Santa Rita RanchTX
A town of 6,586.
Is Santa Rita Ranch a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Santa Rita Ranch grades B overall, 113th of 640 graded towns in Texas. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 91% of the country. The median household earns $161K. The catch is cost: homes are expensive, about $516K for a typical one and 5.1 times the Austin metro’s $100K median household income. Santa Rita Ranch’s rent at the middle of the market is $2,701 a month, against $1,206 a month in Texas’ towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns. Only 6 of the 642 Texas towns we compare have a lower share of residents below the poverty line than Santa Rita Ranch.
What makes Santa Rita Ranch stand out
Where Santa Rita Ranch beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Santa Rita Ranch for work
Where Santa Rita Ranch’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Santa Rita Ranch grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Santa Rita Ranch is from typical.
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Moving to Santa Rita Ranch: who provides what
Santa Rita Ranch is unincorporated, so Williamson 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 Santa Rita Ranch.
Santa Rita Ranch has hotter summers than nearly all U.S. towns, has less food insecurity than most of Texas and sends most of its workers to Austin and beyond.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. The Green | 0.3 mi | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Public schools in Santa Rita Ranch beat 54% of Texas districts
One of its 3 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. Liberty Hill ISD runs its public schools. 3 public schools serve Santa Rita Ranch, with 1,782 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Rita ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 745 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Santa Rita Ranch stands out in Texas and nationally: a smaller share of its adults have high blood pressure
Its widest gap with Texas is food insecurity: 10% of its 2,125 adults worry about having enough food, against 19.3% statewide. Against the 2,143 U.S. towns with household incomes like Santa Rita Ranch’s, it is less healthy than 51%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Against the Texas average, Santa Rita Ranch comes out ahead on 22 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 1. Santa Rita Ranch: 74% of adults had a checkup this year.
| Santa Rita Ranch | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9.7% | 15% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 35% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 7.9% | 13% | 12% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 30% | 25% |
| What stands out | Santa Rita Ranch | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10% | 19.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 10% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 70% | 74.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Very low risk in Santa Rita Ranch, with inland flooding at the top
FEMA puts just over two fifths of Santa Rita Ranch’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 17% to tornadoes. Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in just over four fifths of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
About half of Santa Rita Ranch’s working residents commute to Austin
Santa Rita Ranch has 268 jobs for its 2,641 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 37.5 minutes, against 26.7 across Texas.
The typical journey to work for Santa Rita Ranch comes to 38 minutes. Most working residents leave Santa Rita Ranch for work: only 1% work in town. Jobs in Santa Rita Ranch grew by 166 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 268. The top destinations are Austin (45%), Round Rock (7%) and Cedar Park (5%).
| Santa Rita Ranch | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $161,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 38 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Santa Rita Ranch has mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons average 95.3°, hotter than in 96% of U.S. towns; January nights average 37.5°.
It almost never snows. Santa Rita Ranch’s peak summer temperature is 95°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Santa Rita Ranch | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 95°F | 95°F | 85°F |
| January low | 38°F | 37°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Homes in Santa Rita Ranch sell for about $510K
On the market in Santa Rita Ranch: a median 140 days to sell. 95% of households live in a home they own here. Sellers in Santa Rita Ranch got 96.6% of the asking price, typically.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium and 43 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Santa Rita Ranch. Close and well known come first.
Big draw27 mi Stadium & arenaDarrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium
27 mi Stadium & arenaMoody Center
9 mi Stadium & arenaCedar Park Center
19 mi LakeLake Travis
20 mi Stadium & arenaQ2 Stadium
29 mi LakeLady Bird LakePhoto credits
Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium: Brint03, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Moody Center: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Cedar Park Center: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Lake Travis: Trey Perry, CC BY 3.0 · Q2 Stadium: Daniel Ziegler, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lady Bird Lake: Arvindn on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Everything we know about Santa Rita Ranch
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Santa Rita Ranch
About 4 of every 100 Santa Rita Ranch residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
About Santa Rita Ranch
Census-designated place in Texas, United States
Santa Rita is a planned community and census-designated place (CDP) in Williamson County, Texas, United States. It was first listed as a CDP during the 2020 census. As of the 2020 census, Santa Rita Ranch had a population of 3,152. It sits on 3,100-acres. It is in the western part of the county, 11 miles (18 km) west of Georgetown, the county seat, and 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Liberty Hill. Ronald Reagan Boulevard, a western bypass of the Georgetown area, is the main road through the CDP.
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- Area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,024 ft
Santa Rita Ranch’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Santa Rita Ranch.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Rita Ranch | #113 | B | D | — | B− | A |
| Liberty Hill | #55 | A− | C− | B+ | A− | A− |
Santa Rita Ranch reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Santa Rita Ranch with a neighbor →
Questions about Santa Rita Ranch
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Santa Rita Ranch, TX a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Santa Rita Ranch grades B overall, better than 63% of U.S. towns and #113 of 640 in Texas. It grades A for health and B− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Santa Rita Ranch, TX expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $516,000, 74% 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 D.