Sugar Land Demographics

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Population (year 2000): 63,328.

Estimated population in July 2005: 75,754 ( 19.6% change)

Males: 30,983 (48.9%), Females: 32,345 (51.1%)

Located in Fort Bend County, Zip Codes 77478 and 77479

Median resident age: 37.4 years
Median household income: $81,767 (year 2000)
Median house value: $158,000 (year 2000)

For population 25 years and over in Sugar Land

• High school or higher: 93.4%
• Bachelor's degree or higher: 53.7%
• Graduate or professional degree: 19.3%
• Unemployed: 4.1%
• Mean travel time to work: 29.6 minutes

For population 15 years and over in Sugar Land city

• Never married: 20.9%
• Now married: 68.2%
• Separated: 0.9%
• Widowed: 3.7%
• Divorced: 6.3%

23.6% Foreign born (17.7% Asia).

Population change in the 1990s: 18,486 ( 41.2%).

Single-family new house construction building permits:

• 1996: 204 buildings, average cost: $110,100
• 1997: 195 buildings, average cost: $117,000
• 1998: 249 buildings, average cost: $156,500
• 1999: 351 buildings, average cost: $163,400
• 2000: 265 buildings, average cost: $156,000
• 2001: 228 buildings, average cost: $139,000
• 2002: 271 buildings, average cost: $161,900
• 2003: 292 buildings, average cost: $140,400
• 2004: 242 buildings, average cost: $184,800
• 2005: 182 buildings, average cost: $192,600