Greenspoint/North (77067) Yields 12.5% in Houston, Nearly Double the Median

Yields across 132 ZIP codes in Houston (Harris County) range from 12.5% in Greenspoint/North (77067) down to under 2% in the most expensive inner-Loop areas. That spread is wider than the gap between short-term rental and long-term rental at the city level, which means WHERE you buy matters more than HOW you rent it out. The pattern is consistent: outer suburbs with sub-$235,000 entry prices deliver double-digit gross yields, while premium close-in neighborhoods trade income for amenity and capital growth. This ranking shows which Houston suburbs lead on yield and why the gap is so wide.

Greenspoint/North (77067) Leads Houston Yields at 12.5%

The top five Houston suburbs by long-term rental yield all sit well outside the Loop, in price brackets where rent simply does not fall as fast as the sale price.

Gross yields = annual income / sale price. Based on 3-bed house medians. The dashboard shows every property type and bedroom count.

Outer Suburbs Win Because Rent Holds Up Where Prices Fall

Greenspoint/North (77067) leads the ranking with a sale price around $205,000 and a monthly rent of $2,130, producing a yield of 12.5%. The driver is geography: this North Houston pocket sits along the I-45 corridor with quick access to Bush Intercontinental Airport, refining and logistics employment, and the broader North Belt industrial cluster. Wages in those sectors support stable working-renter demand, but the housing stock is older and the area carries a value-grade reputation, so sale prices have not tracked the city average. That mismatch is exactly what drives yield.

South Park/Sunnyside (77033) and Greenspoint/North (77050) follow the same logic. Both sit south or north of the Loop in established neighborhoods with entry prices well below the $293,815 city median for a 3-bed house. Rents in these ZIPs are anchored by genuine occupier demand rather than discretionary spend, which is why they hold up even as comparable houses sell for a third of what an inner-Loop equivalent commands. Pasadena (77502) extends the pattern east toward the petrochemical employment base, where shift workers and contract crews underpin a deep long-term rental pool.

For short-term rental, these outer-suburb ZIPs are not tourist destinations, so nightly demand is project-based: contractors, traveling medical staff visiting the Texas Medical Center from cheaper outer accommodation, and visiting family. Long-term rental is the cleaner thesis in these ZIPs; short-term works only with strong sourcing.

Entry Price, Not Rent, Drives the Yield Gap

The inverse relationship between price and yield is unusually sharp in Houston. The cheapest 3-bed house in the dataset sells for around $136,697, while the most expensive crosses $2,159,500, a roughly fifteen-fold spread within a single county. Rent does not move on anything like that scale. A 3-bed house that costs five times more does not command five times the rent; in the priciest ZIPs it often commands less rent than a comparable house in Pasadena (77502), because high-end tenants are scarce and most premium-suburb owners are owner-occupiers, not landlords.

That arithmetic is what produces the headline number: an investor entering at $205,000 in Greenspoint/North (77067) versus $293,815 at the city median faces a very different capital-risk profile. The yield-led suburb requires roughly 30% less equity, generates more income per dollar invested, and is far more sensitive to neighborhood fundamentals (employment shifts, school zoning, crime perception). The premium suburb requires more capital but the buyer is paying for amenity, walkability, and growth potential rather than current income.

Premium Houston Suburbs Trade Yield for Amenity

For context, here is how some of Houston's most in-demand suburbs compare. These are established neighborhoods where investors typically accept lower yields in exchange for capital growth, liquidity, and tenant quality.

High-demand Houston suburbs for context. Same methodology as the yield ranking above.

These premium Houston neighborhoods yield less on long-term rental because buyers are paying for school catchments, walkability, and proximity to the Medical Center, Galleria, or downtown employment, none of which scale rent proportionally. Short-term rental occasionally improves the picture in walkable inner-Loop ZIPs that draw Medical Center visitors, conventions, and Rice University parents, but Houston's new April 2025 Certificate of Registration requirement (compliance deadline January 2026) and the ban on unhosted multifamily rentals narrows the field meaningfully. Most premium suburb buyers in Houston are not making an income play; they are making a growth-and-amenity play with rental as a hedge.

What the Yield Ranking Doesn't Show

A high yield is a rent-to-price ratio, nothing more. Greenspoint/North (77067)'s 12.5% can mean strong rental demand, depressed sale prices, or both, and the table cannot distinguish between them. The same applies to vacancy: a yield-led ZIP with a thin rental pool can sit empty for months between tenants, and a single bad turnover wipes out the income advantage over a slower-yielding but deeper-market premium suburb. Long-term capital appreciation is also missing from this view. Houston's premium inner-Loop suburbs have historically delivered stronger price growth than outer-belt yield plays, and over a ten-year hold that growth often outweighs the income gap.

Median data also lags. A ZIP gentrifying quickly will look like a yield play in the data for a year or two after rents have started compressing against rising prices. Conversely, a softening high-yield area can show flattering rent figures from leases signed before market deterioration. These are city-medians by ZIP, and individual suburbs diverge significantly from their ZIP averages. The dashboard shows suburb-level data for every bedroom count and property type, which is the level of granularity an actual purchase decision requires.

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Houston's Yield Range Sits Above State and National Medians

Houston's city-median yield of 6.9% compares to a Texas state median around 6.1% and a national median around 5.3%. The top-ranked suburb at 12.5% clears both benchmarks comfortably, while even the median Houston ZIP sits above the national average. The bottom of the Houston range, in the inner-Loop premium ZIPs, falls well below the national median. That spread is the thesis of this article: Houston's metro-level numbers look healthy, but the average masks an enormous suburb-by-suburb divergence, and the dashboard is the only place to see where each individual ZIP lands.

For investors weighing other Texas markets or comparable Sun Belt metros with similar suburban-balance dynamics, Fort Worth Long-Term Rentals Yield 6.0%, Short-Term Caps Kill the Alternative and Dallas Short-Term Rentals Gross 80% More, but Costs Narrow the Gap cover the same question for nearby cities. Houston's edge is the combination of yield-friendly outer belts and a low-restriction short-term rental regime, with the new 2026 permit requirement now adding a compliance step but not a meaningful cap (330 nights modelled, no nightly limit on hosted rentals).

Data reflects market conditions as of April 2026.

Explore Houston rental data in the dashboard to see suburb-level numbers, or review the market score methodology and data sources behind these figures.

This information is for educational purposes only and should not be considered financial or legal advice. Regulations and market conditions change frequently. Verify current rules with local authorities before making investment decisions.