BelterraTX
Home to 6,978 people, this town lies in Texas.
Is Belterra a good place to live?
A good place to live, if you can afford it. Its strongest subject is health: CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 97% of the country. Belterra’s overall grade of A− puts it better than 83% of U.S. towns, 25th of 640 in Texas. The catch is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $773K, 7.7 years of the Austin metro’s $100K median household income. It also trails on walkability. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. 66% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in the town, against 23% in Texas’ towns and 29% across U.S. towns. Only 6 of the 642 Texas towns we compare have a higher share of households owning their home than Belterra.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24.
What makes Belterra stand out
Where Belterra beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Belterra for work
Where Belterra’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Belterra grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Belterra is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium and 45 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Belterra. Close and well known come first.
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaDarrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium
14 mi CaveJacob's Well (Texas)
17 mi Stadium & arenaMoody Center
17 mi LakeLady Bird Lake
14 mi LakeLake Austin
15 mi LakeLake TravisPhoto credits
Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium: Brint03, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jacob's Well (Texas): Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Moody Center: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Lady Bird Lake: Arvindn on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lake Austin: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Lake Travis: Trey Perry, CC BY 3.0
Moving to Belterra: who provides what
Belterra is unincorporated, so Hays County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Belterra.
Belterra has schools in the top 5% of Texas, has less food insecurity than most of Texas and has more 90° days than nearly all U.S. towns.
Belterra keeps 12.3% of its land conserved
Count the trails in 1 park or preserve and they come to 4.0 miles. Belterra’s trail network density is 1.7 miles per square mile. Also worth knowing: it has one park or preserve, 10 acres in all.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Belterra Recreation Center | 0.1 mi | 10 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Public schools in Belterra beat 89% of Texas districts
Its A ranks #29 of the 642 Texas towns we grade for schools. Its A for schools comes with a C− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $773K.
Its one school is below. The public schools here belong to Dripping Springs ISD. Enrollment at Belterra’s public school: 772 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rooster Springs ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 772 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
A smaller share of adults get no exercise outside work in Belterra than in most of Texas or the rest of the country
Its widest gap with Texas is food insecurity: 7.1% of its 4,007 adults worry about having enough food, against 19.3% statewide. Against the 726 U.S. towns with household incomes like Belterra’s, it is less healthy than 56%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
For adults in Belterra, the share who binge drink is 20%. CDC measures, 31 in all: Belterra beats Texas on 21 and trails on 1.
| Belterra | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9.1% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 30% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 24% | 19% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 7.9% | 13% | 12% |
| What stands out | Belterra | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.1% | 19.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.2% | 19.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 7.4% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Belterra stands out in Texas and nationally: the median household income there is higher
Belterra has 239 jobs for its 3,161 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. 37.1% of workers work from home, against 14.4% across Texas.
For half of commuters, work is under 16 miles away. Among residents in Belterra, 1.5% live below the poverty line. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs locally rose by 143, to 239. Its typical journey to work stands at 29 minutes.
| Belterra | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 37% | 9.6% | 11% |
| Median household income | $220,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 1.5% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.9% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers in Belterra
The Dripping Springs 6 E weather station records that about 106 days a year reach 90°, more than in 96% of U.S. towns. July afternoons average 94.5°, hotter than in 95% of U.S. towns; January nights average 39.3°.
Belterra’s January low comes in at 39°F. Snow almost never falls.
| Belterra | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 39°F | 37°F | 22°F |
| July high | 95°F | 95°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Top of a low hazard risk in Belterra: inland flooding
Compared with just over three fifths of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in Belterra is lower. FEMA puts 48% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 24% to tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median home in Belterra sells for about $693K
At 7.7 years of the Austin metro’s $100K median household income, the typical home costs more against local pay than in 95% of Texas towns; that ratio is one input to its C− for cost of living.
In Belterra, the typical rent is $2,845 a month. 99% of households own their home in the town. A home in Belterra typically sold within 37 days of listing.
| Belterra | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,845 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 99% | 69% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Belterra
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Belterra
About 2 of every 100 Belterra residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
About Belterra
Census-designated place in Texas, United States
Belterra is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hays County, Texas, United States, with a land mass of approximately 3.4 square miles. It is 18 miles (29 km) southwest of downtown Austin. Belterra, Texas had a population of 6,170 at the time of the 2020 census. Belterra, Texas is bordered by Highway 290 on the north side, Mesa Verde Drive and Sand Hills Lane to the south, Sawyer Ranch Road to the west, and Nutty Brown Road to the east. Belterra is located in the Dripping Springs Independent School District. Belterra is located in the Extra Territorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) of the city of Dripping Springs, Texas.
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- Area
- 2.3 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,096 ft
Belterra’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Belterra.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belterra | #25 | A− | C− | — | A | A+ |
| Dripping Springs | #36 | A− | D− | — | A | A |
Belterra and Dripping Springs report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Belterra with a neighbor →
Questions about Belterra
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Belterra, TX a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Belterra grades A− overall, better than 83% of U.S. towns and #25 of 640 in Texas. It grades A+ for health and A for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Belterra, TX expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $773,000, 161% above the Texas typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.