HoustonApartmentBuildings.com groups its apartment buildings into 12 neighborhoods. They run from Downtown, Midtown and EaDo / East End in the center of the city to The Heights and Spring Branch to the northwest, Montrose, River Oaks and the Texas Medical Center to the southwest, the Galleria, Memorial and Westchase to the west, and The Woodlands, about 28 miles north. This page lists all 12 neighborhoods with each one’s building and apartment counts, how old and how tall its buildings are, and where it sits relative to Downtown, all from this directory’s records.
The entries stick to this directory’s records and to short facts from the linked public sources: where each neighborhood is and a few landmarks. They describe places, not people, and they do not rank one neighborhood against another. Because the neighborhood pages are this directory’s own groupings, and the groupings are approximate, a page can include buildings beyond the boundaries described in the linked sources; a building’s street address is the precise reference. Each entry links straight to the directory’s page listing that neighborhood’s buildings.
Houston Neighborhoods: Quick Facts
- Neighborhoods in this directory: 12, using the names renters search for, such as The Heights, Montrose and EaDo. They are this directory’s groupings, not official city boundaries.
- Buildings and apartments: 176 apartment buildings in the Houston area, with 59,319 apartments. The most buildings are in The Heights / Washington Ave (16); Midtown has 12, and every other neighborhood has 14 or 15.
- Tallest neighborhoods: Downtown has a median of 21 floors and Montrose / Museum District a median of 8; every other neighborhood has a median of six floors or fewer, and in 4 of the 12 the median building has three floors. See the building records.
- Newest and oldest: EaDo / East End has the newest buildings, with a median year built of 2021; Westchase / Briar Forest has the oldest, at 1995.
- Distance from Downtown: measured from the center of the Downtown buildings, the neighborhoods run from Midtown, about 0.9 miles away, to The Woodlands / Springwoods Village, about 28.3 miles north. See the table.
- Outside the City of Houston: the 15 buildings in The Woodlands / Springwoods Village have mailing addresses in The Woodlands (12) or Spring (3), not the City of Houston. See the entry.
All 12 Houston Neighborhoods in This Directory
Sorted by number of buildings. Select a name to jump to its entry, or the arrow to open the neighborhood’s page of buildings. Medians are rounded to the nearest year. The last column is the straight-line distance and direction from the center of the Downtown buildings to the center of the neighborhood’s buildings, both worked out from the coordinates recorded for each building.
| Neighborhood | Buildings | Apartments | Median year built | Median floors | From Downtown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Heights / Washington Ave → | 16 | 4,865 | 2015 | 5 | about 2.9 mi northwest |
| Downtown → | 15 | 5,133 | 2017 | 21 | the Downtown reference point |
| Galleria / Uptown → | 15 | 4,217 | 2007 | 5 | about 6.5 mi west |
| Memorial / Energy Corridor → | 15 | 6,035 | 2009 | 3 | about 15.3 mi west |
| Montrose / Museum District → | 15 | 4,620 | 2014 | 8 | about 2.3 mi southwest |
| River Oaks / Upper Kirby / Greenway → | 15 | 5,933 | 2014 | 6 | about 3.4 mi west |
| Texas Medical Center / Braeswood → | 15 | 5,880 | 1999 | 4 | about 4.6 mi southwest |
| The Woodlands / Springwoods Village → | 15 | 4,671 | 2007 | 3 | about 28.3 mi north |
| Westchase / Briar Forest → | 15 | 6,300 | 1995 | 3 | about 11.4 mi west |
| EaDo / East End → | 14 | 3,372 | 2021 | 4 | about 1.9 mi southeast |
| Spring Branch / Oak Forest → | 14 | 4,196 | 2001 | 3 | about 7.7 mi northwest |
| Midtown → | 12 | 4,095 | 2015 | 5 | about 0.9 mi southwest |
The Heights / Washington Ave
The Houston Heights, one of the earliest planned communities in Texas, is about 4 miles northwest of Downtown Houston. Oscar Martin Carter, who arrived in Houston in 1886, and a group of investors had established the Omaha and South Texas Land Company by 1891; by 1919 the small community had agreed to be annexed to the City of Houston, and about 100 houses and other properties in the Heights were listed on the National Register of Historic Places between 1980 and 2017 (Wikipedia: Houston Heights). Washington Avenue is part of the original route from Houston to Brenham, and U.S. Highway 90 ran along it before the Katy Freeway opened (Wikipedia: Washington Avenue).
