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Energy Corridor vs Pearland

Greater Houston, TX: ACS figures, FEMA flood zone, and commute for both

Should you live in Energy Corridor or Pearland? Energy Corridor and Pearland are both communities in the Greater Houston metro area. They sit about 23 straight-line miles apart, a sample-point floor that converts to an estimated 52-65 minute drive. Energy Corridor is $456,785 against $330,900 for Pearland. The two home-value figures are not directly comparable, so no percentage gap is claimed: Energy Corridor's is a population-weighted average of ZCTA medians (ZIP/ZCTA proxy), while Pearland's is a figure whose derivation method is not recorded. On FEMA maps Energy Corridor is Zone X (AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARD) and Pearland is not one single zone. Every figure is sourced and linked.

Cost and Demographics

Both columns below come from the same Census ACS tables, and each side links its own source.Energy Corridor's figures are a population-weighted average of ZCTA medians (ZIP/ZCTA proxy), while Pearland's are a figure whose derivation method is not recorded. Where the derivations differ, the columns sit side by side for context, not as a like-for-like comparison. This pair's home-value figures carry a specific limitation: a derivation method is not recorded.

MetricEnergy CorridorPearlandSource
Median owner-occupied home value (ACS)$456,785 (2023)$330,900 (2023)US Census ACS, US Census ACS
Median gross rent (ACS)$1,491 (2023)$1,759 (2023)US Census ACS, US Census ACS
Median household income$82,575 (2023)$112,470 (2023)US Census ACS, US Census ACS
Population98,961 (2023)125,983 (2023)US Census ACS, US Census ACS

Flood Zone in Each Community

FEMA maps Energy Corridor as Zone X (AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARD) and Pearland as more than one flood zone. Where the zone varies, whether flood insurance is federally required depends on the specific address rather than the community.

FEMA flood zoneX (AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARD)VARIES (AE, X)
Special Flood Hazard AreaNovaries

Each designation was sampled at the community centroid and at four points about a mile out; "varies" means those samples disagreed, so the community genuinely has no single zone. Check a specific address on the FEMA Map Service Center before drawing an insurance conclusion either way.

Commute to Job Centers from Each

Estimated one-way minutes from each community's centroid to every major Houston employer campus, so the same commute is priced from both sides.

Job centerEnergy CorridorPearlandCloser
Sysco1 min50 minEnergy Corridor
ConocoPhillips3 min53 minEnergy Corridor
McDermott International3 min53 minEnergy Corridor
SLB3 min49 minEnergy Corridor
Baker Hughes4 min53 minEnergy Corridor
Devon Energy11 min45 minEnergy Corridor
MD Anderson32 min25 minPearland
Houston Methodist31 min26 minPearland
Memorial Hermann32 min26 minPearland
Chevron34 min31 minPearland
NASA79 min31 minPearland
NRG Energy35 min31 minPearland
Halliburton46 min59 minEnergy Corridor
United Airlines51 min66 minEnergy Corridor
Daikin54 min104 minEnergy Corridor
HPE57 min85 minEnergy Corridor
ExxonMobil58 min85 minEnergy Corridor

Straight-line distance converted at ~27mph effective speed. Estimates are not measured drive times. Real I-10, 290 and 59 traffic can exceed them.

Questions people ask about this pair

How far is Energy Corridor from Pearland?

About 23 straight-line miles between their map centroids, a sample-point floor rather than a door-to-door promise. Converted at ~27mph effective speed that is an estimated 52-65 minute one-way drive. See how the estimate is built

Which is cheaper, Energy Corridor or Pearland?

Both home-value figures are in the table above ($456,785 for Energy Corridor, $330,900 for Pearland, 2023 ACS 5-year estimates), but they are not directly comparable: Energy Corridor's is a population-weighted average of ZCTA medians (ZIP/ZCTA proxy), while Pearland's is a figure whose derivation method is not recorded. Because the figures are not measured on the same geography basis, no like-for-like percentage gap is claimed between them.

Which community is safer?

This site does not rank safety between communities. Crime varies block to block, and one number for a whole community hides that spread for both. The right question is address-level, and official incident data can answer it in about ten minutes. Read the ten-minute safety research method

Want this scored against your actual constraints? Run the match engine →. It scores commute, budget fit, and lifestyle. School and flood selections add research notes; they do not change the ranking.

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