Sugar Land, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Sugar Land city is a mid-size city in Texas, with 109,735 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #37 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 98% of them. The median age here is 42.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Sugar Land city earn a median of $137,511 a year, 75.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and 113% above the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 5.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sugar Land city is valued at $406,600, 34% above the national figure and 127% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,939 a month, 37.9% above the national figure, or roughly $23,268 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 80.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.