In this directory: 16 buildings with 4,865 apartments · median year built 2015, range 1972–2024 · median 5 floors, tallest District at Washington at 5 · about 304 apartments per building, largest District at Washington with 396 · centered about 2.9 miles northwest of Downtown · ZIP codes 77007 (11), 77008 (3), 77018 (1) and 1 more. See all 16 The Heights / Washington Ave buildings.
Downtown
Downtown is the largest central business district in Houston, near the geographic center of the metropolitan area at the confluence of Interstates 10, 45 and 69. The 1.84-square-mile district contains the original townsite of Houston; a network of pedestrian tunnels and skywalks connects many of its buildings, and Discovery Green, on the east side of the district, is next to the George R. Brown Convention Center (Wikipedia: Downtown Houston).
In this directory: 15 buildings with 5,133 apartments · median year built 2017, range 1966–2023 · median 21 floors, tallest Brava at 46 · about 342 apartments per building, largest SoDo on Main (formerly SkyHouse Houston) with 674 · the Downtown reference point this page measures from · ZIP codes 77002 (13), 77010 (1), 77003 (1). See all 15 Downtown buildings.
Galleria / Uptown
Uptown is about 6.2 miles west of Downtown, centered along Post Oak Boulevard and Westheimer Road and bounded by Woodway Drive to the north, the I-610 West Loop to the east and Richmond Avenue to the south. It includes The Galleria, the largest shopping mall in Texas, and the 901-foot Williams Tower, designed by Philip Johnson (Wikipedia: Uptown Houston).
In this directory: 15 buildings with 4,217 apartments · median year built 2007, range 1960–2019 · median 5 floors, tallest Camden Post Oak at 33 · about 281 apartments per building, largest Alexan 5151 with 397 · centered about 6.5 miles west of Downtown · ZIP codes 77056 (12), 77057 (3). See all 15 Galleria / Uptown buildings.
Memorial / Energy Corridor
The Memorial area is west of Downtown, northwest of Uptown and south of Spring Branch, and takes its name from Memorial Drive. The City of Houston’s Memorial Super Neighborhood is bounded by Buffalo Bayou to the south and Barker Reservoir to the west, with the Memorial Villages, a group of independent municipalities, to the east (Wikipedia: Memorial). The Energy Corridor is a business district on the west side of the metropolitan area, straddling a 7-mile stretch of the Katy Freeway (Interstate 10) from Kirkwood Road west to Barker Cypress Road; BP America, ConocoPhillips and Shell USA are among the energy companies with major operations there (Wikipedia: Energy Corridor).
In this directory: 15 buildings with 6,035 apartments · median year built 2009, range 1982–2023 · median 3 floors, tallest The McAdams at Memorial City at 8 · about 402 apartments per building, largest 2400 Briarwest Apartments with 671 · centered about 15.3 miles west of Downtown · ZIP codes 77077 (5), 77079 (5), 77024 (3) and 1 more. See all 15 Memorial / Energy Corridor buildings.
Montrose / Museum District
Montrose is a neighborhood in west-central Houston, roughly bounded by Interstate 69/U.S. 59 to the south, Allen Parkway to the north and South Shepherd Drive to the west. It was first platted in 1911, and it is home to the Menil Collection, a free museum founded by John and Dominique de Menil, and the Rothko Chapel (Wikipedia: Montrose). The Houston Museum District is an association of 21 museums, cultural centers and community organizations, bordered roughly by State Highway 288, Hermann Park, U.S. 59 and the Texas Medical Center (Wikipedia: Houston Museum District).
In this directory: 15 buildings with 4,620 apartments · median year built 2014, range 1958–2025 · median 8 floors, tallest Hanover Montrose at 30 · about 308 apartments per building, largest The Circle at Hermann Park with 795 · centered about 2.3 miles southwest of Downtown · ZIP codes 77006 (8), 77004 (4), 77098 (2) and 1 more. See all 15 Montrose / Museum District buildings.
River Oaks / Upper Kirby / Greenway
River Oaks, a 1,100-acre community inside the 610 Loop between Downtown and Uptown, was established in the 1920s by brothers Will and Michael Hogg; the adjacent River Oaks Shopping Center, built in 1927, was Houston’s first shopping center (Wikipedia: River Oaks). Upper Kirby is a commercial district west of South Shepherd Drive, east of Buffalo Speedway, north of Bissonnet Street and south of Westheimer Road (Wikipedia: Upper Kirby). Greenway Plaza is a business district along Interstate 69 about 5 miles west of Downtown; it opened in 1973 and contains Lakewood Church (Wikipedia: Greenway Plaza).
