Weston LakesTX
A town of 4,570.
Is Weston Lakes a good place to live?
Weston Lakes's standout: the median household earns $145K. Overall it grades B−, 165th among Texas's 640 graded towns. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 90% of the country and its schools outperform 77% of the state's. Its weakest subject is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $674K, 8.2 years of the Houston metro’s $82K median household income. Weston Lakes’ average trip to work is 38 minutes, above both Texas’ towns (25 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 95% of U.S. towns. On hazard risk, just 79 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse.
Weston Lakes has grown 84% since 2010
2,482 counted in 2010 and 3,853 in 2020; an estimated 4,570 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 18.7% since 2020, after 55.2% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Weston Lakes grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Weston Lakes is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for jobs and income (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D− for cost of living (better than 4%), so the B− overall blends very different results.
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Moving to Weston Lakes: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Weston Lakes, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Weston Lakes.
Weston Lakes has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Texas (mostly inland flooding) and has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Texas.
Compared with most of Texas and the rest of the country, fewer of Weston Lakes’ adults worry about having enough food
Against the 3,095 U.S. towns with household incomes like Weston Lakes’s, it is healthier than 58%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
6% of Weston Lakes adults worry about having enough food. Weston Lakes beats the Texas average on 19 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 13% of Weston Lakes adults report frequent mental distress.
| Weston Lakes | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 18% | 17% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 39% | 36% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 6% | 20% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.6% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Weston Lakes | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6% | 19.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.9% | 19.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.1% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Weston Lakes has set aside 0.1% of its land for conservation
Just 2 of its 1,749 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Weston Lakes itself; its outdoors grade is D.
1.5 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves.
| Weston Lakes | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.1% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
About half of Weston Lakes’ working residents commute to Houston
Weston Lakes has 187 jobs for its 1,814 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 38 minutes, against 26.7 across Texas.
Most working residents leave Weston Lakes for work: only 1% work in town. 4.6% of residents live below the poverty line in Weston Lakes. The top destinations are Houston (48%), Rosenberg (5%) and Katy (5%).
| Weston Lakes | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $145,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 4.6% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.8% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Weston Lakes faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 92% of Texas towns; that rating is what its C− for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Weston Lakes is 78 of 100. Since 1991, 35 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Weston Lakes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Mild winters and hot summers in Weston Lakes
January nights average 43°, milder than in 96% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 94.5°.
Weston Lakes has warm winters and hot summers, with plenty of rain. Weston Lakes’ January low is 43°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Weston Lakes | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 43°F | 37°F | 22°F |
| July high | 95°F | 95°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
More of Weston Lakes’ households own their home than in the typical Texas or U.S. town
At 8.2 years of the Houston metro’s $82K median household income, the typical home costs more against local pay than in 96% of Texas towns; that ratio is one input to its D− for cost of living.
Only 3 of the 642 Texas towns we compare have a higher share of households owning their home than Weston Lakes. The median sale price was $870,000 in May 2026.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Weston Lakes
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Weston Lakes; the nearest are
About 4 of every 100 Weston Lakes residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
99% of working residents leave Weston Lakes for work
Where Weston Lakes’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Questions about Weston Lakes
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Weston Lakes, TX a good place to live?
Weston Lakes grades B− overall, better than 53% of U.S. towns and #165 of 640 in Texas. It grades A for health and A− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Weston Lakes, TX expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $674,000, 127% 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−.