Memorial Villages subdivision
Hunters Creek Village: What Buyers and Sellers Should Check
Updated August 2026
Bottom line: Hunters Creek Village is one of six independent cities in the Memorial Villages, incorporated in 1954, with 4,385 residents in the 2020 census and a 2025 adopted city tax rate of 0.2051640 per $100 of taxable value.
What is Hunters Creek Village?
Hunters Creek Village is an incorporated city in Harris County, not a neighborhood of Houston. It is one of the six villages that make up the Memorial Villages, along with Piney Point, Hedwig, Bunker Hill, Spring Valley and Hilshire, and Houston surrounds all six.
It incorporated in 1954, the same year as Hedwig and Bunker Hill, with Spring Valley, Hilshire and Piney Point completing incorporation in 1955. Residents chose their own city governments over annexation, and Houston annexed the land around them instead. The 2020 census counted 4,385 residents in Hunters Creek Village.
Memorial Drive, the east-west arterial the villages grew along, passes through Hunters Creek, Piney Point and Bunker Hill and runs about 20 miles from Interstate 45 west to State Highway 6. The village sits about ten miles west of downtown Houston and maintains 6.33 miles of hiking and biking paths. A 2010 study called Hunters Creek Village the most expensive suburb in Texas.
How much do homes cost in Hunters Creek Village?
The published figures cover all six villages together. As of August 2026, the Memorial Villages median sale price was $2,600,000, the average price per square foot was $512, 188 homes sold over the trailing twelve months, median days on market was 58, closings ran at 97.6 percent of the final list price, and months of inventory read 2.5.
Read those as a frame, not a valuation. The median is a midpoint spanning six villages whose typical lots, ages and price points differ. The price per square foot moves with both closing prices and reported living area, so it is the least stable of the headline numbers.
With 188 closings a year across six villages, the pool a comparison draws from is small, and a single month can move on a handful of estate sales or land-value transactions. For a Hunters Creek address, the useful comparables are closed sales of similar age, lot size and condition inside the village.
How do property taxes work in Hunters Creek Village?
Taxes are set by taxing unit. For tax year 2025, Hunters Creek Village adopted a city rate of 0.2051640 per $100 of taxable value, the lowest city rate of the six villages, alongside Spring Branch ISD at 1.0231000 and Harris County at 0.3809600. The other 2025 city rates are 0.2551400 in Piney Point Village, 0.2710000 in Bunker Hill Village, 0.3363340 in Hedwig Village, 0.3950000 in Spring Valley Village and 0.5292260 in Hilshire Village.
The full set of units taxing a parcel is listed on its Harris Central Appraisal District account, so pull the account before you budget the annual carry.
Exemptions come off taxable value. The residence homestead exemption removes at least $140,000 of value from school taxes, and Harris County grants an additional 20 percent optional exemption. Applications go to HCAD between January 1 and April 30. HCAD appraises at January 1 market value, taxing units adopt rates each fall, and the protest deadline is May 15 or 30 days after the appraisal notice is mailed, whichever is later.
Which schools are zoned to Hunters Creek Village addresses?
Spring Branch ISD serves the Memorial Villages, and its own boundary description names all six. Memorial High School in Hedwig Village serves students in all of the villages, and Spring Branch Middle School is also in Hedwig Village. Hunters Creek Elementary sits inside the village.
One boundary detail belongs on every Hunters Creek file: residences south of Buffalo Bayou in Hunters Creek Village and Piney Point Village fall in the Houston Independent School District instead. Middle and elementary assignments also vary by address, so verify the zoned campus for a specific property with the district's Find My Zoned School lookup rather than relying on the village name.
Spring Branch ISD was established in 1946, is headquartered in Hedwig Village, and serves more than 31,600 students across 44 square miles.
Who provides police, fire and water service in Hunters Creek Village?
The villages run their own services rather than Houston's. The Memorial Villages Police Department serves Bunker Hill, Piney Point and Hunters Creek from its station at 11981 Memorial Drive.
All six villages fund the Village Fire Department, which operates from 901 Corbindale Road, provides both fire and emergency medical services, and holds what it describes as an Insurance Service Organization rating of 1, the highest level. The department describes its six-city service area as covering over nine square miles with a residential population of over 20,000.
