City safety & data profile

AustinTX

Austin, TX is a 974K-resident city in Travis County with a median household income of $93,658.

Travis County, Texas. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Austin, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Austin has a population larger than 99% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $555,300, and 15 hospitals serving the surrounding area.

Compiled by Areazine

Data updated 2026-09-04

974K
Population (place): Top 1%
By size: $93,658
Median income (place): $555,300
Median home (place): 12%
Poverty rate (place)

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The read on Austin

Austin posts a median household income higher than 64% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 3 recent safety alerts are on record and 15 hospitals serve the Austin area.

Top 36%
by median income, US cities: 3
safety alerts on record: 15
hospitals in & near Austin

Where Austin income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$93,658 Top 36% higher than 64% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year

Houston

2,314,157
San Antonio

1,526,656
Dallas

1,326,087
Fort Worth

1,008,106
Austin

974,447
El Paso

678,815
Arlington

388,125
Corpus Christi

316,239
Plano

283,558
Laredo

256,153

What this shows Houston is the largest TX city on this list; Southlake leads median income.

Southlake

$250,001
University P…

$250,001
West Univers…

$250,001
Bellaire

$244,015
Colleyville

$218,328
Trophy Club

$201,054
Prosper

$195,281
Lakeway

$190,060
Murphy

$175,699
Keller

$174,950

What this shows Southlake posts the highest place-level median income in TX; Houston is largest by headcount.

The quick read

Reading Austin, TX beyond the headline numbers

Austin sits inside Travis County, Texas, at roughly 30.27°N, -97.74°W. Population 974,447, $93,658 median household income. Median home value $555,300, median rent $1,729. Poverty rate 12%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

15 hospitals in/around Austin, 3.5/5 avg rating, 5 with an ER.

Poverty in Austin, TX stands at 12%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.

The median home in Austin costs around 5.9 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.

30.7% of Austin workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.

Among the CDC measures on this page, binge drinking departs furthest from its peer median: 20% in Austin, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.

Austin's median age is 34.7 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Austin from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.

Population (place)

974,447

Austin · Census Place

Median Income (place)

$93,658

+5% vs avg

Median Home Value (place)

$555,300

+34% vs avg

Median Age (place)

34.7

years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Travis County): Austin's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.

20132024

Population

1.3M+25%

Median Income

$99,611+72%

Median Home Value

$523,000+139%

Poverty Rate

10.9%-37%

Unemployment

4.6%-38%

Economics

Economics indicators for Austin, TX
Indicator	Value
Median Rent	$1,729/mo
Poverty Rate	12% -3% vs avg
Unemployment	4.7%
Bachelor's Degree+	59.6%
Work From Home	30.7%
Public Transit	2%

Population

White 55%

African American 7.6%

Asian 9.1%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration

32.1%

Obesity

30.1%

High Blood Pressure

24.4%

Physical Inactivity

20.1%

Binge Drinking

20%

Frequent Mental Distress

16.9%

Lack of Health Insurance

15.1%

Frequent Physical Distress

10.1%

Current Smoking

9.4%

Current Asthma

9.3%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 60.5%

Annual Checkup 71.3%

Other Measures

Diabetes

8.1%

Coronary Heart Disease

3.6%

Stroke

Hospitals 15 total

Rating Distribution

★★★★★

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Average Rating

3.5/5

Total Hospitals

With ER

DELL SETON MED CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TX

AUSTIN · Acute Care Hospitals

★★★★☆

ST DAVID'S MEDICAL CENTER