77385The Woodlands, Texas

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 77385.

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How this area ranks
SchoolsTop 22% of 4,422 published ZIP areas74
Housing affordabilityTop 13% of 6,685 published ZIP areas99
ClimateTop 34% of 6,789 published ZIP areas74
Physical resilienceTop 49% of 6,709 published ZIP areas59
AccessTop 47% of 6,791 published ZIP areas94
Economic stabilityTop 14% of 6,742 published ZIP areas78
The quick read

In the public schools here, 54% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.4 students for every teacher.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 19% of median household income and the median home is 2.8 times it.

A major airport is 15 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
28,156
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$117,118
Top 11% nationally
Density
1,297/sq mi
21.7 sq mi of land
Median age
34.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
The Woodlands
Texas
Metro area
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
Nearest major airport
IAH
15 mi · George Bush Intcntl/Houston
Median home value
$327,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

42% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 81% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 89% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$11,527$117,118Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,529$48,318Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate6.4%Bottom 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute34.3 minTop 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher41.9%Top 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation71.3%Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$67,610Top 47%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,410Bottom 40%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024117k96k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $117,118 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.

54% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 49% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.4 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
53.7%
Top 17% in Texas
Reading proficiency
48.6%
Top 27% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
OAK RIDGE H SCONROE ISD2,75816.3
SUCHMA ELCONROE ISD1,42816.652%50%
IRONS J HCONROE ISD1,24215.062%52%
OAK RIDGE ELCONROE ISD60813.549%42%
HOUSER ELCONROE ISD58812.345%45%

47.3% 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 $1,820 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.8 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
18.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,820
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$327,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.79Bottom 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate75.3%Bottom 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±58010,266Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$104$1,820Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$17,491$327,100Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.6%Top 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.8%Bottom 27%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 94°F and January a low of 43°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 50.8 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 55, in the Moderate band, and about 21 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station HOUSTON HOOKS MEM AP, 11.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index86.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation50.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low43°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high94°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 100212024 calendar year
Median air quality index55.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing32°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
55
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
86
90th percentile index
Days above 100
21
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

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. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

59 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Inland floodingModerate
HurricaneElevated
Winter weatherModerate
DroughtModerate

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

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.

Montgomery 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 14.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.0 per 100,000 residents in Montgomery County.

Homicide
3.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
10.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
19.4
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 Montgomery 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 77385 rather than 77385 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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 15 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
George Bush Intcntl/HoustonIAH15 mi12,001 ft
Sugar Land RgnlSGR41 mi8,000 ft
EllingtonEFD43 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)
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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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.

77385 vs The Woodlands

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

77385
The Woodlands
Median household income
$117,118
vs
$140,701
Per capita income
$48,318
vs
$73,538
Population density
1,297/sq mi
vs
2,796/sq mi
Median home value
$327,100
vs
$511,700
Median gross rent
$1,820
vs
$1,822
Homeownership rate
75.3%
vs
72.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
41.9%
vs
66.1%
Poverty rate
6.4%
vs
5.6%
Median age
34.8
vs
40.6

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.