The Woodlands, TX population, income and ZIP codes

The Woodlands CDP is a mid-size city in Texas, with 116,916 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #33 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 98% of them. The median age here is 40.5 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 The Woodlands CDP earn a median of $141,353 a year, 80% above the national figure of $78,538 and 119% above the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 5.6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in The Woodlands CDP is valued at $479,400, 58% above the national figure and 168% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,792 a month, 27.5% above the national figure, or roughly $21,504 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.2% 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 3.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 71.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.