New Caney, Texas.
, asking rent $1,834 (-2.6%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Asking rents in New Caney, TX fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Living in New Caney, Montgomery County, Texas
The Census does not count New Caney on its own, so the figures here are Montgomery County's. Half the county's households earn more than $97,701 a year and half less; 9% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Caney is a small town in Montgomery County, in the Houston region of Texas. Winters are at their coldest in January, but snow is rare, and rain falls often across the year. Summers are at their hottest in August, so the seasons are shaped more by heat and rain than by cold and snow. Across Montgomery County, most homes are lived in by their owners.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services. Shops and the building trades also employ many people here. Jobs across the county grew over the most recent year, and unemployment is a little higher than it was a year before. Most people drive to work, though some work from home.
Things to do. Grand Texas Theme Park is an amusement park in or beside town. Lake Houston Wilderness Park is a park in or beside town, a good place for walking outdoors. Caney Creek is a river a short drive away.
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- 247,541households
- 37.2median age
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 235,441 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cleveland weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Conroe ISDSchool district9,418FTE
- Lone Star College SystemUniversity or college6,772
- New Caney ISDSchool district2,715FTE
- HCA Houston Healthcare KingwoodGeneral hospital2,453FTE
- W W WebberRoad construction2,453
- 00W001 Insperity ServicesProfessional employer organizations2,226
- Houston Methodist the WoodlandsGeneral hospital1,881FTE
- Magnolia ISDSchool district1,868FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 387 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 64,763 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Montgomery County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Montgomery County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
New Caney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 New Caney listings, and the typical home goes pending in 53 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- New Caney29.15%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- New Caney53
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- New Caney235
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- New Caney39
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- New Caney97.84%
Zip codes with a New Caney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Caney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.