that make up Richards. Missing figures are marked "—".
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Good to know
Richards, Texas: common questions
Straight answers to what buyers and sellers ask most about Richards — woven with live market data.
- What is the housing market like in Richards?
- The Richards 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 Richards?
- Most of Richards is served by Richards ISD. Zoning is address-specific, so confirm the campuses for the exact home — the school table above is live from the MLS.
- How much do homes cost in Richards?
- The current median sale price is $505,000, with 2 homes for sale right now. The figures above update live from our MLS feed.
- Is now a good time to buy or sell in Richards?
- Richards is currently a strong seller's market with about 2.4 months of inventory. The market-pulse numbers above tell the real-time story.
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