Neighborhood Guide
Sienna Neighborhood Guide: The Former Sienna Plantation in Missouri City, TX 77459
Updated September 2026
Bottom line: Sienna is a master-planned community of about 10,800 acres in Fort Bend County, called Sienna Plantation until 2019, with 20,204 residents in its 2020 census area. Its median sale price was $512,500 as of September 2026.
What is Sienna?
A master-planned community in eastern Fort Bend County, southwest of Houston, with the Brazos River along its western side. Its developer, Johnson Development, puts it at 10,800 acres, and describes it as a community in Missouri City, though most of it is outside Missouri City's limits. The Census Bureau counted 20,204 residents in the Sienna census-designated place, the area it draws for statistics, in April 2020.
Sienna is built in sections, each with its own name, and the sections belong to different utility districts with different tax rates. Two sections, Sienna Point and Sienna Acreage Estates, are built on lots of about an acre or more, by the figures of HAR, the Houston Association of Realtors. The community's own amenities include the district-run Camp Sienna, a 160-acre sports park by the developer's count.
Why was Sienna Plantation renamed Sienna?
The land has a long history as a sugar and cotton plantation. The Handbook of Texas records that Jonathan D. Waters bought the tract in 1840, that Houston's Thomas W. House and later Thomas H. Scanlan owned it, and that in the 1950s and 1960s the Cenacle Sisters ran a retreat there and chose the name Sienna Plantation, after the Siena area of Tuscany. Developers sought approval for a planned community on the land by 1978, and in the mid-1980s the Johnson Corporation began building homes, roads and a ten-mile levee.
The developer began shortening the name in May 2019 and, in an update in June 2020, said it was removing Plantation from the monument signs because removing language that could be hurtful to others is the right thing to do. The levee district followed: the state approved its change from Sienna Plantation Levee Improvement District to its current name in June 2021. Older records, such as the district's own 2018 Harvey report, still carry the old name, so search for both.
Is Sienna part of Missouri City?
Its homes are addressed to Missouri City, but most of Sienna lies in Missouri City's extraterritorial jurisdiction, where the city levies no property tax. On August 21, 2023, Missouri City annexed Sienna MUD 2, whose sections now pay the city's rate. Parts of MUDs 3, 10 and 12 are also inside the city by those districts' own descriptions. The page on which parts of Sienna are in Missouri City sets out the annexation and how to check a lot.
What does a Sienna tax bill add up to?
For tax year 2025, a home in the levee district paid Fort Bend ISD, Fort Bend County with its drainage fund, and the levee district, $1.8914 on each $100 of value together. The utility district on top ranged from $0.3975 in MUD 3 to $1.05 in MUDs 6 and 7, so the total ran from about $2.29 to $2.94. The annexed former MUD 2 sections pay the city's $0.570825 in place of a MUD.
Several districts still have most of their voter-approved bonds left to sell, which can move a rate later. The page on Sienna property taxes by utility district has every unit, every district and each district's bond balance.
Is Sienna behind a levee?
Most of it is. The Sienna Parks & Levee Improvement District runs two levee systems, 20.1 miles in all, that keep the Brazos out when it rises, with flood gates and pump stations to move rain out over the levee while the gates are closed. The district has its own tax, $0.4125 per $100 for 2025 and 2026, and it also runs the parks.
During Hurricane Harvey the levees held, and the district's engineers still counted 73 homes with water damage from rain that fell inside the system. Voters approved $139 million in November 2018 for more pumping, storage and gates. The page on the Sienna levee district covers the tax, the bonds, Harvey and flood insurance.
What does the Fort Bend Parkway cost from Sienna?
The Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road starts at Sienna Parkway and runs north to US-90A. The Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority operates the 6.2 miles from Sienna Parkway to Beltway 8, with main-lane plazas at Sienna Parkway, Lake Olympia, McHard and Fondren, and north of Beltway 8 the parkway belongs to Harris County's toll authority. With a toll tag, a two-axle car pays $0.51 at each of the first three plazas and $0.77 at Fondren, $2.30 for all four.
The authority takes no cash and offers no pay by mail, so a car on the parkway needs an electronic tag such as EZ TAG or TxTag. The toll authority publishes no drive time from Sienna, so this page gives none: drive the route at the time of day you would actually commute before you count on it.
Which schools serve Sienna?
