Community Guide
Living in The Woodlands, Texas
The Woodlands is the master-planned community George Mitchell opened in 1974 along I-45, organized into villages such as Sterling Ridge, Alden Bridge and Creekside Park. It carries one of the highest median sale prices on this site, and condos and townhomes make up a larger share here than in the rest of Montgomery County.
Get to know The Woodlands
Welcome to The Woodlands
Conroe ISD serves most of The Woodlands, with Tomball ISD in Creekside Park. New construction is rare; the housing stock dates mainly from the 1990s and 2000s.
Builder inventory is scarce here — the median listing dates from the 2000s, so most sales are resale. Townhomes and condos account for a noticeable share of what is listed, unusual for the outer metro. Few of the current listings fall inside a FEMA special flood hazard area. Nearly every listing sits on a standard subdivision lot of under a quarter acre. Everything on this page is drawn live from our MLS feed and refreshed through the day.
Why people love living here
What makes The Woodlands, The Woodlands
Here's what draws people to The Woodlands — and keeps them here.
Housing Mix
The Woodlands 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 The Woodlands is tracked live from our MLS feed, alongside median sale price, days on market and months of inventory.
Subdivisions & HOAs
Where a The Woodlands subdivision carries an HOA, the dues and the pools, trails or amenity centers they fund appear on each listing.
Houston Access
Drive times from The Woodlands to Houston's major job centers are shown on the commute panel of this page.
Shopping & Dining
Grocery, retail and dining locations near The Woodlands are plotted on the amenity map below.
Browse The Woodlands listings
Homes for sale in The Woodlands 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
5 homes
Showing 5 of 5
$9,100,000
62 Hallbrook Way
MLS #33508727
$2,895,000
7 Pastoral Pond Circle
MLS #27860456
$2,340,000
10 KINGSCOTE WAY
MLS #62444382
$324,900
86 N Valley Oaks Circle
MLS #13600817
$3,600,000
35 W Isle Place
MLS #59402722
That’s every home in this view — 5 of 5.
The The Woodlands 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.
The Woodlands is a seller-leaning market right now — about 3.1 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 $620,000, and the typical listing has truly been on the market about 86 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 "—".
$590,000
Median sale
homes sold, last 30 days
+9% YoY
a year ago: $540,000
74
Homes sold
last 30 days
-31% YoY
a year ago: 108
60
Avg days on mkt
homes sold, last 30 days
+11% YoY
a year ago: 54
$222
Price / sqft
homes sold, last 30 days
0% YoY
a year ago: $221
144
New listings
last 30 days
-18% YoY
a year ago: 175
73
Went pending
last 30 days
-19% YoY
a year ago: 90
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.
Conroe ISD · area schools
Schools in The Woodlands
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.
23 of 23 schools
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Show / hide TEA ratings
How this works: each dot is a school in The Woodlands (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 The Woodlands 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
854 places mapped across The Woodlands. Toggle a category on or off.
Amenities mapped near The Woodlands, Texas: 294 restaurants, 127 parks & trails, 74 places of worship, 62 gas stations, 61 grocery stores, 57 schools, 46 banks, 30 coffee shops, 22 pharmacies, 19 gyms & fitness, 12 veterinary, 10 police stations, 9 hospitals, 9 emergency rooms, 9 post offices, 7 daycares, 3 dog parks, 3 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.
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 The Woodlands ZIP code.
How far to everything
The real drive from The Woodlands
No sugar-coating — here's the honest, traffic-aware drive time to Houston's major job centers and airports, averaged across local homes.
46min
Downtown Houston
50min
The Galleria
38min
Bush / IAH Airport
52min
Texas Medical Center
61min
Hobby Airport
Here's the real, traffic-aware drive from The Woodlands, averaged across The Woodlands homes (372 listings). Your exact commute depends on which part of The Woodlands you're in and the time of day — we'll show per-home drive times when you tour.
Who lives here
The people of The Woodlands
A quick demographic snapshot of The Woodlands, straight from the U.S. Census — population, who owns vs. rents, education, household size and more.
152,623
People
28 census tracts
$434,950
Median home value
owner-occupied
$1,768
Median gross rent
per month
$136,190
Median household income
per household
$63,280
Per-capita income
ACS estimate
39.9
Median age
years
2.66
Avg household size
people
62%
Bachelor's degree+
adults 25+
63%
Own their home
vs. rent
Who owns vs. rents
Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, 2023, aggregated across the 28 census tracts that make up The Woodlands. Missing figures are marked "—".
Neighborhoods & communities
The Woodlands isn't one market
it's dozens
The Woodlands spans 35+ 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 The Woodlands, 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).
35 of 35 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 The Woodlands, residential for-sale only. 35 communities with 3+ active listings shown.
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Good to know
The Woodlands, Texas: common questions
Straight answers to what buyers and sellers ask most about The Woodlands — woven with live market data.
- What is the housing market like in The Woodlands?
- The The Woodlands 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 The Woodlands?
- Most of The Woodlands is served by Conroe 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 The Woodlands?
- The Woodlands spans 35+ 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 The Woodlands?
- The current median sale price is $620,000, with 406 homes for sale right now. The figures above update live from our MLS feed.
- Is now a good time to buy or sell in The Woodlands?
- The Woodlands is currently a seller's market with about 3.1 months of inventory. The market-pulse numbers above tell the real-time story.
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