77406Pecan Grove, Texas

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 77406.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 27% of 6,210 published ZIP areas66
SchoolsTop 19% of 4,422 published ZIP areas76
Housing affordabilityTop 9% of 6,685 published ZIP areas100
ClimateTop 38% of 6,789 published ZIP areas73
Physical resilience4378th of 6,709 published ZIP areas45
AccessTop 21% of 6,791 published ZIP areas98
Economic stabilityTop 16% of 6,742 published ZIP areas77
The quick read

Unemployment is 5.1% and median household income $141,869, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 16% of median household income and the median home is 2.9 times it.

A major airport is 8 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
69,918
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$141,869
Top 5% nationally
Density
1,214/sq mi
57.6 sq mi of land
Median age
37.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Pecan Grove
Texas
Metro area
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
Nearest major airport
SGR
8 mi · Sugar Land Rgnl
Median home value
$406,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.1% is lower than 25% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.5% over the past year, to 460,654 employed residents.

52% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 89% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 95% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$11,144$141,869Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,596$54,550Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate6.0%Bottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute37.9 minTop 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher52.2%Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment460,654Top 13%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)4.8%Top 6%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.5%Top 40%June 2026
Labor force485,194Top 12%June 2026
Labor force participation67.3%Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$67,610Top 47%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,410Bottom 40%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.8%Top 15%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.1%Top 25%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024143k129k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $141,869 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers105,810$27,570
General and Operations Managers97,320$119,600
Retail Salespersons78,960$31,340
Stockers and Order Fillers72,970$36,890
Registered Nurses65,910$99,830
Customer Service Representatives65,510$40,380

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Pecan Grove, TX, the city containing this ZIP code.

57% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 60% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
14
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
57.3%
Top 11% in Texas
Reading proficiency
59.7%
Top 11% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
WILLIAM B TRAVIS H SFORT BEND ISD3,11418.9
FOSTER H SLAMAR CISD2,74722.0
BRISCOE JHLAMAR CISD2,00322.069%62%
JAMES BOWIE MIDDLEFORT BEND ISD1,47318.052%54%
JAMES C NEILL ELFORT BEND ISD1,25317.639%52%
JOE HUBENAK ELLAMAR CISD1,17919.057%60%
JUDGE JAMES C ADOLPHUS ELLAMAR CISD1,02517.757%67%
BENTLEY ELLAMAR CISD82317.562%62%
OAKLAND ELFORT BEND ISD81116.655%61%
FROST ELLAMAR CISD79217.671%70%
ILTEXAS RICHMOND EL · charterINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF TEXAS (ILTEXAS)70415.3
PECAN GROVE ELFORT BEND ISD63917.850%51%

36.3% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Texas’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,878 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.9 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
15.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,878
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$406,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.86Bottom 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate85.6%Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±1,25523,717Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$257$1,878Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$18,004$406,300Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income15.9%Bottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.2%Bottom 18%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 95°F and January a low of 45°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 49.7 inches.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station HOUSTON SUGARLAND MEM, 8.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation49.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low45°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high95°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing31°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

45 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and drought.

Inland floodingModerate
HurricaneElevated
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, tornado, heat wave, cold wave, strong wind, ice storm, wildfire, hail, earthquake, landslide, winter weather, coastal flooding.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Fort Bend County records 3.1 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 8.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 5.3 per 100,000 residents in Fort Bend County.

Homicide
3.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
8.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
5.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
8.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Fort Bend County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 77406 rather than 77406 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 8 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Sugar Land RgnlSGR8 mi8,000 ft
George Bush Intcntl/HoustonIAH36 mi12,001 ft
EllingtonEFD38 mi9,001 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

77406 vs Pecan Grove

How this ZIP area compares with Pecan Grove as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

77406
Pecan Grove
Median household income
$141,869
vs
$131,937
Per capita income
$54,550
vs
$55,366
Population density
1,214/sq mi
vs
2,928/sq mi
Median home value
$406,300
vs
$383,500
Median gross rent
$1,878
vs
$1,507
Homeownership rate
85.6%
vs
92.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
52.2%
vs
50.1%
Poverty rate
6.0%
vs
5.9%
Median age
37.4
vs
38.2

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.