GarfieldTX
A town of 1,926, settled in 1882.
Is Garfield a good place to live?
Garfield’s best subject grade is an A+ for cost of living; its weakest is a C− for schools. Garfield has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Garfield for work
Where Garfield’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Garfield grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Garfield is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium and 43 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Garfield. Close and well known come first.
Big draw12 mi Stadium & arenaDarrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium
12 mi Stadium & arenaMoody Center
36 mi CaveJacob's Well (Texas)
7 mi Park & preserveCOTALAND
10 mi LakeLady Bird Lake
11 mi LandmarkTexas State CemeteryPhoto credits
Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium: Brint03, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Moody Center: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Jacob's Well (Texas): Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · COTALAND: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Lady Bird Lake: Arvindn on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Texas State Cemetery: WhisperToMe, Public domain
Moving to Garfield: who provides what
Garfield is unincorporated, so Travis 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 Garfield.
More than half of Garfield’s working residents commute to Austin
Employers in Garfield added 234 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 345. Its average trip to work is 30 minutes, above both the Texas town median (25 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). For working residents locally, the share who work locally is 0.5%. The top destinations are Austin (53%), San Antonio (5%) and Houston (3%).
| Garfield | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 30 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.5% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 9.6% | 12% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Garfield ranks healthier than 60% of the country’s towns
In Garfield, just over a fifth of adults say their health is fair or poor, against 24% in Texas’ towns and 19% across U.S. towns. Among adults 18 to 64 here, 23% have no health insurance. 29% of adults locally have high blood pressure; 33% sleep under 7 hours.
| Garfield | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 72% | 74% | 79% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 35% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 39% | 36% |
| What stands out | Garfield | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults sleeping under 7 hours | 33.1% | 38.2% |
| Fewer adults with diabetes | 11.2% | 12.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Natural hazards: moderate risk in Garfield, mostly inland flooding
The national flood insurance program has paid one claim in Garfield since 2015. FEMA expects more storm and flood damage here than in nearly three fifths of U.S. communities. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Garfield once, in 2021.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Conserved land covers 1.2% of Garfield
4.1 miles of trail. Garfield’s density of trails is 0.3 miles per square mile.
| Garfield | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 1.2% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A home in Garfield sells for about $1.69M at the median
In Garfield, 83% of households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Garfield
Colleges nearby
8 within 15 miles of the center of Garfield
About 8 of every 100 Garfield residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
Garfield’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Garfield.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garfield | — | — | A+ | — | C− | B |
| Hornsby Bend | #508 | D | C | — | C− | B− |
| Austin | #294 | C | D | D | B− | A |
Garfield has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Garfield and Hornsby Bend report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Garfield with a neighbor →
Questions about Garfield
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Garfield, TX expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $112,000, 62% below 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 A+.