About Bay Area Houston Bay Area Houston is a region that surrounds the Galveston Bay estuary of Southeast Texas in the United States. Residents of Houston and surrounding areas typically call it simply the “Bay Area.” The Bay Area has a diverse economy with much of it built around aerospace, petrochemicals, healthcare and high tech industries. The region’s economy is closely tied to the rest of the Houston area though the mix of local businesses The tourism industry draws millions of visitors each year with attractions ranging from Space Center Houston, Kemah Boardwalk to the bay itself. Ecotourism, in particular, is a growing sector with destinations such as the Armand Bayou Nature Center.
NASA HEALTHCARE
For more than four decades, NASA’s The healthcare industry makes up a Johnson Space Center has led our significant portion of the Bay Area nation and the world on a continuing Houston’s economy. A multitude of adventure of human exploration, hospitals, private practices, multi discovery and achievement. Although specialty clinics, specialty doctors Houston is referred to as “Space City,” and emergency care centers serve JSC is actually located near Clear Lake the region. in the Bay Area Houston. The JSC civil service workforce consists of about Some of the major healthcare 3,000 employees, the majority of providers include Bayshore Medical whom are professional engineers and Center, CHRISTUS St. John Hospital, scientists. Of these, approximately Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, 110 are astronauts. About 50 Cornerstone Hospital, Devereux companies provide contractor Texas Treatment Network, personnel to JSC. More than 12,000 Houston Physicians’ Hospital, contractors work onsite or in nearby Innovative Alternatives, Inc, office buildings and other facilities. M.D. Anderson Clinical Care Center in the Bay Area, Kindred Healthcare, NASA’s estimated budget for Memorial Hermann Southeast 2013 is $17.7 Billion and invests in Hospital, Moody Health Center, New new space technologies like laser Dimensions Home Healthcare Plus, communications, zero-gravity Inc, San Jacinto Methodist Hospital, propellant transfer, heavy-lift rockets, St. Luke’s Patients Medical Center, crew capsules and earth observation Texas Oncology, The Eye Clinic of research spacecraft. Texas and The University of Texas Medical Branch, which has over 40 Bay Area locations. AEROSPACE BOATING
TECHNOLOGY Bay Area Houston is at home on the water. Thousands of miles of Houston is home to more than 450 coastline offer residents ample companies with a connection to opportunity to enjoy the water the space industry and more than through recreational boating and 120 that are involved in aviation. fishing, and in turn have created From 2009 to 2010, Houston’s total economic opportunity for industries trade in aircraft, spacecraft and parts that cater to this lifestyle. grew 14% to $1.54 billion. NASA’s close proximity has cultivated an The region is host to several impressive presence of research, prestigious, long-standing engineering and technology firms. yachting/sailing organizations and marinas such as Lakewood Notable companies include Boeing, Yacht Club in Seabrook, Houston Lockheed Martin, Space X, Ares Yacht Club in Shoreacres, Texas Corporation, MEI Technologies Inc., Corinthian Yacht Club and Waterford ATK Laumch Systems, MicroTesla Yacht Club in Kemah. Ltd., Barrios Technology, Inc., Neptec USA, Inc., Coleman & Associates, Our proximity to the water and Nimco Instruments, Polygon attractions like the Kemah Boardwalk Aerospace, Hernandez Engineering and nearby Galveston Island bring Inc., Jacobs Engineering, Honeywell a considerable amount of tourism Aerospace, S & K Aerospace, Inc., dollars into our economy. The Houston Technology Center, J & inshore bays and offshore waters of P Technologies, L-3 STRATIS and the Gulf of Mexico offer some of the Wyman-Gordon Company. world’s finest fishing and seafood.
PETRO/CHEM PORT OF REFINING HOUSTON
Bay Area Houston is one of the The Port of Houston is a 25-mile- world’s largest manufacturing long complex of diversified public centers for petrochemicals, and the and private facilities located just $15 billion petrochemical complex a few hours by ship from the Gulf at the Houston Ship Channel is the of Mexico. The port is consistently largest in the country. Supporting ranked 1st in the United States in the industry is a complex of foreign waterborne tonnage; 1st several thousand miles of pipeline in U.S. imports; 2nd in U.S. export connecting 200 chemical plants, tonnage and 2nd in the U.S. in total refinery, salt domes and fractionation tonnage. It is also the nation’s leading plants along the Texas Gulf Coast. breakbulk post, handling 65 percent Houston has more than 400 chemical of all major U.S. project cargo. As manufacturing establishments one of the world’s busiest ports, the with more than 35,000 employees. Port of Houston is a large and vibrant Houston has two of four largest U.S. component of the regional economy. refineries. ExxonMobil’s complex in Baytown is one of the oldest in the A 2007 study by Martin Associates area and one of the largest of its kind says ship channel-related businesses in the world. Houston dominates the contribute to more than 785,000 jobs U.S. production of three major resins: throughout Texas while generating polyethylene (38.7% of U.S. capacity); nearly $118 billion of statewide polyvinyl chloride (35.9% of U.S. economic impact. Additionally, more capacity) and polypropylene (48.4% than $3.7 billion in state and local tax of U.S. capacity). revenues are generated by business activities related to the port. BAY AREA HOUSTON BY THE NUMBERS
Pasadena 77503 Pasadena 77506 Median Household Income Pasadena Gold: $90,000 - $130,000 77502 La Porte Green: $70,000 - $90,000 77571 Pasadena Pasadena Blue: $55,000 - $70,000 77504 77505 Purple $43,000 - $55,000 Red: $20,000 - $43,000 *United States Census 2010 Taylor Lake Village Houston 77586 77059 El Lago Pasadena 77586 77507 Seabrook 77586 Houston 77062 Houston 77058 Clear Lake Shores 77565
Kemah Webster 77565 77598
Friendswood 77546
League City SAN LEON 77573 77539
Dickinson 77539
TEXAS CITY 77510 77518 77539 77554 77568 77590 77591 77592
LA MARQUE 77510 GALVESTON 77550 77551 77552 77553 77554 77555
Age Race Education White Graduate Hispanic Bachelors African-American Associates Asian/Paci c Island Some College Other High School 9-12 Grade Less than 9th Grade
Source: 2010 United States Census Includes the following cities: Clear Lake City (Houston) Clear Lake Shores, Dickinson, El Lago, Friendswood, Kemah, La Porte, League City, Nassau Bay, Pasadena, Seabrook, Taylor Lake Village, and Webster.