The neighborhood atlas
Austin, one
neighborhood at a time.
Find the places that give an area its character, then see what the public record says. Local field guides, actual boundaries, and the numbers behind the blocks.
Boundaries: City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas · saved boundary vintage 2021-09-22. The file includes several planning statuses. Familiar district names can span mapped areas.
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Every area. Its own story.
The outlines use the city’s saved polygons. Each shape is fitted to its card; sizes are not comparable.
Allandale
Beverly S. Sheffield Northwest District Park gives an Allandale outing a clear starting point. Its playscape planning and recently renovated aquatic facility tell different chapters of the same community space. Use the city’s dedicated park and pool pages to distinguish long-term improvements from the facilities and access available for your visit.
Barton Hills
Barton Creek gives this part of Austin its outdoor rhythm: limestone terrain, a network of trailheads and a regional trail still taking shape. Choose a specific access point and route before setting out; the greenbelt extends far beyond any one neighborhood boundary.
Bouldin Creek
Bouldin Creek’s name appears on several different green spaces. The city lists separate east and west creek sites as well as Nicholas Dawson Neighborhood Park. Their precise addresses offer a better starting point than treating every Bouldin reference as the same destination.
Brentwood
Arroyo Seco is the address to know for Brentwood Pool. The seasonal swimming facility gives this guide a concrete local starting point, while the Brentwood/Highland Combined plan places the neighborhood in a broader civic context.
Central East Austin
The Carver Museum and Genealogy Center offers a way to explore both public history and personal family stories. Its city-run resources extend from exhibit galleries to genealogical databases, reference material and seminars.
Chestnut
Chestnut Pocket Park pairs a neighborhood-scale playground with a splash pad and picnic pavilion. The city documents a playground renovation completed in June 2026, adding a current chapter to this East 16th Street gathering place.
Coronado Hills
Buttermilk is a useful local name to learn here. The city lists both a neighborhood park and a branch greenbelt, with different street addresses. A documented creek cleanup shows how this green corridor also becomes a community stewardship space.
Crestview
Crestview’s neighborhood association traces its development to former farmland and the postwar growth of Austin. Street names and the neighborhood’s creek help connect today’s area to that earlier landscape.
Dawson
Dawson’s former elementary campus is entering a new chapter. Austin ISD now includes Dawson Elementary in its legacy-school history and publishes a dedicated repurposing process for the site. Read that current district record alongside the neighborhood’s long-established city plan.
Downtown
Austin’s Central Library brings several kinds of city life together at one address: books, art, technology and a roof garden overlooking the lake. It offers a useful downtown destination whether you have a full afternoon or one focused stop.
East Cesar Chavez
Terrazas Branch gives East Cesar Chavez a civic stop on its namesake street. The branch combines everyday library services with a reservable meeting room, while Austin’s neighborhood plan preserves a separate record of local planning decisions.
East Congress
Battlebend Springs Neighborhood Park gives East Congress a precise outdoor destination. The city’s combined planning documents and neighborhood project programs add context for residents who want to understand how shared spaces are planned and improved.
East Oak Hill
Dick Nichols Pool is a seasonal recreation reference in East Oak Hill. The citywide directory checked for this guide lists it closed, while the facility page describes its summer swimming, lessons and team activity. Confirm a future opening before planning a swim.
Franklin Park
The neighborhood keeps the Franklin Park name, while its local park honors Pastor Edward Clarence Craig Jr. Austin Parks Foundation documents how sustained neighborhood stewardship reshaped the space and led to the 2018 renaming.
Galindo
South Austin Recreation Center offers a local starting point for sports, programs and shared indoor space. Its Cumberland Road facility connects an indoor gym and meeting rooms with outdoor courts and play areas.
Garrison Park
Garrison Pool gives this guide a clear destination on Menchaca Road. The city’s facility listing brings together the details that matter for a swim, from a wading area and lap lanes to accessibility and seasonal operating periods.
Gateway
Gateway’s story is closely tied to the North Burnet/Gateway planning framework. City documents describe a shift from auto-oriented development toward mixed uses, better connections and transit access; those are planning goals to compare against actual projects and conditions.
Georgian Acres
Georgian Acres Neighborhood Park provides a local meeting point on East Powell Lane. City documents connect the park’s wooded setting with public-art planning and volunteer-led recreation, giving residents several ways to understand and participate in its story.
Govalle
Govalle Park is a starting point for Southern Walnut Creek Trail. The route connects an urban park visit with a longer multi-use trail, while the larger regional system remains a mixture of completed sections and future projects.
Hancock
Hancock combines a historic golf course with a recreation center and outdoor play spaces. The city’s separate golf and recreation pages explain how the same grounds serve different activities and why visitor plans should follow the relevant program’s rules.
