Cy-Fair, TX Real Estate

Median Income $90,404

Median Age 31.69

Population 48,987

	Median Temperature
	January	HI 62°	LO 41°	July	HI 93°	LO 73°

	School Test Scores
	Elementary: B F Adam Bane Bang Bear Creek Betty & Jean Malz Birkes Buffalo Creek Cedar Brook Copeland Danish Edgewood Emmott Fiest Francone Frazier Gleason Hairgrove Hollibrook Holmsley Horne Kirk Lee Lieder Lowery Matzke Mayde Creek Metcalf Moore Owens Pine Shadows Post Reed Shadow Oaks Sherwood Spring Branch Spring Shadows T S Hancock Terrace Tipps Westwood Willbern Wilson Willie B Ermel		Middle: Bleyl Campbell Cook Dean Jan Aragon Kahla Labay Mayde Creek High Northbrook Spring Oaks Spring Woods Truitt Watkins		High: Alternative Learning Center Cypress Creek Cypress Falls Cypress Ridge Guthrie Center Jersey Village Langham Creek Mayde Creek Northbrook Spring Woods Windfern
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The Cypress-Fairbanks region (Cy-Fair) is located 25 miles northwest of Houston between Highway 290 and State Highway 249. With a year 2000 population of 18,527, the affluent Cy-Fair community ranks 50th in the top 100 highest-income urban areas in the United States. Cy-Fair is part of a diverse and rapidly growing collection towns, communities and businesses that comprise this vital growth corridor in northwest Harris County. The Cy-Fair Area is second only to the western Katy Area in new business and residential construction. The Cypress-Fairbanks area was once sought for the healing powers promised by a hot artesian well discovered by oil prospectors one mile from Cypress. This find resulted in the Houston Hotwell Sanitarium and Hotel that attracted visitors from around the globe. Today, Cy-Fair's convenient proximity to Houston's dynamic job base, cheap land and excellent schools have contributed much to the popularity of the master-planned communities that populate the Cy-Fair Area. The move by Compaq Computer Corp. to the Cy-Fair Area in 1982, among others industries and businesses, has fed the growing interest in the region. As of early 2006, new housing and business development shows no signs of waning. While multi-family housing is limited in this area, cheap land, good location and excellent have resulted in a diverse assortment of single family housing options. Numerous builders have active new home sales programs in the Cy-Fair area. The recent opening of the Sam Houston Toll way, Houston's outermost Loop, added excellent access to the south and to the east. Cy-Fair Independent School District serves the area and is second only to Houston ISD in enrollment size within Harris County. Strong community and parental support for the district have helped provide the resources that have produced high school graduates whose test scores and college enrollment ratios exceed state and national averages.

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