Community Guide
Living in Sugar Land, Texas
Sugar Land grew from the Imperial Sugar company town into the largest city in Fort Bend County, along US-59/I-69 and SH 6. Greatwood, Telfair and Townewest lead its listings, and the median home here is among the largest of the Fort Bend cities we cover.
Get to know Sugar Land
Welcome to Sugar Land
Fort Bend ISD serves most of the city. This is a resale market — new construction is a small share — and the median listing dates from the late 1990s.
This is a resale market: new construction is rare, and the median home for sale dates from the 1990s. FEMA special flood hazard areas touch only a small share of the current listings. Lots are conventional subdivision size, mostly under a quarter acre, so price is driven by the house rather than the land. The numbers below update from our own MLS feed, so they reflect the market as it stands today.
Why people love living here
What makes Sugar Land, Sugar Land
Here's what draws people to Sugar Land — and keeps them here.
Housing Mix
Sugar Land 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 Sugar Land is tracked live from our MLS feed, alongside median sale price, days on market and months of inventory.
Subdivisions & HOAs
Where a Sugar Land subdivision carries an HOA, the dues and the pools, trails or amenity centers they fund appear on each listing.
Houston Access
Drive times from Sugar Land to Houston's major job centers are shown on the commute panel of this page.
Shopping & Dining
Grocery, retail and dining locations near Sugar Land are plotted on the amenity map below.
Browse Sugar Land listings
Homes for sale in Sugar Land 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
7 homes
Showing 7 of 7
$262,000
16722 Ribbonridge Drive
MLS #50281309
$189,000
4144 Greystone Way
MLS #25159244
$337,000
16439 Hidden Gate Court
MLS #67756271
$1,799,990
7 Haven Shore Lane
MLS #73158781
$575,000
402 Lakeside Boulevard
MLS #11981480
$775,000
119 Grace Point Drive
MLS #90635225
$585,000
3007 Bainbridge Court
MLS #85107821
That’s every home in this view — 7 of 7.
The Sugar Land 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.
Sugar Land is a balanced market right now — about 5.1 months of inventory, yet roughly 41% of active sellers have already cut their price, so well-prepared buyers still have room to negotiate. The median home sells around $455,000, and the typical listing has truly been on the market about 113 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 "—".
$390,000
Median sale
homes sold, last 30 days
-8% YoY
a year ago: $422,500
101
Homes sold
last 30 days
-11% YoY
a year ago: 114
92
Avg days on mkt
homes sold, last 30 days
+7% YoY
a year ago: 86
$170
Price / sqft
homes sold, last 30 days
+2% YoY
a year ago: $167
190
New listings
last 30 days
-11% YoY
a year ago: 214
102
Went pending
last 30 days
+5% YoY
a year ago: 97
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.
Fort Bend ISD · area schools
Schools in Sugar Land
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.
34 of 34 schools
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How this works: each dot is a school in Sugar Land (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 Sugar Land 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
1,250 places mapped across Sugar Land. Toggle a category on or off.
Amenities mapped near Sugar Land, Texas: 395 restaurants, 186 places of worship, 134 schools, 102 grocery stores, 99 gas stations, 99 parks & trails, 55 banks, 53 coffee shops, 27 gyms & fitness, 24 pharmacies, 14 veterinary, 13 hospitals, 13 emergency rooms, 10 police stations, 9 daycares, 8 libraries, 6 post offices, 2 urgent care, 1 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
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 Sugar Land ZIP code.
How far to everything
The real drive from Sugar Land
No sugar-coating — here's the honest, traffic-aware drive time to Houston's major job centers and airports, averaged across local homes.
34min
Downtown Houston
26min
The Galleria
56min
Bush / IAH Airport
31min
Texas Medical Center
41min
Hobby Airport
Here's the real, traffic-aware drive from Sugar Land, averaged across Sugar Land homes (580 listings). Your exact commute depends on which part of Sugar Land you're in and the time of day — we'll show per-home drive times when you tour.
Who lives here
The people of Sugar Land
A quick demographic snapshot of Sugar Land, straight from the U.S. Census — population, who owns vs. rents, education, household size and more.
199,824
People
40 census tracts
$357,150
Median home value
owner-occupied
$1,971
Median gross rent
per month
$118,125
Median household income
per household
$48,886
Per-capita income
ACS estimate
39.7
Median age
years
3.09
Avg household size
people
57%
Bachelor's degree+
adults 25+
78%
Own their home
vs. rent
Who owns vs. rents
Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, 2023, aggregated across the 40 census tracts that make up Sugar Land. Missing figures are marked "—".
Neighborhoods & communities
Sugar Land isn't one market
it's dozens
Sugar Land spans 63+ 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 Sugar Land, 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).
63 of 63 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 Sugar Land, residential for-sale only. 63 communities with 3+ active listings shown.
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- Texas Premier Realty · TREC #0658294
- 104 homes closed · $44M in sales
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Good to know
Sugar Land, Texas: common questions
Straight answers to what buyers and sellers ask most about Sugar Land — woven with live market data.
- What is the housing market like in Sugar Land?
- The Sugar Land 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 Sugar Land?
- Most of Sugar Land is served by Fort Bend 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 Sugar Land?
- Sugar Land spans 63+ 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 Sugar Land?
- The current median sale price is $455,000, with 625 homes for sale right now. The figures above update live from our MLS feed.
- Is now a good time to buy or sell in Sugar Land?
- Sugar Land is currently a balanced market with about 5.1 months of inventory. The market-pulse numbers above tell the real-time story.
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