Which ZIP code in the Houston area has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?

77002 (Houston), at 53.7%, among 215 ZIP codes with at least 1,000 residents.

Why are some ZIP codes missing?

ZIP codes with fewer than 1,000 residents are left out because their survey estimates swing too much to rank, and so are ZIP codes where the Census Bureau did not publish this figure.

ZIP codes with the most new movers in the Houston Area

These are the 25 ZIP codes in the Houston area with the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year, out of 215 with at least 1,000 residents. 77002 (Houston, 53.7%), 77204 (Houston, 38.9%) and 77054 (Houston, 35.6%) lead the list. There is no single "best" ZIP code in the Houston area; the right one depends on who you want to reach, so the same ZIP codes are ranked several ways below.

ZIP codes with the most new movers in the Houston area

Rank	ZIP	Mailing city	Moved in the past year	Residents	Households	Residential mailboxes
1	77002	Houston	53.7%	21,015	7,644	12,335
2	77204	Houston	38.9%	4,579	0	—
3	77054	Houston	35.6%	28,272	16,926	16,108
4	77030	Houston	31.1%	13,380	6,714	7,844
5	77006	Houston	30.5%	24,892	14,697	16,725
6	77446	Prairie View	29.4%	5,780	935	—
7	77027	Houston	27.4%	20,317	12,173	14,775
8	77058	Houston	27.2%	17,850	9,938	10,868
9	77013	Houston	27.0%	18,259	5,747	6,379
10	77019	Houston	26.5%	23,708	13,359	16,933
11	77007	Houston	26.0%	47,808	25,429	31,282
12	77598	Webster	25.8%	26,110	12,494	13,349
13	77063	Houston	25.7%	42,690	20,465	20,547
14	77042	Houston	25.6%	38,721	18,122	21,852
15	77056	Houston	24.7%	22,877	12,929	16,031
16	77057	Houston	24.2%	46,569	22,444	25,245
17	77550	Galveston	24.2%	23,489	11,860	13,506
18	77554	Galveston	24.1%	10,414	5,135	7,210
19	77003	Houston	23.6%	10,164	5,674	7,792
20	77504	Pasadena	23.4%	25,779	8,958	9,628
21	77008	Houston	23.2%	41,645	20,352	25,429
22	77079	Houston	23.2%	37,276	15,423	16,682
23	77004	Houston	22.5%	35,997	16,623	18,251
24	77098	Houston	22.3%	17,210	9,442	10,915
25	77070	Houston	21.9%	58,229	22,107	24,554

How we ranked them

Ranked by the share of residents (age 1 and over) who lived in a different home a year earlier (ACS Data Profile, 2020–2024). No margin of error is published for this share in our files. ZIP codes need at least 1,000 residents to be ranked; 215 of 238 qualify.

Which of these to mail, and why

New residents are still choosing a dentist, a gym, a pizza place and a lawn service. ZIP codes with high turnover give a welcome offer more people to work on each year.

The top five ZIP codes on this list hold 45,981 households. Open any of them on the route map to see each carrier route's own figures before you choose.

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Frequently asked questions

Which ZIP code in the Houston area has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?: 77002 (Houston), at 53.7%, among 215 ZIP codes with at least 1,000 residents.
How is this ranking calculated?: Ranked by the share of residents (age 1 and over) who lived in a different home a year earlier (ACS Data Profile, 2020–2024). No margin of error is published for this share in our files.
Why are some ZIP codes missing?: ZIP codes with fewer than 1,000 residents are left out because their survey estimates swing too much to rank, and so are ZIP codes where the Census Bureau did not publish this figure.

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