Houston core
Downtown Houston
Nine Fortune 500 headquarters and a growing "Live Downtown" residential push, on the site Houston's founders platted in 1836.
HarrisThe Heights
A 19th-century streetcar suburb of bungalows, built on a low ridge to escape yellow fever -- Houston's most gentrified historic neighborhood.
Cities across the metro
Cypress
One of the largest unincorporated communities in the Houston area -- and the Houston Texans' planned future home base.
Harris/Fort Bend/Waller tripointKaty
Named for a railroad, not a person -- a former rice-farming town now anchored by top-ranked schools and the BP-anchored Energy Corridor next door.
Galveston (small portion in Harris)League City
Galveston County's largest city, built on lakes and bayous near the NASA/Clear Lake corridor -- though Johnson Space Center itself is technically in Houston.
HarrisPasadena
Houston's genuine port-and-petrochemical anchor, along the Ship Channel -- and the one suburb on this list that's shrinking, not growing.
Brazoria (touches Harris and Fort Bend)Pearland
One of the fastest-growing Houston suburbs of the last two decades, built on proximity to the Texas Medical Center and the NASA/Clear Lake corridor.
Fort BendSugar Land
A former sugar-refinery company town turned master-planned corporate suburb -- Schlumberger's U.S. headquarters and Texas's highest Asian-American population share.
Montgomery (small portion in Harris)The Woodlands
One of the first and most influential master-planned "forest towns" in the U.S. -- and, unusually, not actually an incorporated city.
Coming soon
Montrose
Guide in progress.
Missouri City
Guide in progress.
Conroe
Guide in progress.
Spring
Guide in progress.
Friendswood
Guide in progress.
Baytown
Guide in progress.
Humble
Guide in progress.
Tomball
Guide in progress.