Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near Pomona Manvel, TX

Manvel is a city in northern Brazoria County, Texas, at the intersection of State Highways 6 and 288 and FM 1128, about 25 miles south of Houston in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area.

Manvel was originally named Pomona, but the name was changed to Manvel in honor of a man who went on to become president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, because another Texas town already used a similar name.

The first settlers at Manvel were the W. R. Booth family, who settled on Chocolate Bayou in July 1857; the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was built through the area in 1877, a townsite was laid out in 1890, and Manvel had about 350 residents by 1895.

On September 8, 1931, the Texas Oil Company struck oil on property in Manvel, turning the farming community into a rich oil-producing town; local rice production began in 1936.

Manvel's population grew from 3,046 in 2000 to 5,179 in the 2010 census and 9,992 in the 2020 census.

The Census Bureau estimated Manvel's population at 20,699 by July 1, 2025 - meaning the city more than doubled in size in the five years after the 2020 census.

Manvel had about 4,854 households in the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 survey figures, averaging 3.04 people per household, and 81.4 percent of its homes were owner-occupied.

Manvel is an affluent suburb by Texas standards, with a median household income of $118,808 and a median home value of $338,700 in the 2020-2024 Census figures.

Manvel's land area expanded from 23.5 square miles in 2010 to 27.45 square miles in 2020 as the city annexed growing subdivisions.

Manvel students attend schools in the Alvin Independent School District, including Manvel High School, a UIL 6A school on Highway 6 that opened in 2006 and enrolled about 2,540 students in 2023-24.