In this directory: 15 buildings with 5,933 apartments · median year built 2014, range 1974–2021 · median 6 floors, tallest Hanover River Oaks at 40 · about 396 apartments per building, largest Camden Greenway with 756 · centered about 3.4 miles west of Downtown · ZIP codes 77098 (6), 77019 (5), 77027 (4). See all 15 River Oaks / Upper Kirby / Greenway buildings.
Texas Medical Center / Braeswood
The Texas Medical Center is a 2.1-square-mile neighborhood in south-central Houston with 54 medicine-related institutions, including 21 hospitals; the institution was created in 1945 (Wikipedia: Texas Medical Center). Braeswood Place lies west of the Texas Medical Center and south of the cities of Southside Place and West University Place (Wikipedia: Braeswood Place).
In this directory: 15 buildings with 5,880 apartments · median year built 1999, range 1963–2018 · median 4 floors, tallest Latitude Med Center at 35 · about 392 apartments per building, largest The Weston (formerly Weston Medical Center Apartments) with 793 · centered about 4.6 miles southwest of Downtown · ZIP codes 77030 (7), 77054 (6), 77025 (1) and 1 more. See all 15 Texas Medical Center / Braeswood buildings.
The Woodlands / Springwoods Village
The Woodlands is a special-purpose district and census-designated place about 28 miles north of Houston along Interstate 45, primarily in Montgomery County with portions in Harris County. George P. Mitchell dedicated it in 1974; it had 114,436 residents at the 2020 census, and it is not a city (Wikipedia: The Woodlands). Spring is a census-designated place in Harris County within Houston’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the name is also popularly applied to a smaller area of southern Montgomery County (Wikipedia: Spring). None of the buildings in this group is in the City of Houston.
In this directory: 15 buildings with 4,671 apartments · median year built 2007, range 1981–2017 · median 3 floors, tallest The Mark at CityPlace at 6 · about 311 apartments per building, largest Boardwalk at Town Center with 450 · centered about 28.3 miles north of Downtown · mailing addresses in The Woodlands (12) and Spring (3), outside the City of Houston · ZIP codes 77380 (9), 77381 (2), 77384 (2) and 2 more. See all 15 The Woodlands / Springwoods Village buildings.
Westchase / Briar Forest
Westchase is a business district and neighborhood in western Houston, bounded by Westheimer Road on the north, Gessner Road on the east, Houston Center Boulevard on the west and the Westpark Tollway on the south, and bisected by Beltway 8. In 1973 Westchase Corporation bought 760 acres there and began preparing land for corporate development, and the Texas Legislature created the Westchase Management District in 1995 (Wikipedia: Westchase).
In this directory: 15 buildings with 6,300 apartments · median year built 1995, range 1972–2016 · median 3 floors, tallest Portico at West 8 at 4 · about 420 apartments per building, largest Old Farm Apartment Homes with 734 · centered about 11.4 miles west of Downtown · ZIP codes 77063 (7), 77042 (5), 77082 (3). See all 15 Westchase / Briar Forest buildings.
EaDo / East End
East Downtown (EaDo) lies east of Downtown Houston and north of the Gulf Freeway (Interstate 45), between the George R. Brown Convention Center and the East End; Shell Energy Stadium, home of the Houston Dynamo, is in East Downtown (Wikipedia: East Downtown). The East End runs from the eastern edge of downtown to the Port of Houston and includes two of Houston’s oldest Hispanic neighborhoods, Magnolia Park and Second Ward (Wikipedia: East End); the Second Ward was one of the city’s four original wards (Wikipedia: Second Ward).
In this directory: 14 buildings with 3,372 apartments · median year built 2021, range 1972–2026 · median 4 floors, tallest The Mill Residences at 7 · about 241 apartments per building, largest Gateway on Cullen with 531 · centered about 1.9 miles southeast of Downtown · ZIP codes 77003 (9), 77023 (3), 77011 (2). See all 14 EaDo / East End buildings.
Spring Branch / Oak Forest
Spring Branch is a district in west-northwest Harris County, roughly bordered by Tanner Road and Hempstead Road to the north, Beltway 8 to the west, Interstate 10 to the south and the 610 Loop to the east. It began as a German farming settlement; the City of Houston annexed its eastern part in the 1940s and its western part in the 1950s (Wikipedia: Spring Branch). Oak Forest is a residential community in northwest Houston, north of the 610 Loop and east of U.S. 290, established in 1947 by Frank Sharp’s Oak Forest Realty Corporation (Wikipedia: Oak Forest).
