Piney Point Village is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States.
Piney Point Village is the wealthiest place in Texas, as ranked by per capita income.
It is part of a collection of upscale residential communities in west Houston known as the Memorial Villages.
[7] In 1993 Piney Point Village announced that the consulate owed the city around $14,000 United States dollars.
[8] The Japanese argued that international agreements exempted consulate facilities from taxes, while Piney Point Village said the annual fees were for user services.
James Baker, a Piney Point Village alderman, threatened to suspend garbage pickup services and expose the Japanese consulate to ridicule.
According to Vice-Consul Takaki Takinami originally the city charged $14,915.52 before changing the invoice and deducting police and fire costs.
[12] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.4 km2), all land.
The city government stated that it decided to buy the mansion to avoid high rental costs.
[21] Harris County Precinct Three, headed by Steve Radack as of 2008, serves Piney Point Village.
[25] Piney Point Village is in Texas's 7th congressional district; in 2008, the pro-Republican Party publication Human Events identified the zip code 77024 as the zip code that gave the eighth largest contribution to John McCain's 2008 U.S. Presidential Election campaign.
The zip code, which includes the portion of Piney Point Village north of the Buffalo Bayou, gave $540,309 United States dollars by October 24, 2008.
[28] In recent decades, Piney Point Village has consistently supported Republican presidential and gubernatorial candidates.
In the 2020 presidential election, even as Joe Biden made gains on Hillary Clinton's performance in more urbanized areas in the state of Texas, Donald Trump exceeded his 2016 percentage in the city.
[43] Memorial Drive Elementary School is within the city boundaries of Piney Point Village and serves all residents in the SBISD portion.
[45][46] The portion south of the Buffalo Bayou is served by the Houston Independent School District.
The United States Postal Service location serving 77024 is the Memorial Park Post Office at 10505 Town and Country Way, Houston, Texas, 77024-9998.
The location serving 77063 is the John Dunlop Post Office at 8728 Beverlyhill Street, Houston, Texas, 77063-9998.