Where Tomball Is Growing | Old Town Tomball, TX

The Map: Where the Houses Are Going Up

Every new residential property, colored by year added. Use the toggles above the map to filter by year or show neighborhood labels.

Interactive Growth Map

Click any point for address, property type, and appraised value. The dashed line is the official Tomball city-limits boundary; many new homes fall outside it but within the Tomball site address and school-district footprint.

A Ring, Not a Center

New construction wraps the west and north edges of Tomball — Johnson Development's Amira along the Grand Parkway, M/I's Sorella and Colina's Rosehill Meadow off Mueschke Rd, and Long Lake's Oakwood in 77377 — while only a handful of subdivisions (Wood Leaf Reserve, Raburn Reserve, Cherrywood Estates) land inside the city-limits.

Grand Parkway Effect

The 77377 ZIP — opened up by the SH-99 Grand Parkway and home to Amira, Sorella, Ellerden, Oakwood and Rosehill Meadow — accounts for 55% of new residential construction since 2024.

Three Years of Growth

New residential housing units added each year, broken out by housing type. Apartment buildings count by their unit total.

New Housing Units Added Per Year

Stacked bars by property type. 2026 reflects partial-year data through April 22.

How Much Has the City Grown?

Tomball's incorporated city limits — the area that pays City of Tomball property tax — has added housing units at a steady clip year after year.

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Total inside Tomball city limits in 2026.

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Growth since 2023

A Century of Building

The current decade is on pace to be the largest construction wave in the city's history.

Housing Units Built Per Decade — Inside Tomball City Limits

Based on existing homes. Older homes that were demolished are not included. Multi-family parcels are counted by total units, so a 168-unit apartment in the 1980s contributes 168 to that decade. The current decade (2020s) is partial through 2026 YTD.

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City Proper vs the Greater Tomball Area

Homes in the city limits are in HCAD tax district 083. Everything else is in unincorporated Harris County but carries a Tomball site address.

New Homes Per Year — City vs Greater Area

Greater-area construction outpaces city-limits construction roughly 3-to-1 in every year of the window.

Most Growth Is Outside the Line

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City-Limits Homes Are More Expensive

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Dozens of Subdivisions, One Story

New Homes by Neighborhood

Stacked by year so you can see where growth is accelerating.

Subdivision Profiles

Median home size, lot, and value side-by-side. Bars are scaled to the largest value across all subdivisions, so you can compare at a glance.

What's Being Built

Single-family homes dominate, but multi-family supply accounts for roughly 1-in-5 new housing units.

A Single-Family Wave

Nearly all new units are detached single-family homes. Tomball's growth is suburban subdivision growth.

A Little Multi-Family, Too

Seven new multi-family developments carry roughly 591 housing units between them. Two large garden-apartment complexes on N Eldridge Pky (231 units at ~$21M and 170 units at ~$19M) anchor the count; a 26-unit apartment on Rudel Dr, three Tricon Residential build-to-rent parcels at 9835 Willow Creek Commerce Ln (~148 detached rental homes combined), and a ~115k sqft project on Brown-Hufsmith Rd round it out.

Price Points

First-year appraised value of each new home (some homes may be on partial-improvement appraisals — full build-out values arrive the following year)

Appraised Value Distribution

Where the new construction lands on the price spectrum.

People, Not Just Parcels

Residential growth in context — Tomball's estimated population has climbed alongside new construction

Estimated City Population

Annual estimates for the City of Tomball, 2020–2026.

+34% in Six Years

Tomball's population rose from 12,327 at the 2020 census to an estimated 16,564 in 2026 — a 34% increase.

Growth Outside the City Line

These estimates do not include every home with a Tomball address, many of which are in unincorporated Harris County.

The Bottom Line

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New homes and apartments built in Tomball, 2024–2026 YTD

Parcel data from plotvybe.com. A parcel counts as "newly residential in year N" if it carries a residential state class in year N (A1 / A2 / A3 / A4 single-family + condo + mobile home, B1–B3 multi-family, O2 builder-held built homes) AND it was either not in the roll or was non-residential (vacant lot C1/C2/C3, unimproved inventory O1, or commercial) in year N-1, AND the improvement year (yr_impr) is 2023 or later. That broader rule was adopted to catch the common Tomball pattern where a developer plats lots as C1 years earlier and the home appears on the roll only when construction completes. Excluded entirely: O1 vacant platted lots, M3 personal-property mobile homes, F1 commercial, X1 exempt. Also dropped: parcels with a $0 appraised value (construction still pending, no tax-base weight yet — they'll appear on a later year's roll once appraised). "Tax base added" is the increase in total appraised value versus the prior year — i.e. the new house-plus-land value minus the vacant-lot value it replaced — not the raw total of the finished parcels. City boundary from US Census TIGER/Line 2024 (Tomball city place, GEOID 4873316). Population estimates aggregated from US Census, ACS, and Texas Demographic Center.

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