Heritage Hills
Gus Garcia Recreation Center is a useful North Austin resource for recreation across age groups. Its city pages distinguish the existing programs and facilities from a proposed senior-wing expansion that is still being developed.
Highland
ACC Highland gives the neighborhood a distinctive redevelopment story: an indoor shopping mall transformed into a campus and a surrounding mix of public spaces and other uses. The college’s maps help make sense of a site that still carries traces of its earlier life.
Holly
Holly’s lakefront story brings together the former power-plant site, Festival Beach and generations of neighborhood advocacy. City project pages explain the vision for these spaces and distinguish phased improvements from work still being planned.
Hyde Park
Elisabet Ney’s former home and studio is a defining Hyde Park cultural landmark. Its history remains worth exploring while the museum is closed for renovation; current city information directs visitors toward programs and the eventual reopening.
Johnston Terrace
Levander Loop brings a public-service campus and a layered local history into Johnston Terrace’s story. Austin Animal Services offers a practical point of connection, while city records explain the campus’s earlier educational use and neighborhood planning discussions.
McKinney
McKinney Falls State Park offers a starting point for exploring this side of Austin: Onion Creek’s limestone ledges, wooded trails and the remains of an early ranch. The state park and the city’s McKinney planning area are different geographies, so use the park’s own maps for a visit.
MLK (Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd)
Givens District Park connects East Austin recreation with the legacy of a local civic leader. Its current project pages distinguish completed pool work from recreation-center renovation, helping visitors understand both the park’s history and changing access.
MLK-183 (Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd at US 183)
Red Bluff’s conservation story offers a distinctive way to explore East Austin’s relationship with its natural spaces. The city’s Audio Wild project records a neighborhood advocate’s memories, while its land-management updates describe ongoing stewardship partnerships.
Montopolis
Montopolis Recreation and Community Center brings sports, creative programs and shared indoor space together on Montopolis Drive. The city’s pages also describe renovated pool amenities, making it useful to plan around a particular activity instead of treating every facility as one schedule.
North Austin Civic Association
North Austin Civic Association, often shortened to NACA, is the name used for this mapped area. Little Walnut Creek Branch on West Rundberg Lane gives residents a concrete local resource for books, printing and reservable meeting space.
North Burnet
Q2 Stadium gives North Burnet a major event destination. Austin FC’s own guides cover the decisions that matter before arrival: transport, mobile tickets, bag rules, payment and accessibility services.
North Lamar
Chinatown Center provides a recognizable North Lamar destination, while the local planning contact team documents parks and public-art work along the corridor. Together, those sources offer a more grounded introduction than treating the entire road as one uniform district.
North Loop
Breakaway Records gives North Loop a concrete musical destination. Its own story spans a move from East Austin, a record collection that reaches across genres, and a continuing connection to Austin’s listening-room culture.
North Shoal Creek
North Shoal Creek’s planning documents focus on the practical ingredients of neighborhood life: walking and cycling connections, public facilities, greenery and varied housing. Pillow School Park offers one concrete public-space reference within that wider planning story.
North University
Adams-Hemphill Neighborhood Park sits at the intersection of recreation and flood-management planning. The city’s concept work shows how a park can be asked to serve both everyday neighborhood use and a broader infrastructure purpose.
Old Enfield
Pease Park’s trail and landscape offer an outdoor reference point for exploring the Old Enfield area. The conservancy’s map separates the activity-focused Kingsbury Commons from northern park spaces along Shoal Creek, helping visitors choose a particular destination.
Old West Austin
Kingsbury Commons offers a distinctive Pease Park starting point, with a treehouse observation pod, nature play and basketball. The conservancy’s wider map adds creekside trails and other park spaces beyond the southern activity area.
Parker Lane
Mabel Davis District Park gives Parker Lane a distinctive recreation destination. The city identifies its skate park as Austin’s first, combining a bowl, street-style elements and space for people who prefer to watch.
Pecan Springs-Springdale
Little Walnut Creek Greenbelt offers a local story of community priorities becoming trail and play improvements. The city documents a new Springdale Road trailhead and play area, while the larger wooded landscape retains a network of informal trails.
Pleasant Valley
Roy G. Guerrero Park’s story includes a rebuilt pedestrian connection and major creek-stabilization work after flood damage. The city documents how the project restored access while protecting the parkland and infrastructure around it.
Riverside
The Boardwalk offers a distinctive stretch of the Butler Trail along Lady Bird Lake. Its access points and viewing areas make it possible to plan a focused outing without committing to the full loop around the lake.
Robert Mueller Municipal Airport (RMMA)
Mueller’s former airport site now combines a lake, restored prairie, public art and smaller neighborhood parks. The city dataset retains the historical name Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, or RMMA. On the ground, the park network provides several distinct ways to explore the redevelopment beyond a single shopping stop.
Rosedale
Ramsey is a useful local name with two city listings: the neighborhood park and its pool. Knowing the different addresses and the pool’s seasonal status helps turn a vague park plan into a specific Rosedale outing.
