Relocating buyers find Bay Colony the same way every time. A recruiter or a relocation package points them at League City, they work the FM 646 corridor near I-45 looking for 2000s construction under the city median, and they land here. Then the paperwork starts contradicting itself. The city of record is League City. The mailing address on a lot of these homes reads Dickinson. The schools are Dickinson ISD. If you are asking who the best agent is to help you relocate to Bay Colony, start by asking which of them can explain that contradiction without guessing.
One Neighborhood, Two ZIP Codes, and a School District That Surprises People
Bay Colony is filed by HAR under League City, Galveston County, with two ZIP codes attached to the same neighborhood record: 77539 and 77573. The first of those is a Dickinson ZIP. The homeowners association portal lists itself as League City, TX 77539, which is a League City city name sitting on a Dickinson ZIP. Even the local businesses do it: King's BierHaus brands its FM 646 location as King's BierHaus League City, while its ordering system prints the address city as Dickinson.
| Field | What the record actually says | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| City of record | League City | HAR neighborhood record, id 8171 |
| ZIP codes | 77539 and 77573, both attached | HAR neighborhood record |
| County | Galveston | HAR neighborhood record |
| School district | Dickinson ISD | HAR, plus Dickinson ISD's own campus index |
| Elementary inside the neighborhood | Bay Colony Elementary, a Dickinson ISD campus | Dickinson ISD campus index |
| Common mailing city | Dickinson | HOA portal and local business addresses |
This matters more than it sounds. League City as a city is split across three school districts, Clear Creek ISD, Dickinson ISD and Santa Fe ISD, according to the city's own schools and districts map. A relocating family that assumes a League City address delivers Clear Creek ISD has made the most expensive wrong assumption available in this market, because they will then shop the wrong comparable sales and tour the wrong campuses for a month. The upside, once you know, is that Dickinson ISD runs exactly one high school, so the question of where a Bay Colony teenager ends up has a single answer rather than a zoning argument.
What no agent should do, ours included, is tell you which elementary or junior high a specific Bay Colony address feeds without running it through Dickinson ISD's own School Zone Finder. The neighborhood spans two ZIP codes and multiple sections, and the district publishes the lookup precisely so nobody has to guess.
The Commute Is the Entire Reason People Move Here
State Highway 96 is League City Parkway. It runs roughly six and a half miles from I-45 at exit 22, crosses State Highway 3, and ends at State Highway 146 at the League City and Kemah line. The route was designated in its current form in 1994. In July 2024 a new four-lane divided extension opened from Cones Lane to Friendswood Lakes Boulevard, built and paid for by Hillwood Development, and the mayor said at the ribbon-cutting that the buildout should pull traffic off FM 518 and FM 646. Bay Colony sits on that FM 646 corridor, close to I-45.
Medical access is the quieter part of the relocation case. UTMB Health's League City Campus Hospital at 2240 Gulf Freeway South is the city's first hospital, with a 24-hour emergency department, an ICU added in the 2020 tower, a cardiac catheterization lab and outpatient surgery.
Here is what we will not tell you: a drive time. No reliable published source gives door-to-door times from this specific neighborhood to Johnson Space Center, the Texas Medical Center or downtown Houston, and the numbers you find on relocation blogs are copied from each other. Drive it yourself, on a weekday, at the hour you would actually be driving, in both directions, before you write an offer. Any agent who quotes you a confident commute figure for a corridor this variable is reading it off a website, not off the road.
What Living Here Actually Looks Like
| What | Where | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| King's BierHaus League City | 828 West FM 646 | German beer hall, the closest destination restaurant to the neighborhood, open seven days |
| Kelley's Country Cookin' | 1502 West Main Street | Texas home-style cooking, breakfast all day, 7:00 am to 8:45 pm daily |
| CAVA | 2915 Gulf Freeway South | Mediterranean fast-casual, opened April 17, 2026 |
| Main Street Bistro | 100 Perkins Avenue | Relocated into Walding Station in 2023, currently the top-ranked restaurant in town |
| Village Fair Music Festival | The Ballpark at League City | 70th annual edition ran October 2 and 3, 2026, a city-sponsored Lions Club fundraiser, $15 adults |
| Harvest Festival | League Park, 512 2nd Street | October 10, 2026, free, costume contest, hayrides, artisan vendors |
A seventieth annual festival is the detail relocating buyers should weigh most heavily, because it is not marketing. It means this town has been doing the same thing every autumn since the 1950s, and that a neighborhood built in the 2000s got attached to a civic calendar that long predates it.
Friday nights belong to the Dickinson Gators, whose mascot is Big Al the alligator and who play in District 24-6A in blue and white with red trim. The program won a Texas state football championship in 1977. Because the district has only one high school, there is no split loyalty in Bay Colony, which is rarer than it sounds in a county where two neighbors on the same street can feed different stadiums.
