Beasley, Texas
Beasley is a small city in Fort Bend County, southwest of Houston in the flat coastal-prairie farmland of the lower Brazos country, about 19 miles west of Sugar Land. The surrounding countryside has long been agricultural, and the community sits amid the row-crop and pasture land that spreads across this part of the county.
Place essentials
Official Census snapshot- Census place type
- City
- July 2025 population
- 894
- Change from 2020 base
- +47.3%
- Land area
- 1.1 sq. mi.
- County footprint
- Fort Bend County
Place type, county footprint, and land area use the Census Bureau's January 1, 2025 geography. Population uses Vintage 2025 estimates through July 1, 2025; change compares that estimate with the April 1, 2020 estimates base. Geography file | Population file
Property here runs through the appraisal district and tax office for Fort Bend County. The homestead exemption, appraisal cap, protests, and any MUD, PID, or special districts all sit at the parcel level.
Official routes
Use the office for the parcel address; a mailing city is not always the governing city.
County context
What to know around Beasley
County lines carry much of the property, land, water, and outdoors context around Beasley.
County Origins
Fort Bend County was founded in 1837 and named for a bend in the Brazos River
Fort Bend County gets its name from a small cabin settlement built near a sharp curve in the Brazos River in the 1820s.
Property Tax Basics
Two offices handle your property tax in Fort Bend County
The appraisal district sets your home's value; the tax assessor-collector sends the bill and takes payment.
Plantation History
Fort Bend County was one of Texas's major plantation and slavery counties
By 1860, Fort Bend County had more enslaved people than white residents, making it one of the heaviest slaveholding counties in Texas.
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