Healthcare & Safety in Humble
Humble has strong hospital access via neighboring Kingwood's flagship facilities, but crime data disagrees dramatically depending on the source -- one of the widest disclosed discrepancies in this batch, and worth verifying directly before relying on either figure alone.
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Learn moreStrong hospital access, centered in neighboring Kingwood
HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood is a 451-bed full-service acute-care hospital with a Level II Trauma Center, a Level III NICU, and the only Comprehensive Stroke Center in Northeast Houston, recognized among America's 250 Best Hospitals and America's 50 Best Cardiac Surgery programs. Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital (257 beds, serving the area 47+ years) and Memorial Hermann Surgical Hospital Kingwood also serve the immediate area, alongside HCA Houston ER 24/7 - Fall Creek directly in Humble (base record). Like Insperity, these flagship hospitals sit in neighboring Kingwood rather than Humble's own small city limits, but are genuinely close, everyday healthcare access.
Crime data: a dramatic, disclosed disagreement between sources
CrimeGrade cites an overall crime rate of 32.30 per 1,000 residents (property crime 16.74, violent crime 4.41), with a 'cost of crime' estimate of $522/resident/year -- $57 above the national average but $33 below the Texas state average. NeighborhoodScout describes Humble's overall crime rate (118 per 1,000, a 1-in-8 chance of victimization) as 'one of the highest in America compared to all communities of all sizes' -- roughly a 3.5x difference from CrimeGrade's reading (base record). This is one of the sharpest source disagreements found in this build batch, disclosed here explicitly rather than resolved by choosing the more favorable figure. Note that the small incorporated City of Humble and the larger surrounding area casually called 'Humble' may not be drawn identically by each aggregator, which may partly explain the spread.
Verify current, address-specific data directly
Given how sharply these two major sources disagree, verify current crime data directly with CrimeGrade.org or NeighborhoodScout for a specific address before making a relocation decision, rather than relying on a single citywide figure from either. No specific neighborhood is named here as unsafe, per site policy.
Key takeaways
- Strong hospital access via neighboring Kingwood's HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood (451 beds, Level II Trauma, Comprehensive Stroke Center) and Memorial Hermann Northeast (257 beds), plus an ER directly in Humble.
- CrimeGrade cites a moderate overall crime rate close to state-average cost-of-crime; NeighborhoodScout describes Humble's overall crime rate as one of the highest in the country -- a roughly 3.5x disclosed discrepancy, one of the sharpest in this batch.
- The small incorporated City of Humble and the larger surrounding area sharing its name may not be drawn identically across crime-data sources, potentially explaining part of the gap.
- Verify current, address-specific crime data directly given how sharply the two major sources disagree here.
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