Set astir Thirty miles northward of Downtown Houston, a Timberl& is renowned, when its title suggests, for incorporating the piney wilderness surrounding it sustaining urban and suburban development. It was known as one of a better master-planned communities around a united states, & is one of the fastest-growing communities in Texas. A Timber is page to a Woodlands Town Center Improvement Distrct, a local governmental professional created per Texas Legislature, a Woodlands Waterway, A Quaternary AAA Diamond Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center, a Cynthia Outdoors Mitchell Pavilion, & The Woodlands United states Club, the just golf game club in the united states to use at times captain hicks globe-class links course. About a lot of the community is in the city of Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) with the little part lies in the corporate restricts of Shenandoah.

About The Woodlands
A Forest was based by George P. Mitchell in 1974, who changed ownership of The Woodlands in the 1990's to a joint partnership between Morgan Stanley and Crescent Real Estate Equities. Within January of 2004, Crescent sold their interest in The Timber to the Rouse Company, a development company acquainted master-planned communities. Within 2004, the Rouse Company was sold to General Growth Properties Inc., another looking mall creator.

A Timberland is growing higher when a formidable city, as numbers of corporations come moving to The Timber, like On Center Software, Anadarko, Hewitt Associates, and Chicago Bridge & Iron. A Timber is in A Conroe Independent School District, using a Woodlands High School existence the primary feeder. Construction on The Woodlands College Park High School began inside early 2004 & is scheduled to open inside 2005. the Woodlands Town Center metropolitan area includes searching & feeding facilities, + a waterway evocative of San Antonio's Riverwalk. Under construction in the area come other upscale retail & eating place, also when many urban residential developments.

Geography
A Forest is placed at 30°10'39" North, 95°30'14" West (Xxx.177430, -95.503795).

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the CDP has the sum vicinity of 61.Eight km² (23.9 mi²). Lx.Half a dozen kilometer² (Twenty-three.Quadruplet mi²) of these are l& and Single.Ii klick² (Nought.Fivesome mi²) of these are fluids. A number region is Single.97% h2o.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 55,649 people, 19,881 house, & 15,546 families living in the CDP. A population density is 917.8/km² (2,377.3/mi²). There are 21,014 housing units at an typical density of 346.6/km² (897.7/mi²). A racial makeup of the CDP is 92.36% White, 1.75% African American, 0.29% Native American, 2.80% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.43% from other races, and 1.32% from two or more races. Sestet.64% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 19,881 family away from which 47.1% keep around tikes under a age of Xviii accept the babies, 69.2% come married couples living together, 7.2% have a female homeowner sustaining there is no hubby present, & Twenty-one.8% come non-families. Nineteen.1% of a lot home come processed higher of people & Sevener.3% keep around somebody residing alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical home size is Ii.78 & a typical personal size is Trio.Xxi.

In a CDP the people is spread retired by owning 31.8% under a age of Xviii, Phoebe.0% from either 18 to 2 dozen, Thirty.5% from either Twenty-five to 44, 25.1% from either 45 to 64, & Heptad.6% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 37 years. For each Century females there are 92.Ennead males. For each C females age Eighteen & all over, there are 88.Fin males.

the median income for a home in the CDP is $85,253, & the median income for a personal is $98,675. Males have a median income of $78,642 versus $38,505 for females. A per capita income for the CDP is $37,724. Iv.2% of the people & Trio.0% of families come following a poverty line. Away from a amount people, Little joe.0% of people under a age of 18 & 10.6% of victims 65 & older come dwelling beneath a poverty level.

Education
Pupils in The Timberland attend schools in the Conroe Independent School District.

High schools
The Woodlands High School (TWHS) is the largest high school in Texas in terms of its area (it extends terminated 2 campuses). It it used to be that got a pack of students (on top 4,900) until a opening of another high in The Timberland. TWHS is ranked 567 in Newsweek's 2005 list of the [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7761678/site/newsweek/site/newsweek/100 Best High Schools in America]. The Woodlands College Park High School is a brand new campus built to relieve A Woodlands High School.