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Austin-area hotel occupancy tax
The City of Austin reported $132.2M in local hotel occupancy tax for fiscal year 2025, at a local rate of 9% — down 0.9% from fiscal 2024. Visitors pay this tax on hotel and short-term stays on top of the state's 6%.
Austin, fiscal year by fiscal year
Revenue is what the city reported receiving in each fiscal year, which lags the stays it was collected on. The rate column is the local rate the city reported for that year; the Comptroller data records Austin's rate moving from 7% to 9% starting with fiscal 2020.
City of Austin local hotel occupancy tax revenue, by fiscal year
City of Austin hotel occupancy tax revenue ran $72.4M in 2017 and $132.2M in 2025 — up 82.5% across 9 observations. Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts local hotel occupancy tax reports (dataset hotel occupancy tax reports). Periods are the reporting government's fiscal years.
Show the 9 observations behind this chart
| Period | US dollars |
|---|---|
| 2017 | $72.4M |
| 2018 | $74.9M |
| 2019 | $84.2M |
| 2020 | $71.7M |
| 2021 | $44.5M |
| 2022 | $110.3M |
| 2023 | $134.1M |
| 2024 | $133.4M |
| 2025 | $132.2M |
As of — Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts local hotel occupancy tax reports (dataset hotel occupancy tax reports).
Every reporting jurisdiction, fiscal 2025
Ordered by revenue. A jurisdiction that did not report for fiscal 2025 is not listed.
| Jurisdiction | Local rate | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin | 9% | $132,150,027 | $133,357,408 | -0.9% |
| Round Rock | 7.0% | $12,631,502 | $13,166,214 | -4.1% |
| Bastrop | 7.0% | $3,601,541 | — | — |
| San Marcos | 7.0% | $3,317,669 | $3,966,291 | -16.4% |
| Georgetown | 7.0% | $2,181,192 | $2,374,478 | -8.1% |
| Cedar Park | 7.0% | $1,613,918 | $1,790,593 | -9.9% |
| Lakeway | 7.0% | $1,449,802 | $1,751,772 | -17.2% |
| Pflugerville | 7.0% | $1,165,416 | $1,271,964 | -8.4% |
| Wimberley | 7.0% | $841,186 | $776,669 | +8.3% |
| Kyle | 7.0% | $630,418 | — | — |
| Bastrop County | 7.0% | $511,561 | $528,295 | -3.2% |
| Bee Cave | 7.0% | $486,614 | $522,575 | -6.9% |
| Hutto | 7.0% | $386,114 | $323,064 | +19.5% |
| Taylor | 7.0% | $355,172 | $365,719 | -2.9% |
| Manor | 7.0% | $206,308 | $172,254 | +19.8% |
| Lockhart | 7.0% | $185,435 | $186,674 | -0.7% |
| Leander | 7.0% | $184,752 | $199,295 | -7.3% |
| Luling | 7.0% | $141,785 | — | — |
| Elgin | 7.0% | $136,607 | — | — |
| Jonestown | 7.0% | $135,351 | $107,190 | +26.3% |
| Smithville | 7.0% | $46,328 | $49,588 | -6.6% |
| Martindale | 7.0% | $10,880 | $16,920 | -35.7% |
| Mustang Ridge | 6% | $0 | — | — |
| Woodcreek | 0% | $0 | — | — |
Where these numbers come from
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Data as of March 6, 2026; retrieved September 30, 2026. Updated annual. Comptroller open data on data.texas.gov (vmy5-jctb labelled Public Domain).Reported by taxing jurisdiction and fiscal year, not by property; the by-property layer is tx_hotels. Revenue is the local government's report of hotel tax received, which lags stays. Dataset schemas differ by year and were mapped to one shape; where two datasets cover a year the later dataset wins. Fiscal year 2016 has only a handful of cities.
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