LakehillsTX
A town of 6,130. 74% more library visits per person than the typical Texas town.
Is Lakehills a good place to live?
Lakehills grades D overall, ranked 572nd of 640 in Texas. Lakehills’ typical journey to work is 50 minutes, above both Texas’ towns (25 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 90% of U.S. towns. Lakehills has 1 place on the National Register.
What makes Lakehills stand out
Where Lakehills beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Lakehills for work
Where Lakehills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Lakehills grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Lakehills is from typical.
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Moving to Lakehills: who provides what
Lakehills is unincorporated, so Bandera 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 Lakehills.
Lakehills is a second-home town and has hotter summers than nearly all U.S. towns, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Texas (mostly inland flooding).
About two in five of Lakehills’ working residents commute to San Antonio
Lakehills has 180 jobs for its 2,342 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 49.9 minutes, against 26.7 across Texas.
The top destinations are San Antonio (38%), Bandera (5%) and Boerne (4%). For most workers, Lakehills is a place to come home to: only 2% work in town. Jobs in Lakehills grew by 20 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 180. Lakehills’ income of the median household stands at $90,000.
| Lakehills | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 2.3% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $90,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 12% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Lakehills’ public schools trail 71% of Texas districts
Its one school is below. The public schools here belong to Bandera ISD. Lakehills’ only public school teaches 446 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hill Country ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 446 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
High risk in Lakehills, with inland flooding at the top
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 92% of Texas towns, with expected losses of about $267 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
14 flood insurance claims have been paid in Lakehills since 1978. In Lakehills, the FEMA risk score is 78 of 100. Four fifths of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 8%. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Lakehills once, in 2021.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
On CDC estimates, Lakehills is less healthy than 71% of U.S. towns
Against the 9,930 U.S. towns with household incomes like Lakehills’s, it is less healthy than 87%, so it trails even them.
The share of adults in Lakehills who had a checkup this year: 78%. This Texas town does better than the Texas average on 9 of 31 CDC measures and worse on 10. 16% of adults here have diabetes; 16% report frequent physical distress.
| Lakehills | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 35% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 18% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Lakehills | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 13% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 12.2% | 16.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.9% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lakehills skews older than Texas
16.2% of homes are seasonal or vacation homes, against 1.6% statewide, which helps explain the older median age.
People 65 and older are nearly a quarter of residents (13% statewide); children under 18 are 17% of residents (25% statewide). In Lakehills, the age of the median resident is 49.4 years. College graduates make up 26% of adults 25 and older, against 34% across Texas.
| Lakehills | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 49.4 years | 35.8 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 17% | 26% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 23% | 14% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 26% | 23% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±4.4 points. Across Texas, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Lakehills | TX | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 7.3% | 13.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.3% | 11.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5.7% | 9.7% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 12.1% | 14.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 9.9% | 14.1% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.9% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 19.9% | 11.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 15.9% | 8.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7% | 5.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 5.6% | 14% | 10.4% |
| High school | 35.8% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 23.3% | 20.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 9.8% | 7.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 18.4% | 21.5% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 7.1% | 12.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
0% of Lakehills is conserved land
Count the trails in 2 parks and preserves and they come to 8.0 miles. Lakehills’ trail density comes in at 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bandera County Park | — | 8 |
| 2. Leibold Sports Complex | — | 8 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The climate in Lakehills brings mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons average 94.4°, hotter than in 95% of U.S. towns; January nights average 38.5°.
The typical July afternoon high for Lakehills comes to 94°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Lakehills | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 39°F | 37°F | 22°F |
| July high | 94°F | 95°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median home in Lakehills sells for about $298K
Lakehills’ typical rent is $1,046 a month. In Lakehills, 89% of households are owner-occupiers.
| Lakehills | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 89% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,046 a month | $1,208 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Lakehills
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Lakehills; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Lakehills residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
About Lakehills
CDP in Texas, United States
Lakehills is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bandera County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,295 at the 2020 census, making it the most populous place in Bandera County. It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 34 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,227 ft
Lakehills’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Lakehills.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakehills | #572 | D | C+ | — | C | C |
| Lake Medina Shores | — | — | C+ | — | C | C |
Lake Medina Shores has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Lakehills and Lake Medina Shores report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lakehills with a neighbor →
Questions about Lakehills
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lakehills, TX a good place to live?
Lakehills grades D overall, better than 5% of U.S. towns and #572 of 640 in Texas. It grades C for health and C for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Lakehills, TX expensive?
The typical home is worth about $259,000, 13% 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 C+.