Fort Bend ISD, and several of its campuses are inside the community. The utility districts that describe their boundaries, MUDs 3, 4, 10 and 12, each say they lie entirely within Fort Bend ISD. The developer lists Donald Leonetti, Jan Schiff, Sienna Crossing, Scanlan Oaks and Alyssa Ferguson elementary schools, Billy Baines, First Colony and Ronald Thornton middle schools, and Ridge Point, Hightower and Almeta Crawford high schools.
Zones change as campuses open. Crawford High opened in August 2023 on FM 521 near Sienna Parkway, and Ferguson Elementary opened the same month. Check the assigned campus for a specific address with Fort Bend ISD's own lookup before trusting a list or a listing.
What does this guide leave to each address's own records?
Three answers that change from lot to lot: which schools a house is zoned to, which units tax it and which flood zone FEMA puts it in. Fort Bend ISD's attendance lookup, the Fort Bend Central Appraisal District's parcel record and the FEMA map panel settle them. Nor does this guide time the commute, since the toll authority publishes no travel time, or forecast whether Missouri City will annex more of Sienna.
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What else should you know about Sienna?
The Sienna Levee District: What It Protects, What It Taxes and What Harvey Showed
Most of Sienna sits inside 20.1 miles of levee run by the Sienna Parks & Levee Improvement District, which levied $0.4125 per $100 for 2025 and again for 2026. Whether a lender requires flood cover is read from the lot's FEMA map.
Sienna Property Taxes by Utility District: 2025 Rates, the Levee Tax and Bonds Not Yet Sold
For tax year 2025, Fort Bend ISD, the county, its drainage fund, the levee district and a Sienna utility district came to between $2.29 and $2.94 on each $100 of value, depending on the district. Missouri City adds its rate inside its limits.
Which Parts of Sienna Are in Missouri City? The 2023 Annexation and the Rest of the Map
Sienna homes are addressed to Missouri City, but most of Sienna lies in Missouri City's extraterritorial jurisdiction. The city annexed the former MUD 2 sections on August 21, 2023, and smaller parts of MUDs 3, 10 and 12 are inside its limits.
Questions & answers
Sienna questions, answered
What is Sienna in Missouri City, Texas?
Sienna is a master-planned community in eastern Fort Bend County, southwest of Houston, with the Brazos River along its west side. Its developer, Johnson Development, puts it at 10,800 acres. It was called Sienna Plantation until the developer shortened the name, starting in May 2019. Its homes carry Missouri City addresses.
Most of Sienna sits outside the Missouri City limits, in Missouri City's extraterritorial jurisdiction; the city annexed the former MUD 2 sections in 2023. A levee district keeps the Brazos out and taxes most of the community, and the sections are split among six utility districts with their own tax rates. Sienna is in Fort Bend ISD. The Census Bureau counted 20,204 residents in the Sienna census-designated place in 2020.
Is Sienna the same place as Sienna Plantation?
Yes. Sienna Plantation is the community's former name. The developer began shortening it to Sienna in May 2019 and in June 2020 said it was taking Plantation off the monument signs because removing language that could be hurtful is the right thing to do. The levee district changed its own name in 2021.
The Handbook of Texas records that the land was a sugar and cotton plantation from 1840, and that the Cenacle Sisters, who ran a retreat there in the 1950s and 1960s, chose the name Sienna Plantation after the Siena area of Tuscany. Older documents, listings and maps still use the old name, and some districts' records filed before the change carry it. Search for both names when you pull records on a house.
What county and city is Sienna in?
Sienna is in Fort Bend County. Its homes are addressed to Missouri City, but most of the community lies in Missouri City's extraterritorial jurisdiction, where the city levies no property tax. The city annexed the former Sienna MUD 2 sections on August 21, 2023, and small parts of MUDs 3, 10 and 12 are inside its limits too.
The difference shows up on the tax bill. A home inside the city pays Missouri City's rate, $0.570825 per $100 for 2025, and a home in the extraterritorial jurisdiction pays none. Every Sienna utility district says on its notice to purchasers that it lies wholly or partly in that jurisdiction. The parcel's account with the Fort Bend Central Appraisal District lists the city where it applies, and that record settles it for one house.
What is Sienna's population?
The 2020 Census counted 20,204 residents in the Sienna census-designated place, an area the Census Bureau draws for statistics that does not follow the developer's boundary or the city line exactly. It is the most recent full count for the community, taken in April 2020.
