Lakeway, Texas

Area Profile

19,307 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Lakeway, in Travis County.

73out of 100
Area Score
Top 11% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 6% of 3,904 published cities81
SchoolsTop 13% of 2,668 published cities81
Growth1837th of 2,973 published cities44
Housing affordabilityTop 48% of 4,223 published cities82
Climate2588th of 4,223 published cities67
Physical resilienceTop 31% of 4,182 published cities74
Access2805th of 4,226 published cities87
Economic stabilityTop 46% of 4,226 published cities62
The quick read

Lakeway ranks in the top 6% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.0% and median household income of $190,060.

Residential permitting has slowed: 50 units authorized over the past twelve months, 21% below the prior year.

Rent takes 19% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.4 times that income.

At a glance

Population
19,307
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$190,060
Top 2% nationally
Density
1,500/sq mi
12.9 sq mi of land
Median age
49.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Travis County
Texas
Metro area
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
Nearest major airport
AUS
22 mi · Austin-Bergstrom Intl
Median home value
$841,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.0% is lower than 62% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

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

74% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 97% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 98% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$14,514$190,060Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$10,351$106,890Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate2.5%Bottom 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute29.3 minTop 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher74.0%Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment842,590Top 5%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)4.7%Top 7%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.1%Top 28%June 2026
Labor force877,599Top 5%June 2026
Labor force participation56.9%Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$74,580Top 30%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$56,950Top 29%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.6%Top 23%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.0%Bottom 38%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024190k143k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $190,060 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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Travis County, TX, which contains this city.

53% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 56% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.6 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
53.4%
Top 17% in Texas
Reading proficiency
55.8%
Top 12% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
HUDSON BEND MIDDLELAKE TRAVIS ISD80614.469%62%
LAKE TRAVIS ELLAKE TRAVIS ISD73714.730%42%
LAKEWAY ELLAKE TRAVIS ISD52414.662%66%

31.7% 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 $2,981 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.4 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
18.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,981
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$841,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.43Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate86.3%Top 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3138,561Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$690$2,981Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$48,099$841,300Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.8%Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.5%Bottom 45%2024 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 →
Development Momentum
44/ 100
Ranks 1837 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is broadly steady, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has fallen 1% since 2020, reaching 19,056 in 2024.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 2.6 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
50
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.6
Top 47% nationally
Year over year
−21%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202420k19k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
2020202220232024202532754
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−83%).

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 97°F and January a low of 42°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 36.3 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-CAMP MABRY, 13.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index80.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation36.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low42°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high97°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10072024 calendar year
Median air quality index52.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing34°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

74 / 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. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. 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 Lakeway rather than Lakeway 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
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. 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.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 22 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Austin-Bergstrom IntlAUS22 mi12,250 ft
San Antonio IntlSAT64 mi8,505 ft
Tstc WacoCNW104 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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Other cities in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
AustinTravis County979,53969vs Lakeway
Round RockWilliamson County127,78673vs Lakeway
GeorgetownWilliamson County85,99972vs Lakeway
Cedar ParkWilliamson County78,30175vs Lakeway
LeanderTravis County74,06779vs Lakeway
San MarcosHays County70,89757vs Lakeway
PflugervilleTravis County65,97175vs Lakeway
KyleHays County56,82370vs Lakeway
HuttoWilliamson County35,48375vs Lakeway
Brushy CreekWilliamson County19,576vs Lakeway
Steiner RanchTravis County18,619vs Lakeway
ManorTravis County18,60368vs Lakeway

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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
2019-20 school year; 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.

ZIP codes in Lakeway

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
7873422,145$130,78472