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It is a town of 4,498 residents in Texas.
Hunters Creek Village’s strongest is health: CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 98% of the country. With a B overall, Hunters Creek Village is better than 57% of U.S. towns. The ranking puts it 143rd of 640 in Texas. Add incomes to its strengths: the median household earns $250K. What holds it back is cost of living (D−): the typical home is worth about $2.0 million, 24.3 years of the Houston metro’s $82K median household income. Hunters Creek Village's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 94% of U.S. towns. 86% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in the town, against 23% in Texas’ towns and 29% across U.S. towns. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for schools and B for walkability.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · schools, state test and graduation results.
Where Hunters Creek Village’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2024
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Hunters Creek Village is from typical.
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Census counts: 2,478 in 1960, 4,385 in 2020. The archive holds 10 old photos and papers going back to 2013 and 5 maps from 1915 on.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Hunters Creek Village. Close and well known come first.
Big draw8 mi Stadium & arenaReliant Stadium
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaDaikin Park
7 mi MuseumRothko Chapel
8 mi Stadium & arenaToyota Center
9 mi Stadium & arenaShell Energy Stadium
10 mi Stadium & arenaTDECU StadiumReliant Stadium: User eschipul on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Daikin Park: Delaywaves, CC BY 3.0 · Rothko Chapel: Unknown, Public domain · Toyota Center: Ed Uthman from Houston, TX, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Shell Energy Stadium: HDFC PR, CC BY-SA 4.0 · TDECU Stadium: Brian Reading, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Hunters Creek Village, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Hunters Creek Village.
Hunters Creek Village has less food insecurity than most of Texas and has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Texas.
The public schools here belong to Spring Branch ISD. Its one school is below. Hunters Creek Village’s only public school teaches 575 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunters Creek ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 575 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with Texas is food insecurity: 4.9% of its 3,203 adults worry about having enough food, against 19.3% statewide. Against the 436 U.S. towns with household incomes like Hunters Creek Village’s, it is healthier than 55%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
Nearly a third of adults have high blood pressure in Hunters Creek Village. Only 7 of the 641 Texas towns we compare have a lower share of adults who say their health is fair or poor than Hunters Creek Village. On the CDC’s 31 measures, Hunters Creek Village is ahead of Texas on 22 and behind on 2.
| Hunters Creek Village | Typical Texas town | Typical U.S. town | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 18% | 17% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 30% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 24% | 19% |
| What stands out | Hunters Creek Village | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 4.9% | 19.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.7% | 19.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.7% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Among 642 Texas towns, just 6 have a higher typical household income than Hunters Creek Village. Most working residents leave Hunters Creek Village for work: only 3% work in town. Between 2014 and 2024, jobs in the town rose by 144, to 758. The share of residents in Hunters Creek Village who live below the poverty line is 2.8%.
| Hunters Creek Village | Typical Texas town | Typical U.S. town | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $250,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 22% | 9.6% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 2.8% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.2% | 8.1% | 7.9% |
Census LEHD 2024 · ACS
198 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 29 properties have flooded more than once.
Since 1981, 198 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Hunters Creek Village. On expected storm and flood damage, Hunters Creek Village sits above 73% of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 58% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 24% to hurricanes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
January nights average 44°, milder than in 96% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 94°.
Snow is almost unheard of. Precipitation in Hunters Creek Village totals about 53 inches in a normal year.
| Hunters Creek Village | Typical Texas town | Typical U.S. town | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 44°F | 37°F | 22°F |
| July high | 94°F | 95°F | 85°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
At 24.3 years of the Houston metro’s $82K median household income, the typical home costs more against local pay than in 99% of Texas towns; that ratio is one input to its D− for cost of living.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
19 within 15 miles of the center of Hunters Creek Village
About 5 of every 100 Hunters Creek Village residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
City in Texas, United States
Hunters Creek Village is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the Greater Houston metropolitan area. The population was 4,385 at the 2020 census. It is part of a collection of upscale residential communities in west Houston known as the Memorial Villages. As of 2022, Hunters Creek Village was the 403rd largest city in the State of Texas. As of 2000, Hunters Creek Village was the fifth wealthiest location in Texas by per capita income. A 2010 BusinessWeek study stated that Hunters Creek Village was the most expensive suburb in Texas.
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3 towns share a border with Hunters Creek Village.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunters Creek Village | #143 | B | D− | — | B− | A+ |
| Piney Point Village | #188 | B− | D− | — | B− | A+ |
| Hedwig Village | — | — | D | D | B− | A+ |
| Spring Valley Village | #95 | B+ | D | — | B− | A+ |
Hedwig Village has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Hunters Creek Village, Piney Point Village and Spring Valley Village report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Hunters Creek Village with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Hunters Creek Village grades B overall, better than 57% of U.S. towns and #143 of 640 in Texas. It grades A+ for health and B− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $2,000,000, 575% above the Texas typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.
