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Rice Village is a shopping district in Houston, Texas, United States. Rice Village is a collection of shops, restaurants and pubs, situated about a half mile west of the center of Rice University's campus. The core "Rice Village" extends over several city blocks, bounded by University Boulevard, Kirby Drive, Tangley Street, Morningside Drive, Rice Boulevard, and Greenbriar Drive, though spillover has expanded the retail area to encompass businesses as far north as Bissonnet Street.

Rice Village began operations in 1938. It is an unplanned, high density hodge podge of old and new retail stores. David Kaplan of Cite wrote that during the 1950s and 1960s Rice Village "filled up and prospered" but the economic boom in Greater Houston in the 1970s caused development to come elsewhere. He credited the influx of young families in Southgate and Southampton in Houston and the City of West University Place, beginning in the 1980s, to revitalizing Rice Village. The first minutes of the 1994 film The Chase were filmed in the Rice Village.

The Village Arcade occupies an area bounded by Kirby Drive, Amherst, Morningside, and University. The development also occupies most of the block bounded by Kelvin, Amherst, Times, and Morningside.

Rice Village is a part of the West University Place Super Neighborhood Council. Rice Village is in Texas's 7th congressional district.

The neighborhood is within the Houston Police Department's South Central Patrol Division.

In the mid 20th century the community newspaper Southwestern Times was headquartered in Rice Village.