Sugar Land

Key Data

Every Sugar Land figure below comes from a named public dataset, with the survey year and a link to the source table beside each value.

Renting in Sugar Land

The sourced median gross rent here is $1,939 per month (as of 2023). Renters dodge the parcel-level property-tax question but not flood diligence or commute reality, so both still apply. Where this fits against the other communities: the cost-of-living hub, and the budget sizer filters every covered community by a rent number you choose.

School District for Sugar Land

Homes in Sugar Land fall within Fort Bend Independent School District. Sampling points about a mile apart across the community landed in that same district each time, though individual campus attendance zones still vary within any district.

Census TIGERweb "Unified School Districts" point-in-polygon at the community centroid (29.59555, -95.63116); district GEOIDs [Fort Bend Independent School District=4819650]. Sampled 5 points ~1mi apart: all fell in Fort Bend Independent School District.

The Texas Education Agency's 2024-25 accountability rating for that district is FORT BEND ISD B (score 80). That is the DISTRICT's rating, an average across every campus in it, not a rating of the specific schools a given address is zoned to.

Campus grades are counts of individual schools at each letter, so a district rated B can contain both A and D campuses, so check the specific campuses an address is zoned to rather than reading the district letter as a description of them. Verify on txschools.gov · retrieved 2026-08-22

Walkability in Sugar Land

Sugar Land scores 11.3 on the EPA National Walkability Index (a 1–20 scale), with block groups across the community ranging from 10.3 to 13. The index is published per census block group, which is much smaller than Sugar Land, so the the range matters as much as the midpoint, because parts of a community can be far more walkable than others.

A US federal measure (public domain), sampled at the community centroid and four points about a mile out. This is not Walk Score and is not comparable to it.

Flood Zone in Sugar Land

The FEMA flood map covering Sugar Land shows Zone X (AREA WITH REDUCED FLOOD RISK DUE TO LEVEE), which is outside the Special Flood Hazard Area, so flood insurance is not federally required. Sampling points about a mile apart across the community returned this same designation each time.

FEMA NFHL point query at the community centroid (29.59555, -95.63116). FIRM panel 48157C. Verified by sampling 5 points ~1mi apart: all returned zone X. Check a specific address on the FEMA Map Service Center before relying on this. Sugar Land spans multiple zones and a property two streets away can carry a different designation and a different insurance requirement. Full flood-map walkthrough →

Commute from Sugar Land to Major Houston Job Centers

Sugar Land sits 11 miles from SLB, its nearest major employer campus, and 37 miles from ExxonMobil, its farthest. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates; the minute ranges are estimates, not measured drive times.

Method: great-circle distance between Sugar Land and each campus, converted at ~45mph effective speed. Real I-10, 290 and 59 traffic can exceed the bad-morning column. Treat these as a shortlist filter, not a routing answer.