Fulshear vs Sugar Land

A side-by-side comparison of Fulshear and Sugar Land: population, income, housing, and more.

Fulshear and Sugar Land are places in Texas. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Sugar Land has the higher population (109,735 vs 26,986 in Fulshear). Fulshear has the higher median household income ($178,398 vs $137,511 in Sugar Land). Fulshear has the higher median home value ($546,200 vs $406,600 in Sugar Land).

Population, income & housing

	Fulshear	Sugar Land
Population	26,986	109,735
Median age	37.4 yrs	42.5 yrs
Median household income	$178,398	$137,511
Median home value	$546,200	$406,600
Median gross rent	$1,889	$1,939
Housing units	8,191	39,196
Homeownership rate	91.1%	80.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher	68.4%	62.4%
Unemployment rate	4.4%	4.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Fulshear	Sugar Land
Population	9,906 → 26,986 (+172.4%)	118,709 → 109,735 (-7.6%)
Median household income	$166,863 → $178,398 (+6.9%)	$121,274 → $137,511 (+13.4%)
Median home value	$399,300 → $546,200 (+36.8%)	$323,300 → $406,600 (+25.8%)
Median gross rent	$2,594 → $1,889 (-27.2%)	$1,775 → $1,939 (+9.2%)

Fulshear

Population

9,90626,986

Median household income

$166,863$178,398

Median home value

$399,300$546,200

Median gross rent

$2,594$1,889

Sugar Land

Population

118,709109,735

Median household income

$121,274$137,511

Median home value

$323,300$406,600

Median gross rent

$1,775$1,939

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Fulshear	Sugar Land
Under 5	4.1%	4.3%
5 to 17	30.3%	18.9%
18 to 24	5.7%	7.5%
25 to 34	6.3%	9.7%
35 to 44	19.0%	13.1%
45 to 54	16.9%	15.1%
55 to 64	9.3%	13.3%
65 to 74	6.4%	11.7%
75 and over	2.0%	6.4%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Fulshear	Sugar Land
White (non-Hispanic)	53.8%	36.7%
Black or African American	6.4%	7.5%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.1%
Asian	11.9%	39.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.4%	0.1%
Some other race	0.0%	0.4%
Two or more races	5.7%	3.9%
Hispanic or Latino	21.8%	12.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Fulshear	Sugar Land
No high school diploma	0.8%	4.9%
High school graduate	7.6%	12.6%
Some college or associate's	23.2%	20.1%
Bachelor's degree	42.2%	35.2%
Graduate or professional degree	26.2%	27.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Fulshear	Sugar Land
Drove alone	60.7%	69.4%
Carpooled	9.4%	8.5%
Public transit	0.4%	0.6%
Walked	0.0%	0.4%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.1%
Worked from home	29.4%	20.0%
Other means	0.2%	1.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Fulshear	Sugar Land
1-unit, detached	92.7%	86.3%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	2.5%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.8%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	3.5%
20 or more units	5.8%	6.7%
Mobile home & other	1.5%	0.2%

Poverty & households

	Fulshear	Sugar Land
Poverty rate	2.4%	5.1%
Average household size	3.41	2.89
Mean commute (minutes)	39	29
Median year structure built	2015	1994