Water in several villages runs through shared arrangements such as the Memorial Villages Water Authority. The practical point for a buyer is that permits, ordinances and municipal services in Hunters Creek are the village's own, not the City of Houston's.
Does Hunters Creek Village flood?
Sections of the Memorial Villages have flooded in the past. Buffalo Bayou meanders around the villages in a largely natural state between Beltway 8 and Loop 610, and during Hurricane Harvey in 2017 the Addicks and Barker reservoirs upstream filled to capacity, the Army Corps of Engineers initiated controlled releases, and the Memorial area was heavily damaged.
Floodplain status is decided parcel by parcel. Check the specific address in the Harris County Flood Education Mapping Tool, which shows mapped floodplain boundaries but is not the effective Flood Insurance Rate Map, then confirm on the FIRM itself through FEMA's Map Service Center, where a FIRMette can be generated at no cost. A structure in the mapped 1 percent floodplain needs flood insurance when the mortgage is federally backed.
Carry two cautions from the county's own materials into the review: half or more of Harris County flooding is street flooding and sheet flow the maps do not show, and about 65 percent of the area that flooded during Tropical Storm Allison was outside any mapped floodplain. Paige Martin's team keeps its own research separating the areas that flood from the areas outside the flood plain and shares those details with clients.
How long is the commute from Hunters Creek Village?
A typical weekday drive from the Memorial Villages to downtown Houston takes about 20 minutes, and the drive to the Texas Medical Center about 30 minutes. Both figures describe normal weekday traffic; rush-hour peaks run longer, and the spread depends on which village you start from.
Interstate 10 bisects the wider Memorial area, Beltway 8 is the other principal freeway, and Memorial Drive is the arterial that runs through Hunters Creek. Treat the drive times as planning figures rather than promises, and test your own route at your own commute hour before writing an offer.
How do you compare Hunters Creek Village with the other five villages?
Compare them the way the rules work: village by village and parcel by parcel. Each of the six is its own city with its own zoning, so lot rules can change across a street that separates two villages. City tax rates differ. Flood plain status is a parcel question. School zoning is an address question, including the Buffalo Bayou line inside Hunters Creek.
Paige Martin of Real Broker, LLC focuses on the Memorial Villages. She has ranked first among agents in her broker's Memorial office for over 15 years and has sold over $100 million of Memorial Villages real estate since 2002. Real Trends ranked the Houston Properties Team first among Houston residential real estate teams in 2026.
Her team built its Memorial Villages guide on its own analysis of over 512,000 Houston home sales across 20 years, which is what points to the specific factors that move resale value on a given street rather than across a zip code.
If you are selling, request a Memorial Villages home valuation, send your address and your timing, and ask which closed sales the range rests on. If you are buying, ask which village fits the lot rules, flood plain answer and school zoning your plans depend on, and ask what the sales analysis says about resale value on that particular street.
Questions & answers
Hunters Creek Village questions, answered
What do homes cost in Hunters Creek Village?
There is no separate Hunters Creek Village price figure in our data; the Memorial Villages median sale price was $2,600,000 as of August 2026, at an average of $512 per square foot across all six villages. Price a specific house from closed sales of similar age, lot size and condition inside Hunters Creek.
The area figures frame Hunters Creek without pricing anything in it. The $2,600,000 median is the midpoint of closed sales across six villages, so half of recent closings ran above it and half below. The $512 average price per square foot divides each closing price by reported living area and averages the results, so it is pulled up by estate sales and down by homes that sold for land value. Do not multiply it against a square footage and call the result a valuation. Only 188 homes sold across all six villages in the trailing twelve months, which is a small pool to draw comparables from, and one village's typical lots, ages and price points can differ from another's. A 2010 study called Hunters Creek Village the most expensive suburb in Texas. For a specific street, Paige Martin's team works from its own analysis of over 512,000 Houston home sales across 20 years, which points to the factors that move resale value on that street rather than across a zip code.
What is the property tax rate in Hunters Creek Village?
Hunters Creek Village adopted a city rate of 0.2051640 per $100 of taxable value for tax year 2025. Spring Branch ISD levied 1.0231000 and Harris County 0.3809600 alongside it. The full list of units taxing a parcel appears on its Harris Central Appraisal District account.
