Gulfton is a community in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States that includes a 3.2 sq mi group of apartment complexes that primarily house refugee and immigrant populations.
Gulfton is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas with a population of 53,859. Gulfton is in Harris County. Living in Gulfton offers residents an urban feel and most residents rent their homes. In Gulfton there are a lot of bars, restaurants, coffee shops, and parks. Many families and young professionals live in Gulfton and residents tend to be liberal. The public schools in Gulfton are above average.
Although it includes two small areas of single-family homes, large apartment complexes dominate the area’s landscape along with scattered commercial and light industrial uses. Most of Gulfton was originally developed as a rural subdivision called Westmoreland Farms. The large acreage parcels and widely-spaced grid pattern of roads made it possible for very large apartment complexes to be built in the area starting in the 1960s, many of which were restricted to adults. Gulfton is home to many recent immigrants from Mexico and Latin America.
