78725Hornsby Bend, Texas

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 78725.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 11% of 6,210 ZIP areas measured77
Housing affordabilityTop 47% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured82
Climate3936th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured68
Physical resilienceTop 30% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured75
AccessTop 43% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured95
Economic stabilityTop 7% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured83
The quick read

78725 ranks in the top 11% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.0% and median household income of $105,795.

Rent takes 25% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.1 times that income.

A major airport is 4 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
10,746
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$105,795
Top 16% nationally
Density
608/sq mi
17.7 sq mi of land
Median age
36.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Hornsby Bend
Texas
Metro area
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
Nearest major airport
AUS
4 mi · Austin-Bergstrom Intl
Median home value
$330,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.0% is lower than 68% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 0.1% over the past year, to 842,590 employed residents.

35% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 73% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$14,837$105,795Top 16%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$6,235$49,595Top 20%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.0%Bottom 36%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute34.8 minTop 18%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher34.7%Top 27%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment842,590Top 6%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)4.7%Top 6%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.1%Top 28%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force877,599Top 6%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation81.7%Top 3%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$74,580Top 25%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$56,950Top 24%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.6%Top 24%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.0%Bottom 32%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024106k78k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $105,795 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers42,190$117,850
Fast Food and Counter Workers35,000$29,310
Customer Service Representatives32,690$43,720
Software Developers31,960$134,120
Retail Salespersons29,660$33,860
Stockers and Order Fillers27,430$37,720

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Hornsby Bend, TX, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 14.5 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
1
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
2019-20 school year
Reading proficiency
2019-20 school year
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
DAILEY MIDDLEDEL VALLE ISD76714.537%47%

92.3% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Texas’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $2,232 takes 25% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.1 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
25.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,232
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$330,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.12Top 49%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate76.7%Bottom 45%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4964,398Top 30%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$148$2,232Top 5%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$36,162$330,600Top 29%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income25.3%Top 14%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate1.1%Bottom 7%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 96°F and January a low of 38°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 35.6 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 52, in the Moderate band, and about 7 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station AUSTIN BERGSTROM AP, 5.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index80.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation35.6"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low38°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high96°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10072024 calendar year
Median air quality index52.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing35°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
52
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
80
90th percentile index
Days above 100
7
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

75 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hail, strong wind and landslide.

HailHigh
Strong windModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, heat wave, inland flooding, lightning, wildfire, cold wave, ice storm, winter weather, hurricane, earthquake, drought.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Travis County records 4.8 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 12.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 17.7 per 100,000 residents in Travis County.

Homicide
4.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
17.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
14.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Travis County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 78725 rather than 78725 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 4 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Austin-Bergstrom IntlAUS4 mi12,250 ft
San Antonio IntlSAT70 mi8,505 ft
Tstc WacoCNW102 mi8,600 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

78725 vs Hornsby Bend

How this ZIP area compares with Hornsby Bend as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

78725
Hornsby Bend
Median household income
$105,795
vs
$89,614
Per capita income
$49,595
vs
$41,509
Population density
608/sq mi
vs
1,316/sq mi
Median home value
$330,600
vs
$314,900
Median gross rent
$2,232
vs
$2,147
Homeownership rate
76.7%
vs
73.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
34.7%
vs
32.5%
Poverty rate
8.0%
vs
15.0%
Median age
36.9
vs
34.5

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.