Influencers in Houston: 128 Instagram creators with measured engagement (2026)

This page lists 128 Instagram creators whose bio names Houston, with the follower count, engagement rate and median Reel views we measured for each one. Virev's crawler read their profiles and recent posts between August 19, 2026 and September 30, 2026. The median creator here has 13,531 followers and an engagement rate of 2.21%, which is below the 2.56% median across the 65 lists in this series and ranks 54th of 65.

Creators in Houston by follower count

Nano and micro accounts tie as the largest groups, at 52 of 128 creators each. Among tiers with 5 or more creators, nano creators get the highest median engagement rate, 4.33%, against 0.70% for mid-tier creators, so a typical nano post draws 6.2 times the response per follower. Reach grows with size, and the median mid-tier creator's Reels get 47,986 views, against 3,005 for nano creators.

The 20 biggest creators in Houston

These are the largest accounts on the list, sorted by followers at our read. The biggest is Evan Cabell with 1,083,486 followers and a 5.87% engagement rate.

20 high-engagement creators in Houston with 10K to 100K followers

These are the 20 creators with 10,000 to 100,000 followers and the highest engagement rates on the list. The median across all 52 creators in that range is 1.90%, and 8 of these 20 reach at least twice that. We also left out 20 creators with no measured Reel views, or whose average likes and comments beat their median Reel views, since we could not check their rate against reach. A high rate can also come from comment prompts, so open a few recent posts before you reach out.

What creators in Houston post about

The most common profile category is Digital creator, on 11 accounts (9% of those with a category), followed by Houston food and restaurant discovery with 5. The category is the one the creator or Virev's profile reader set, so treat it as a starting filter.

How we built this list

1. We started from 39,669 individual Instagram creators with at least 1,000 followers and 6 measured posts, read by Virev's crawler between August 18 and October 7, 2026. Brands, media pages and businesses are not on the list.
2. A creator is on this page when their Instagram bio or display name names Houston, such as a city, a region or a flag, and the country in their Virev profile does not name another country. We removed accounts that name the place only inside another account's handle, an email address, or a team or event name, such as a baseball club or a marathon.
3. The engagement rate is average likes plus comments on the 6 to 12 most recent feed posts, divided by followers at the read.
4. Median Reel views is the median play count of the creator's last 12 Reels, and it shows n/a when fewer than 3 Reels had a play count. 74 of the 128 creators have one.
5. These 128 creators were read between August 19, 2026 and September 30, 2026, and follower counts move after that, so check the live profile before you send an offer.
6. The page shows public profile numbers only, with no emails or phone numbers.

More creator lists

Lists built the same way: Food influencers in Houston, Influencers in the US, Influencers in Texas, Influencers in Las Vegas, Influencers in Philadelphia, Influencers in Boston. Related reading: Average Instagram followers, Influencer rates 2026, NYC influencers. For hand-picked lists with a recent post per creator, see micro and nano influencers.

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