{"id":77412,"date":"2025-12-05T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/77412\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:40:06","slug":"affluent-houston-enclave-is-the-richest-small-town-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/77412\/","title":{"rendered":"Affluent Houston enclave is the richest small town in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

After American shoppers spent $11.5 billion<\/a> on Black Friday this year, it’s safe to say everyone is watching their wallets this holiday season, including renters. And a new Zumper report is shedding light on the Houston-area cities that are shelling out the most for their rent. <\/p>\n

The report<\/a> analyzed active listings from the previous month across all cities in the Houston metro. It tracked the most and least expensive rent prices for one- and two-bedroom apartments, and determines the cities with the fastest growing rents. Listings were aggregated by city to calculate median asking rents.<\/p>\n

Sugar Land had the highest rent prices in the Houston area in November, the report found. The median rent price for a single-bedroom apartment came out to $1,480 last month. That’s $30 higher<\/a> than the median asking rent for the same apartment in June.<\/p>\n

For two-bedroom units, median rent prices in Sugar Land rose 4.3 percent from October to $1,940.<\/p>\n

Pearland had the second-highest rents in the metro last month. Single-bedroom units had a median asking price of $1,370 per month, while two-bedroom units had a $1,700 price tag in November.<\/p>\n

Residents in both Pearland and Sugar Land are expected to spend more than $3,100<\/a> on their holiday presents this year, a recent WalletHub study revealed, which means they may be keeping a closer eye on their budgets than other Houston-area residents.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Houston proper had the third-priciest asking rents in the entire metro area in November. Median asking rent for a one-bedroom unit totaled $1,210 in November, and two-bedroom units had a $1,480 price tag.<\/p>\n

These are the median rent prices for one- and two-bedroom apartments around Houston:<\/p>\n

League City \u2013 $1,180 for one-bedroom units; $1,410 for two-bedroom unitsSpring \u2013 $1,170 for one-bedroom units; $1,530 for two-bedroom units<\/p>\n

Houston-area cities with affordable rent compared to the statewide median
Zumper found the statewide median rent for a one bedroom apartment came out to $1,126 last month.<\/p>\n

Huntsville, a city 70 miles north of Houston, had the most affordable rent for a one-bedroom unit in the region, with median prices adding up to $880. The report also found that Huntsville’s single-bedroom rent costs are surprisingly 6 percent more expensive than they were a year ago. However, the median cost for a two-bedroom unit in Huntsville \u2013 $1,000 \u2013 is the same asking price as it was in November 2024.<\/p>\n

Six more Houston-area cities had more affordable single-bedroom rent prices than the statewide median:<\/p>\n

Galveston \u2013 $1,110Conroe \u2013 $1,100Baytown \u2013 $1,000Lake Jackson \u2013 $920Pasadena \u2013 $910Texas City \u2013 $890<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After American shoppers spent $11.5 billion on Black Friday this year, it’s safe to say everyone is watching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38096,6863,56,58,57,425],"class_list":["post-77412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-affluent-households","tag-bellaire","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-suburbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}