In this directory: 14 buildings with 4,196 apartments · median year built 2001, range 1971–2026 · median 3 floors, tallest The Brighton Garden Oaks at 5 · about 300 apartments per building, largest Waterford Grove Apartments with 552 · centered about 7.7 miles northwest of Downtown · ZIP codes 77018 (5), 77080 (4), 77055 (4) and 1 more. See all 14 Spring Branch / Oak Forest buildings.
Midtown
Midtown is a central neighborhood west-southwest of Downtown, separated from it by the Pierce Elevated section of Interstate 45, and bordered by Montrose to the west, the Museum District to the south and Interstate 69 to the east. It was first settled as a Victorian-style residential neighborhood in the 19th century, and the City of Houston established the Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone in 1995 (Wikipedia: Midtown).
In this directory: 12 buildings with 4,095 apartments · median year built 2015, range 1997–2020 · median 5 floors, tallest Luminary Residences at 30 · about 341 apartments per building, largest MAA Midtown Square with 663 · centered about 0.9 miles southwest of Downtown · ZIP codes 77002 (6), 77006 (6). See all 12 Midtown buildings.
Building Records by Neighborhood
HoustonApartmentBuildings.com is a free directory of rental apartment buildings with at least 50 apartments in the Houston area, organized into 12 neighborhood pages. The table below summarizes when each neighborhood’s buildings were built and how tall and large they are. This directory does not record building amenities, so this page shows none; confirm pets, parking, laundry, air conditioning and fitness rooms with each building’s leasing office.
| Neighborhood page | Years built | Built 2015 or later | Median floors | Tallest (floors) | Apartments per building |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Heights / Washington Ave | 1972–2024 | 8 of 16 | 5 | 5 | 304 |
| Downtown | 1966–2023 | 13 of 15 | 21 | 46 | 342 |
| Galleria / Uptown | 1960–2019 | 2 of 15 | 5 | 33 | 281 |
| Memorial / Energy Corridor | 1982–2023 | 5 of 15 | 3 | 8 | 402 |
| Montrose / Museum District | 1958–2025 | 7 of 15 | 8 | 30 | 308 |
| River Oaks / Upper Kirby / Greenway | 1974–2021 | 7 of 15 | 6 | 40 | 396 |
| Texas Medical Center / Braeswood | 1963–2018 | 4 of 15 | 4 | 35 | 392 |
| The Woodlands / Springwoods Village | 1981–2017 | 2 of 15 | 3 | 6 | 311 |
| Westchase / Briar Forest | 1972–2016 | 1 of 15 | 3 | 4 | 420 |
| EaDo / East End | 1972–2026 | 11 of 14 | 4 | 7 | 241 |
| Spring Branch / Oak Forest | 1971–2026 | 7 of 14 | 3 | 5 | 300 |
| Midtown | 1997–2020 | 6 of 12 | 5 | 30 | 341 |
161 of the 176 buildings have a Houston mailing address; the other 15, all in The Woodlands / Springwoods Village, have mailing addresses in The Woodlands or Spring, outside the City of Houston. A Houston mailing address does not by itself settle which city a building is in (the Memorial Villages and West University Place, for example, are separate cities), and this page does not say whether any building is inside a particular city’s limits. Houston buildings are renamed often, so the street address is the reliable identifier. Every building is listed on the buildings A–Z page.
Where Our 12 Neighborhoods Sit Relative to Downtown
This table shows how far, and in which direction, the center of each neighborhood’s buildings is from the center of the Downtown buildings, worked out from each building’s recorded coordinates. Distances are straight-line and approximate, not driving distances, and a direction describes where the center of the directory’s buildings falls, not the whole neighborhood. The ZIP codes are those recorded in the buildings’ addresses, with building counts in brackets.
