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Cinco Ranch is a master-planned community and census-designated place in Fort Bend and Harris counties, about 25 miles west of downtown Houston in the Greater Katy area.

The community sits on land first settled under Moses Austin's 1820s colonization grant; in the early 1900s Bassett Blakely ran the Blakely Ranch here, some 15,000 acres carrying about 14,000 head of Brahman cattle.

Cinco Ranch got its name in the 1930s, when five partners bought the working cattle ranch and rice farm and called it Cinco — Spanish for five.

In February 1984, the Cinco Ranch Venture purchased the ranch in what was then the largest raw land transaction in Houston history, launching a 5,000-acre master-planned development that has since grown to roughly 7,600 acres.

Although it functions like a small city, Cinco Ranch is unincorporated and lies within Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Cinco Ranch was first counted as a census-designated place in the 2000 census with 11,196 residents; it reached 18,274 in 2010 and counted 16,899 in 2020 within the Census Bureau's drawn boundaries.

Census Bureau surveys count about 6,064 households in the Cinco Ranch CDP, averaging just over three people per household.

Cinco Ranch has a median household income of about $162,000 and a median home value near $476,000, according to Census Bureau figures, with about 74% of its homes owner-occupied.

Cinco Ranch is planned around lakes, greenbelts, and village-style neighborhoods, and its residents shop and dine at LaCenterra at Cinco Ranch.

Cinco Ranch students attend Katy Independent School District schools — the master plan includes eight Katy ISD campuses inside the community.