The census place takes in about 12.9 square miles of land in the bureau's 2020 gazetteer. The developer counts the whole master plan at 10,800 acres, which is about 16.9 square miles, so the two areas are not the same. Before relying on a Sienna population figure, ask which of the three it measures: the census place, the master plan or a ZIP code.
How much is the toll on the Fort Bend Parkway from Sienna?
With a toll tag, a two-axle car pays $0.51 at the Sienna Parkway, Lake Olympia and McHard plazas and $0.77 at Fondren, $2.30 if it passes all four. The Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority runs these 6.2 miles from Sienna Parkway to Beltway 8, and the Harris County Toll Road Authority runs the parkway north of Beltway 8.
Each plaza charges more per axle, and a vehicle without a valid tag is charged the higher violation rate, $1.02 at the Sienna Parkway plaza. The parkway runs from Sienna Parkway north to US-90A, with interchanges at Highway 6, Lake Olympia Parkway, McHard Road and Beltway 8. The toll authority publishes no travel time from Sienna, so time the trip at the hour you would make it.
Can I pay the Fort Bend Parkway toll by mail?
No. The Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority says it offers no pay by mail and no video tolling, and it was the first toll agency in the United States to take cash out of all its lanes. A car on the parkway needs an electronic toll tag from a Texas agency, such as an EZ TAG, TxTag or TollTag.
Driving the road without a valid tag is a violation that can bring a citation and extra fees, according to the authority. A driver who uses it once by accident can call the authority's violation payment center to make a one-time payment. Tags from the Kansas and Oklahoma turnpike authorities are accepted as well.
What school district is Sienna in?
Fort Bend ISD. The Sienna utility districts that describe their boundaries each say they lie entirely within it, and several of its campuses are inside the community. The developer lists five elementary schools, three middle schools and three high schools that serve Sienna, among them Sienna Crossing Elementary, Baines Middle School and Ridge Point High School.
The developer's list also includes Leonetti, Schiff, Scanlan Oaks and Ferguson elementaries, First Colony and Thornton middle schools, and Hightower and Crawford high schools. Which of them serves one house depends on the address, and the district redraws zones as it opens campuses, so confirm the assignment with Fort Bend ISD's attendance lookup before relying on a listing. Fort Bend ISD levied $1.0569 on each $100 of value for 2025 and adopted $0.9969 for 2026.
Which new schools have opened in Sienna?
Almeta Crawford High School opened in August 2023 on FM 521 near Sienna Parkway, and the developer says it serves many of Sienna's newer neighborhoods. Alyssa Ferguson Elementary opened the same month as the community's eighth school on site, and Ronald Thornton Middle School opened in August 2018, both by the developer's account.
New campuses bring new attendance zones, so a house's assigned school can change after a sale. The developer's list names Crawford, Hightower and Ridge Point as the high schools serving Sienna, and which one a particular house is zoned to comes from Fort Bend ISD's lookup for that address. Check it again close to closing if a boundary vote is under way.
How much is the Sienna HOA fee?
The developer lists 2026 dues of $1,580 a year for homes in the non-gated neighborhoods, and says townhome and duplex assessments vary, to be checked with the builder. The Sienna Residential Association and the Sienna Community Association have offices in the community, and their duties include keeping up common areas and enforcing deed restrictions.
The HOA dues are separate from the property tax, and the parks the levee district runs, including Camp Sienna, belong to that district, which funds them through its tax and its rental fees. Gated sections may carry their own assessments. Ask the seller for the resale certificate and the association's current budget during the option period, while you can still back out of the contract. Read the deed restrictions for the section too, which govern fences, additions and other changes to a lot.
Who runs Camp Sienna?
The Sienna Parks & Levee Improvement District. The same district that runs the levees also runs Camp Sienna, sets its hours and rents out its fields and facilities, and part of its property tax pays for its parks. The developer describes Camp Sienna as a 160-acre sports park. A 2017 state law caps the district's park debt.
House Bill 2938 of 2017 lets the district's outstanding park debt reach 2% of the taxable value in the district, and 1% for bonds its voters approved before 2017 unless they approve more. The district's notice to purchasers shows $49 million in recreational bonds authorized and $45,435,000 issued. Rentals go through the district's park program manager, not the homeowners association.