Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 4,546, settled in 1967.
Meadows Place grades C overall, ranked 283rd of 640 in Texas, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 76% of the country. On the other side, FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 91% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. On history, just 23 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. Meadows Place’s January low is 44°F, above both Texas’ towns (37°F) and U.S. towns (22°F). Meadows Place's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 88% of U.S. towns.
Where Meadows Place beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Where Meadows Place’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Meadows Place is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 4,606 in 1990, 4,767 in 2020. The archive holds 9 old photos and papers going back to 2022 and 5 maps from 1915 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Meadows Place. Close and well known come first.
Big draw11 mi Stadium & arenaReliant Stadium
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaDaikin Park
13 mi MuseumRothko Chapel
15 mi Stadium & arenaToyota Center
16 mi Stadium & arenaShell Energy Stadium
15 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 Meadows Place, 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 Meadows Place.
Meadows Place has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and has less no health insurance than most of Texas, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Texas (mostly inland flooding).
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 100% of Texas towns, with expected losses of about $552 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on.
Only 3 of the 642 Texas towns we compare have a higher FEMA risk score than Meadows Place. Since 1983, 36 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Meadows Place.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its public schools are run by Fort Bend ISD. One of its 2 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadows ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 425 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with Texas is no health insurance: 11.7% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 19.1% statewide.
18% of Meadows Place adults have been diagnosed with depression. Meadows Place beats the Texas average on 14 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 29% of Meadows Place adults have obesity.
| Meadows Place | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 18% | 17% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 37% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 22% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9.3% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Meadows Place | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 11.7% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 7% | 10.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.1% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most working residents leave Meadows Place for work: only 1% work in town. The average trip to work in Meadows Place is 22 minutes. The top destinations are Houston (51%), Sugar Land (11%) and Stafford (4%).
| Meadows Place | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 1.3% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $90,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 12% | 9.6% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Meadows Place’s property crime rate is 20.7 per 1,000 residents.
| Meadows Place | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 20.7 per 1,000 residents | 10.7 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.3 per 1,000 residents | 1.9 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
January nights average 43.9°, milder than in 96% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 93.6°.
Meadows Place has warm winters and hot summers, with plenty of rain. Snow is almost unheard of.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
| Meadows Place | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.7 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.3% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Mark McGrath Municipal Park | 0.6 mi | 19 |
| 2. Texas Direct Auto Dog Park | — | 2 |
| 3. Jim McDonald Park | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The typical Meadows Place home is worth about $288,000, down 2.3% in a year, close to the Texas typical home.
| Meadows Place | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,600 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 75% | 69% | 73% |
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
15 within 15 miles of the center of Meadows Place
About 5 of every 100 Meadows Place residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
City in Texas
Meadows Place is a city located in Fort Bend County in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, Meadows Place had a population of 4,767. Meadows Place was part of Stafford's extraterritorial jurisdiction prior to incorporation on November 14, 1983. Meadows Place was incorporated as Meadows, but this was changed to "Meadows Place" in 1997 due to postal conflicts with a city of a similar name, Meadow, Texas.
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2 towns share a border with Meadows Place.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meadows Place | #283 | C | C− | C | B+ | A− |
| Stafford | #353 | C− | C | D | C+ | B |
| Houston | #606 | D− | C− | D− | C− | C+ |
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Meadows Place grades C overall, better than 34% of U.S. towns and #283 of 640 in Texas. It grades A− for health, C for safety and B+ for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. That is 3.5 years of the area's median household income ($82,168 across the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
