Population from U.S. Census ACS 5-year tract estimates aggregated to county · flood from FEMA NFHL · contamination from EPA Superfund and state brownfields · generated 2026-10-07.
What the numbers mean for a buyer
Population has fallen 6.5% since 2010. Thin comparable-sales data is the practical problem: fewer transactions means wider valuation uncertainty, and services like public water or broadband may be contracting rather than expanding. Verify that any utility a listing promises is actually still being extended.
TerraIQs carries 22,998 scored parcels across Houston County's 1,231 square miles — about 19 per square mile. That profile is large working tracts rather than subdivided lots, so soil, water and legal access carry most of the value.
Flood risk in Houston County
Houston County has 116 mapped Special Flood Hazard Area polygons. A parcel-level check matters because SFHA boundaries follow drainage, not property lines — adjacent parcels can carry completely different flood obligations, and a lender will require flood insurance on a structure in Zone A or AE.
See how to check whether a Texas parcel is in a flood zone for what each zone letter obligates you to do.
Contamination and environmental records
There are 5 recorded contamination sites in Houston County (EPA Superfund and state brownfields). A report measures your parcel's distance to each, which is what matters if you plan to put in a water well or anything involving soil disturbance.
Run a report on a Houston County parcel
Search by parcel ID, owner name or address. The report covers flood, pipelines, contamination, wells, soil, slope, zoning, infrastructure, protected areas, habitat and road access in one document. First report free.
What due diligence in Houston County involves
The county-level numbers above tell you what to expect; they don't settle any individual parcel. The checks that decide a deal — legal access, title exceptions, mineral severance, septic suitability, agricultural valuation rollback — are parcel-specific and partly document-based. Our Texas land due diligence checklist walks the full sequence in the order we'd run it, including which steps are free and which are worth paying for.
In Houston County specifically, note that pipeline crossings are common across Texas and are invisible from the road — pipeline easements restrict where you can build permanently.
Frequently asked
TerraIQs carries 22,998 scored parcels in Houston County. Statewide the dataset covers 14.3M+ parcels across all 254 counties; the scored subset is the rural-shard parcels, while urban and residential lots have full dossiers without a quality score.
Houston County has 116 mapped Special Flood Hazard Area polygons. Whether a specific parcel is affected depends on drainage rather than property lines, so it needs a parcel-level check — a single parcel can span both Zone AE and Zone X.
Flood zones, pipeline and utility proximity, contamination site distance, water well records, NRCS soil and septic suitability, slope and terrain, zoning where it exists, infrastructure, protected areas, critical habitat, road access with traffic counts, and population growth context — each with its source dataset version and retrieval date.