Market Intelligence · Houston, TX · Property & Casualty

The independent insurance market in Houston

2,519 P&C-licensed agencies operate in Houston — 99.6% still independent, 7 owned by consolidation platforms. Here’s how the market is structured.

Agencies

2,519

P&C-licensed in metro

Still independent

99.6%

2,510 agencies

Platform-owned

0.3%

7 agencies

With active appointments

2,028

carrier-appointed agencies

How Houston is structured

Carrier appointments measure an agency’s scale and reach. A market with a long tail of single-carrier agencies is fragmented — the structural signature of one that hasn’t consolidated yet.

median carrier appointments

per agency

135

single-carrier agencies

7% of appointed agencies

0.3%

consolidation penetration

platform-owned share

Houston is effectively greenfield — 99.6% of agencies remain independent, and 7% of appointed agencies carry just one carrier. The fragmentation runway is wide and largely unconsolidated.

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Public records only

Built from state licensing and carrier-appointment records — never from any agency’s private book.

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Other Texas markets

Dallas–Fort Worth

2,788 agencies · 0.3% owned

Austin

729 agencies · 0.0% owned

San Antonio

655 agencies · 0.6% owned

Built entirely from public records — State licensing and carrier-appointment registries (FL DFS, TX TDI), Pexara vertical-data store. Retrieved 2026-07-02. No individual agency is named on these pages. Counts are of licensed agency entities with P&C qualification, assigned to metro by county of record. Platform-owned = agencies identified as owned by a consolidation platform; the remainder are independent. Figures are a point-in-time snapshot; week-over-week movement is available only from 2026-06-12 forward.