Austin Restaurant Health Inspections

Questions about Austin restaurant inspection scores

What is a good restaurant health inspection score in Austin?

The median Austin-area restaurant currently carries 93 out of 100, measured across the 6,977 facilities with a published score. That makes a score in the 90s ordinary rather than exceptional. Of 47,462 scored inspections published since December 16, 2022, 31,445 (66%) scored 90 or above, 12,248 (26%) scored 80 to 89, and 3,769 (8%) scored below 80. Austin Public Health publishes a number, not a letter grade. The 90 / 80 cut points used on this site are a grouping convention for reading that number, not a regulatory grade.

Does a low score mean a restaurant is unsafe to eat at?

No. A score is a snapshot of a single visit on a single day. It measures compliance with food-safety rules — not food quality, service or how clean the place is today. Austin Public Health does not publish the individual violations behind a score, so this dataset cannot say what was found. A low score means an inspector recorded enough violations on one visit to deduct that many points; it does not establish that anyone was ever made ill, and a restaurant can be re-inspected and score well days later.

Are the individual violations behind a score published?

No. The city's open dataset (ecmv-9xxi) publishes exactly seven fields — establishment name, address, ZIP, inspection date, score out of 100, facility ID, and whether the visit was a routine inspection or a follow-up. There is no violation-level field in it, so no site republishing this dataset — including this one — can tell you what was actually found. For that you would need to request the inspection report from Austin Public Health directly.

How current is this inspection data?

The newest inspection in the city's published dataset is dated September 24, 2026, 22 days ago. Austin Public Health publishes in irregular batches, so there is normally a lag of weeks between an inspection and its appearance here. This page refreshes within the hour of the city publishing.

How many Austin restaurants are inspected, and how often?

6,977 food establishments across the Austin area carry at least one published score, spread over 60 ZIP codes. The dataset carries no inspection schedule, so this site does not state an inspection frequency as fact — each facility page shows the median gap between that facility's own recorded visits instead.

Where does this data come from, and can I get it myself?

Every number here comes from Austin Public Health via the City of Austin open data portal, dataset ecmv-9xxi, released into the public domain (CC0). It is downloadable as JSON or CSV from data.austintexas.gov. This site adds geocoding, per-facility history, and comparison against the citywide and ZIP-level distributions; it does not alter any published score.