The median tracked Houston ZIP has a typical home value of $249,757. That is a typical-value index, not a sale-price median — the two differ, which is why published figures for Houston rarely match. The median tracked ZIP in Houston has a typical home value of $249,757 and typical rent of $1,551 per month. Across tracked ZIPs the typical home value runs from $129,187 in 77054 to $1,722,665 in 77005 — a factor of 13.3. The median tracked ZIP has a home-value-to-annual-rent ratio of 13.4.
Key stats
- The median tracked ZIP in Houston has a typical home value of $249,757 and typical rent of $1,551 per month.
- Across tracked ZIPs the typical home value runs from $129,187 in 77054 to $1,722,665 in 77005 — a factor of 13.3.
- The median tracked ZIP has a home-value-to-annual-rent ratio of 13.4.
- 29 of 97 tracked ZIPs (30%) show the current cooling flag.
- The metro income-needed indicator changed -0.48% year over year.
- Tracked ZIP markets
- 97
- Median ZIP home value
- $249,757
- Median ZIP rent
- $1,551
- housing cost spread
- Across tracked ZIPs the typical home value runs from $129,187 in 77054 to $1,722,665 in 77005 — a factor of 13.3.
- metro price to rent
- The median tracked ZIP has a home-value-to-annual-rent ratio of 13.4.
- cooling share
- 29 of 97 tracked ZIPs (30%) show the current cooling flag.
What a house costs in Houston
The median tracked Houston ZIP has a typical home value of $249,757. That is a typical-value index, not a sale-price median — the two differ, which is why published figures for Houston rarely match.
What the figure hides
Across tracked ZIPs the typical home value runs from $129,187 in 77054 to $1,722,665 in 77005 — a factor of 13.3.
A budget does not shop the metro; it shops the ZIPs it reaches. The range above is the one that matters when the citywide figure and the listings you can see do not agree.
Sources and method
- HomeMarketCap.com data sources: ZIP and metro housing-market datasets
- HomeMarketCap.com methodology: calculation and missing-data rules
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