Is The Hills a good place to live?
The best of The Hills’ subject grades are an A+ for health and incomes and an A for schools; the weakest is a D− for cost of living. 34% of residents are 65 or older in The Hills, where Texas’ towns sit at 14% and U.S. towns at 18%. On cost of living, just 7 of Texas’ 998 towns do worse. The Hills is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns. The Hills’ trail density is 5.3 miles per square mile, where Texas’ towns sit at 0.3 and U.S. towns at 0.4. The Hills has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes The Hills stand out
Where The Hills beats most towns.
| Widest gap | The Hills | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.4% | 19.1% |
99% of working residents leave The Hills for work
Where The Hills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How The Hills grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far The Hills 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 The Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaDarrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium
23 mi CaveJacob's Well (Texas)
6 mi LakeLake Travis
16 mi Stadium & arenaMoody Center
13 mi LakeLake Austin
18 mi LakeLady Bird LakePhoto credits
Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium: Brint03, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jacob's Well (Texas): Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Lake Travis: Trey Perry, CC BY 3.0 · Moody Center: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Lake Austin: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Lady Bird Lake: Arvindn on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to The Hills: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in The Hills, and how to reach them.
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 The Hills.
Compared with most of Texas and the rest of the country, the median rent in The Hills is higher
The median rent in The Hills is $3,501 a month. The typical The Hills home is worth about $816,000, up 2.6% in a year, 3 times the Texas typical home. 96% of The Hills households own their home.
| The Hills | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $3,501 a month | $1,208 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 96% | 69% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The Hills stands out in Texas and nationally: a smaller share of its adults report frequent mental distress
12% of adults report frequent mental distress in The Hills. The Hills beats the Texas average on 20 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 9.7% of adults report frequent physical distress in The Hills.
| The Hills | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 18% | 17% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 39% | 36% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 30% | 25% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 6.1% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | The Hills | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.4% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 5.5% | 19.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.9% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The Hills has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave The Hills for work: only 1% work in town. The Hills’ median household income is $158,000. Jobs based in The Hills grew to 301 in 2023, 37 more than in 2013.
| The Hills | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $158,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 3.6% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.4% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers in The Hills
The Hills has mild winters and hot summers. July afternoons reach 96°, January nights drop to 38° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Inland flooding leads a moderate hazard risk in The Hills
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 52% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. The Hills Park | — | 8 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about The Hills
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of The Hills
About 4 of every 100 The Hills residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
About The Hills
Type B general law city in Texas, United States
The Hills is a village in Travis County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,613 at the 2020 census, making it the largest village in Texas. It is a suburb of Austin.
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- Area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Elevation
- 817 ft
Questions about The Hills
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is The Hills, TX expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.