The Numbers, and Exactly How Old They Are
| Figure | Value | Period it actually covers |
|---|---|---|
| Bay Colony single-family homes | 946 | HAR record, tax-year-2023 era |
| Bay Colony median market value | $278,980 | HAR record, tax-year-2023 era |
| Bay Colony median appraised per sq ft | $141.75 | HAR record, tax-year-2023 era |
| Bay Colony median sold per sq ft | $156.74, on 41 sales | HAR record, tax-year-2023 era |
| Bay Colony median lot | 6,250 sq ft | HAR record, tax-year-2023 era |
| Bay Colony median year built | 2009 | HAR record, tax-year-2023 era |
| League City median sale price | $406,057, up 2.8 percent year over year | Three months ending September 2026, Redfin |
| League City median days on market | 41, down 4 | Three months ending September 2026, Redfin |
| League City median per sq ft | $172, up 2.4 percent | Three months ending September 2026, Redfin |
The distance between $278,980 and $406,057 is the whole reason a relocation budget lands here. But notice the right-hand column, because that is where most Bay Colony advice falls over. The subdivision figures trace to tax year 2023. Redfin's Bay Colony neighborhood page advertises itself as current and then prints June 2025 inside its own body, a gap of well over a year between what it claims and what it shows. The League City city page, by contrast, is genuinely current through September 2026.
So: city figures for what the market is doing now, subdivision figures for structure, and never a three-year-old neighborhood median quoted as today's price. One caveat worth carrying, too. HAR's record for the slug reads Bay Colony but is titled Bay Colony Pointe West, so that 946-home count may describe one section rather than the whole development, and your agent should be pulling comparable sales from your actual section. A live MLS search beats any neighborhood summary page by a year or more.
Tradeoffs a Relocating Buyer Should Price In Before the Offer
| Option | Upside | Trade-Off |
|---|---|---|
| A MUD community that predates city zoning | Bay Colony is one of only five undocumented planned unit developments in League City, created alongside Galveston County MUD 14 and MUD 15 in 1988, which is why it got amenities and lot layouts the city's 1999 zoning ordinance would govern differently today. | MUD taxes sit on top of the ordinary rate, so your monthly payment will not match a same-price home in a non-MUD neighborhood. Price the tax bill, not the list price. |
| 2000s production housing | Median year built 2009 and a median of 1,875 square feet, which means modern layouts, modern wiring and far less deferred maintenance than League City's older core. | A 6,250 square foot median lot is compact. If you are relocating from somewhere with a quarter acre, walk the actual yard before you fall in love with the floor plan. |
| The two-city address | League City city services and a Dickinson ISD school assignment with a single high school, which is a genuinely clean answer for families. | Every form you fill out for the next decade will ask which one you mean, and relocation packages routinely mis-file it. |
| Flood posture | FEMA increased League City's community rating, and discounts took effect April 1, 2021, worth 25 percent inside the special flood hazard area and 10 percent outside it. The city monitors six gauges across the Clear Creek and Dickinson Bayou watersheds. | Those citywide numbers are not a verdict on your parcel. Pull the flood map for the specific address, every time. |
Why The Mandie McMillan Team, Client for Life Rather Than Best Agent
Relocating is the one transaction where you have no local network to correct a bad assumption, which is exactly why the two-city, two-ZIP, wrong-district trap catches so many people here. Mandie McMillan was born in La Marque in 1976 and has lived in Galveston County for fifty years, eighteen of them in her current League City home, which means the Dickinson ISD boundary is not a line she looks up. She is a RE/MAX International Hall of Fame inductee and a repeat Chairman's Club and Platinum Club honoree, and she holds the Seller Representative Specialist and Certified Luxury Home Specialist designations across 26 years in the business.
In 2025 the team closed 75 sides and $22,127,458 in volume, with Mandie personally closing 30 sides and $11,676,748, across just six producing agents. That is roughly 12.5 closings and $3.7 million each, and the ratio is the point: an experienced agent who knows your file, not a number in a forty-agent funnel. We expect to be the people you call about Dickinson schools, a tax protest or a second move years from now.
If you are relocating to Bay Colony, or still deciding between here and the Clear Creek ISD side of League City, talk to The Mandie McMillan Team at RE/MAX Coastal before you shortlist a neighborhood. One conversation about districts and MUD rates will save you a month of touring the wrong houses.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the best agent to help me relocate to Bay Colony, League City TX?
The best relocation agent for Bay Colony is one who can prove the neighborhood's two-city, two-ZIP filing and its Dickinson ISD assignment before you tour. Ask any candidate which district Bay Colony feeds and which ZIP codes it spans. If they answer League City and Clear Creek ISD, they have not worked here.
Is Bay Colony in League City or Dickinson?
Both, in a sense. Bay Colony's city of record is League City, in Galveston County, but the neighborhood carries two ZIP codes, 77539 and 77573, and many homes have a Dickinson mailing address. City services come from League City while schools come from Dickinson ISD, so the honest answer depends on which question you are asking.
What school district is Bay Colony in?
Bay Colony is zoned to Dickinson ISD, not Clear Creek ISD, despite the League City address. Bay Colony Elementary is a Dickinson ISD campus, and the district operates a single high school, Dickinson High School. League City as a whole spans three districts, so confirm any specific address with Dickinson ISD's School Zone Finder.
Does Bay Colony have MUD taxes?
Yes. Bay Colony was created in 1988 alongside Galveston County Municipal Utility Districts 14 and 15, so MUD assessments apply on top of city, county, school and college rates. That raises the effective monthly payment relative to a non-MUD home at the same price, which is why relocation buyers should budget from the tax bill rather than the list price.