Rates are set by taxing unit, not by area name, and the city rate is the piece that changes from village to village. The 2025 adopted city rates per $100 of taxable value run 0.2051640 in Hunters Creek Village, 0.2551400 in Piney Point Village, 0.2710000 in Bunker Hill Village, 0.3363340 in Hedwig Village, 0.3950000 in Spring Valley Village and 0.5292260 in Hilshire Village. Hunters Creek's is the lowest city rate of the six, which is one reason two similar homes in different villages can carry different bills. Exemptions come off taxable value. The residence homestead exemption removes at least $140,000 of value from school taxes, and Harris County grants an additional 20 percent optional exemption. Applications go to HCAD between January 1 and April 30. HCAD appraises at January 1 market value, taxing units adopt their rates each fall, and the protest deadline is May 15 or 30 days after the appraisal notice is mailed, whichever is later. Read the parcel's HCAD account for its recorded exemptions and reported square footage.
Which school district serves my Hunters Creek Village address?
Spring Branch Independent School District serves the Memorial Villages, but residences south of Buffalo Bayou in Hunters Creek Village fall in the Houston Independent School District instead. Because that line runs through the village, verify the zoned campus for the exact address with Spring Branch ISD's Find My Zoned School lookup before you write an offer.
Spring Branch ISD's own boundary description names all six villages, and Memorial High School in Hedwig Village serves students in all of them. Within the district, secondary assignments run to Spring Branch Middle School and Memorial High School, both in Hedwig Village, with a western portion of Bunker Hill Village served by Memorial Middle School. Elementary campuses inside the villages include Hunters Creek Elementary, Memorial Drive Elementary in Piney Point Village, and Bunker Hill and Frostwood Elementary in Bunker Hill Village. Middle and elementary assignments vary by address, which is why the district lookup matters more than the village name. The district was established in 1946, is headquartered in Hedwig Village, and serves more than 31,600 students across 44 square miles. If zoning to Memorial Middle School or Memorial High School is part of your plan, confirm it for the exact address you are considering, and ask your agent how that verification gets documented before an offer goes out.
How do I check whether a Hunters Creek Village home is in the flood plain?
Check the parcel, not the village name. Look up the address in the Harris County Flood Education Mapping Tool at harriscountyfemt.org, which shows mapped floodplain boundaries but is not the effective Flood Insurance Rate Map, then confirm on the FIRM through FEMA's Map Service Center, where a FIRMette costs nothing.
Buffalo Bayou meanders around the villages in a largely natural state, flowing east 53 miles from Katy toward downtown and passing between Beltway 8 and Loop 610, with Rummel Creek and Spring Branch among its named tributaries. During Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the Addicks and Barker reservoirs upstream filled to capacity, the Army Corps of Engineers began controlled releases, and the Memorial area was heavily damaged. A structure in the mapped 1 percent floodplain needs flood insurance when the mortgage is federally backed. Two cautions come from the county's own materials: half or more of Harris County flooding is street flooding and sheet flow the maps do not show, and about 65 percent of the area that flooded during Tropical Storm Allison was outside any mapped floodplain. Since sections of the Memorial Villages have flooded in the past, Paige Martin's team did a deep dive into the areas that flood and the areas outside the flood plain, and shares those details with clients from its own research.
Can I tear down and rebuild on a Hunters Creek Village lot?
Hunters Creek Village writes and enforces its own code and maintains a planning and zoning commission, so what you can build, rebuild or add to a lot is answered by the village, not by any Houston-wide rule. Confirm requirements with the village's own permitting before you plan construction or a major renovation.
Each of the six villages is an incorporated city with its own ordinances, budgets and permitting, which means the answer can change across a street that separates two of them. Hilshire Village describes itself as a zoned community, Hedwig Village adopted its zoning ordinance in 1955, and Spring Valley Village's own history names the desire for zoning as the primary reason it incorporated. Piney Point Village and Bunker Hill Village restricted business development from their early years, and Hedwig Village, uniquely among the six, accepted the commercial development that existed inside it when it incorporated. Hunters Creek Village incorporated in 1954, when residents chose their own city government over annexation, and that structure is what still decides lot rules today. Before you commit to a plan, get the village's requirements in writing, and read the parcel's Harris Central Appraisal District account for the reported living area, since that figure sits behind any price per square foot you are handed.