Timberwood by the numbers

Every number on this page comes from public records and most of them come from the Harris Central Appraisal District's own published data files. Nothing here was obtained privately. Anyone can download the same files and count the same things, and the links under each section are where to get them.¹²

Who lives here

Of the 1,014 Timberwood lots counted here:¹

	Lots	Share
Lived in by the owner	778	76.7%
Owned by a company or trust	144	14.2%
Owner lives elsewhere in Texas	79	7.8%
Owner lives out of state	5	0.5%
Vacant lot	4	0.4%
Government or exempt	4	0.4%

The company-owned figure needs reading carefully. 75 of those 144 belong to Candlewood Homes, which is the builder that still owns most of the unbuilt Section 10.² Those are lots waiting to be built on and they are not rented houses. Setting the builder aside, 69 lots are held by a company or trust, which is about 6.8%.

A lot counts as lived in by its owner when the mailing address on the roll matches the house, or when the owner has filed a residential homestead exemption on it. That exemption is a declaration that the property is their principal residence. No other exemption is used here and none is shown for any individual property.

Four more lots inside the neighborhood are marked confidential by the appraisal district under Tax Code section 25.025.³ That section lets certain people keep their address out of public records. Those four are left out of every count on this page.

The houses

935 of the lots carry a house.¹

Median year built	1993
Oldest and newest	1978 and 2025
Median living area	1,799 sq ft
Smallest and largest	1,220 and 3,786 sq ft
Average lot	about 7,558 sq ft, a little over a sixth of an acre
Average market value	about $238,000

Market value is what the appraisal district says a property is worth. It is not what the house would sell for and it is not what anyone paid for it. Texas does not make sale prices public. See property taxes.

When it was built

Decade	Houses
1970s	101
1980s	281
1990s	371
2000s	132
2010s	43
2020s	7

The 1990s were the biggest decade and building has never entirely stopped. See how Timberwood got here for the gap between 1985 and 1990.

Flood zones

Of the 1,014 lots, 148 sit in Zone AE, the mapped high risk zone where a mortgage lender requires flood insurance. That is about one lot in seven, and one of the 148 is inside the regulatory floodway.⁴

The other 866 are Zone X, which FEMA writes as one code for two different things, and the two mean different things:

Zone	Lots	What it means
Zone AE	148	The 100-year floodplain. A 1% chance in any year, about 26% across a 30-year mortgage. Insurance required with a federally backed mortgage.
Zone X, shaded	336	The 500-year floodplain. A 0.2% chance in any year, about 6% across a 30-year mortgage. Insurance not required. Humble's floodplain permit rules still reach it.
Zone X	530	Outside both floodplains. Insurance not required.

So a third of the neighborhood sits in the 500-year floodplain rather than clear of the floodplain altogether, which a map colored by Zone X alone does not show. Which band a particular house is in varies within a single street. See flooding and the map.

Where these numbers come from

The appraisal roll, published by the Harris Central Appraisal District as public data files anyone can download.¹ Ownership, year built, floor area, lot size and value all come from there.
The property search on the same district's site, one account at a time.²
FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer, the data behind the official flood maps.⁴

Counts were taken on August 20, 2026 against the 2026 roll. The roll changes through the year and is certified in mid August.¹

Where this comes from

Harris Central Appraisal DistrictPublic property data downloads, the files these counts were made fromhcad.org
Harris Central Appraisal DistrictProperty search, one account at a timehcad.org
Texas LegislatureTax Code 25.025, addresses kept confidentialstatutes.capitol.texas.gov
FEMANational Flood Hazard Layermsc.fema.gov