Get to Know Fulshear

Until recently, Fulshear was considered by most Houstonians to be part of the countryside, as it was a sparsely populated rural area, with just over 1,000 people in town in 2010. But in the last few years, Fulshear has become enormously popular as people have gone in search of more space. In 2020, Fulshear’s population had risen to 17,000, and in 2023 — just three years later — it had more than doubled to 40,000 residents. Fulshear, about 30 miles west of Houston, just keeps growing, earning the town the nickname of the “new Katy.” Since Fulshear’s growth has been so rapid and recent, residents still mostly go to the original Katy — about a 20-minute drive away — for most of their shopping and dining. Fulshear does have an H-E-B and a popular weekly farmers market that hosts more than 70 local vendors selling locally sourced vegetables, meat, and even homemade tamales.

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Living in Greater Houston

Like all of Texas, Greater Houston’s history is the story of oil, with suburban towns developed by and for gas and oil executives, with Houston’s Energy Corridor remaining a major employer today. The suburbs of Houston stretch in all directions, from Kingwood, technically inside the city limits, all the way up to and beyond The Woodlands, whose growth and prominence has earned it its own identity, separate from H-Town. These suburbs are young metropolises — towns that grew out of farmland and forest in the past 50 years, with houses, office parks, newly created lakes, and golf courses emerging from rural lands where only cows and feral pigs once roamed. As Houston’s economy has diversified and as the region has created more new jobs, Houston residents have looked farther and farther out for more space to settle. Greater Houston is booming and there’s no better place to call home.