| Neighborhood page | From Downtown | Direction | ZIP codes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown | — | — | 77002 (13), 77010 (1), 77003 (1) |
| Midtown | 0.9 mi | southwest | 77002 (6), 77006 (6) |
| EaDo / East End | 1.9 mi | southeast | 77003 (9), 77023 (3), 77011 (2) |
| Montrose / Museum District | 2.3 mi | southwest | 77006 (8), 77004 (4), 77098 (2), 77019 (1) |
| The Heights / Washington Ave | 2.9 mi | northwest | 77007 (11), 77008 (3), 77018 (1), 77009 (1) |
| River Oaks / Upper Kirby / Greenway | 3.4 mi | west | 77098 (6), 77019 (5), 77027 (4) |
| Texas Medical Center / Braeswood | 4.6 mi | southwest | 77030 (7), 77054 (6), 77025 (1), 77021 (1) |
| Galleria / Uptown | 6.5 mi | west | 77056 (12), 77057 (3) |
| Spring Branch / Oak Forest | 7.7 mi | northwest | 77018 (5), 77080 (4), 77055 (4), 77092 (1) |
| Westchase / Briar Forest | 11.4 mi | west | 77063 (7), 77042 (5), 77082 (3) |
| Memorial / Energy Corridor | 15.3 mi | west | 77077 (5), 77079 (5), 77024 (3), 77094 (2) |
| The Woodlands / Springwoods Village | 28.3 mi | north | 77380 (9), 77381 (2), 77384 (2), 77382 (1), 77389 (1) |
Houston Neighborhoods: Frequently Asked Questions
How many neighborhoods does this Houston directory cover?
12. They are this directory’s own groupings under familiar names, from The Heights / Washington Ave, with 16 buildings, to Midtown, with 12. They are not official city boundaries.
Which Houston neighborhoods have the tallest apartment buildings in this directory?
Downtown (21 floors at the median) and Montrose / Museum District (8). The tallest building in the directory, Brava, has 46 floors and is in Downtown; Montrose / Museum District’s The Circle at Hermann Park, with 795 apartments, is the largest building listed. Most other neighborhoods are mainly three- to six-floor buildings.
Which Houston neighborhoods have the newest apartment buildings?
By median year built, EaDo / East End (2021), Downtown (2017), The Heights / Washington Ave (2015) and Midtown (2015) have the newest buildings in this directory. 11 of EaDo / East End’s 14 buildings were built in 2015 or later.
Which Houston neighborhoods have older apartment buildings?
Westchase / Briar Forest (1995) and Texas Medical Center / Braeswood (1999) have the oldest median year built in this directory. The oldest building listed is The Block at Montrose in Montrose / Museum District, built in 1958.
Which neighborhoods are farthest from Downtown?
The Woodlands / Springwoods Village (about 28.3 miles north), Memorial / Energy Corridor (about 15.3 miles west) and Westchase / Briar Forest (about 11.4 miles west), measured straight-line between the centers of each neighborhood’s buildings. See the distance table.
Are The Woodlands buildings in Houston?
No. The 15 buildings in The Woodlands / Springwoods Village have mailing addresses in The Woodlands (12) or Spring (3), outside the City of Houston. The Woodlands is a census-designated place primarily in Montgomery County, about 28 miles north of Houston, and is not a city; Spring is a census-designated place in Harris County. The directory includes them because it covers the Houston metropolitan area.
Sources and Method
Building and apartment counts, years built, floors, mailing cities, ZIP codes and coordinates come from this directory’s own building records, counted on October 7, 2026; year built and floors are recorded for all 176 buildings. Medians are rounded to the nearest year or floor where needed. Distances and directions are straight-line, between the average coordinates of each neighborhood’s buildings and of the Downtown buildings. For how the records are compiled, see Houston apartment building data.
The short descriptions of each neighborhood and its landmarks come from these pages, read on October 7, 2026: Wikipedia: Houston Heights; Wikipedia: Washington Avenue (Houston); Wikipedia: Downtown Houston; Wikipedia: Montrose, Houston; Wikipedia: Houston Museum District; Wikipedia: River Oaks, Houston; Wikipedia: Upper Kirby; Wikipedia: Greenway Plaza; Wikipedia: Uptown Houston; Wikipedia: Texas Medical Center; Wikipedia: Braeswood Place, Houston; Wikipedia: Memorial, Houston; Wikipedia: Energy Corridor; Wikipedia: Westchase, Houston; Wikipedia: The Woodlands, Texas; Wikipedia: Spring, Texas; Wikipedia: East Downtown Houston; Wikipedia: East End, Houston; Wikipedia: Second Ward, Houston; Wikipedia: Spring Branch, Houston; Wikipedia: Oak Forest, Houston; Wikipedia: Midtown Houston. Boundaries and landmarks can change; check the City of Houston, or Montgomery County for The Woodlands, for current information.
Related pages: Houston apartment building data, all buildings A–Z, the neighborhood match quiz, and the building map.