Meadows Place, Texas.
Typical home $288,341 (-2.3% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$721 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,800 -2%
- $295,141$288,341 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,081 +16%
- $249,260$288,341 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Meadows Place$1,513
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Meadows Place, TX fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Meadows Place, Fort Bend County, Texas
Meadows Place is a city of 4,767 people in Fort Bend County. Half its households earn more than $90,057 a year and half less, against $114,041 across Fort Bend County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Fort Bend County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Meadows Place is a small city in Fort Bend County, in the Houston area, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home value sits in the middle range for the region. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and daytime highs that stay comfortable. Summers are hot, with July the warmest, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. A good number of adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a moderate one, with some people working from home. Across Fort Bend County, the largest workplaces include Katy ISD, Fort Bend ISD and Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For a day out, the Houston Zoo is a longer drive away, as is the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Art lovers can head to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, also a longer drive away. Sports fans have Daikin Park, a stadium that is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 1,831households
- 45%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fort Bend County had 260,929 jobs in 2025, 3.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 45°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 76°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston Sugarland Mem weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fort Bend County
- Katy ISDSchool district12,969FTE
- Fort Bend ISDSchool district10,195FTE
- Lamar CisdSchool district4,802FTE
- IES ResidentialElectrical contractors3,374
- Methodist Sugar Land HospitalGeneral hospital2,455FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,434
- Memorial Hermann KatyGeneral hospital1,505FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,309
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 369 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 64,622 people in all across the county; Meadows Place has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Meadows Place’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Fort Bend County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Meadows Place home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Meadows Place$288,341
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Meadows Place listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Meadows Place40.28%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Meadows Place23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Meadows Place7
Zip codes with a Meadows Place address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Meadows Place — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.