Rosewood
Rosewood Park holds a significant place in Austin’s Black history and remains a setting for recreation and community life. The city records a completed 2026 playground project, adding new play and gathering spaces to a much older civic landscape.
South Lamar
The Broken Spoke gives South Lamar a connection to Austin’s live-country-music and dance-hall history. Its operator pages combine an account of performers and earlier decades with current music listings and dance-lesson information.
South Manchaca
Menchaca Road Branch provides a local library anchor with a renovation story to follow. Its current page distinguishes the planned interior improvements from a postponed closure, helping residents check the actual service status before a visit.
South River City
Big Stacy, Little Stacy and Blunn Creek are distinct public-space names around South River City. The city directory makes their different addresses clear, helping visitors choose a particular park or creek destination instead of relying on a broad neighborhood label.
Southeast
Southeast Branch provides a precise public-service destination on Nuckols Crossing Road. Its books, printing information and reservable meeting room offer an everyday civic reference point, while the city’s combined planning documents explain the broader area name.
St. Edwards
St. Edward’s University’s Main Building gives this area a recognizable architectural reference. The university’s own history records a campus shaped by its Holy Cross mission and a building that has survived fire, storm damage and later restoration.
St. John
St. John Branch is a concrete civic destination in the area’s public-service landscape. Its current library information and the St. John/Coronado Hills combined plan answer different questions about everyday services and the neighborhood’s mapped planning context.
Sweetbriar
Pleasant Hill Branch offers a concrete library destination on East William Cannon Drive. Its branch services and the city’s South Congress Combined planning materials provide two different ways to get to know Sweetbriar: daily civic resources and the neighborhood’s formal planning context.
Triangle State
Triangle Commons Neighborhood Park gives this mapped area a concrete outdoor destination. Its city listing includes an important practical distinction: the park is operated by a partner, and the city’s online facility calendar does not establish public availability.
University Hills
Dottie Jordan Recreation Center connects University Hills with neighborhood recreation and the legacy of a local teacher. Its programs include therapeutic recreation, while the separate pool listing makes seasonal swimming access clear.
University of Texas at Austin (UT)
The Blanton Museum of Art offers a public-facing way to explore the University of Texas area. Its collection, changing exhibitions and guided visits create several possible itineraries, while the museum’s own access rules help distinguish an art visit from a general campus walk.
Upper Boggy Creek
Patterson Neighborhood Park and Patterson Pool share a Brookview Road address, but a park outing and a swim need different planning. The city’s separate listings make that distinction clear and provide a local anchor for exploring Upper Boggy Creek.
West Austin Neighborhood Group
Mayfield Park provides a distinctive West Austin destination: cottage gardens, stone-edged ponds and the peacocks that appear throughout the city’s description. Its adjacent preserve adds trails and habitat with different rules from a typical neighborhood park.
West Congress
Williamson Creek’s central greenbelt provides a concrete local reference point for West Congress. The city’s separate central and east creek projects are easy to confuse, so this guide starts with the exact park listing and the appropriate vision-plan name.
West Oak Hill
Austin Zoo offers a specific destination on Rawhide Trail for this side of the city. Its operator describes a rescue mission centered on animals in need, while its admissions page explains how ordinary visits differ from separately ticketed events.
West University
The Neill-Cochran House Museum offers a distinct historical stop near UT Austin. Its interpretation covers the residence, the people connected to it and the surviving enslaved quarters, placing architectural history alongside the social history that shaped the site.
Westgate
Westgate Transit Center provides a practical way to connect a neighborhood outing with the wider city. CapMetro’s facility and stop pages separate the transit center from nearby street stops and make clear why a trip should follow current service information.
Windsor Hills
Windsor Hills’ association describes its neighborhood through nearby recreation and shopping resources, including Gus Garcia Recreation Center, Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park and Chinatown Center. Those are useful reference points without treating all of them as properties inside the same planning boundary.
Windsor Park
Windsor Park Branch offers a specific civic destination on Westminster Drive. Its branch information supports a library visit, a print errand or a reserved meeting, while the city’s planning resources explain the area’s relationship with University Hills.
Windsor Road
Don Baylor Neighborhood Park and Westenfield Pool now illustrate why local names need care. The city renamed the park to honor the Austin baseball figure, while the pool’s current facility listing still uses Westenfield.
Wooten
Wooten Neighborhood Park’s community history explains how volunteers turned improvement ideas into a pavilion, planting beds and a replacement playscape. The neighborhood association’s own account gives the park a story that extends beyond a point on a map.
Zilker
Zilker’s name connects a neighborhood and one of Austin’s major public parks. The city’s park and garden pages offer several distinct destinations, from themed gardens to Barton Springs, with a history shaped by land donations and New Deal-era work.
Frequently asked questions
Why are there 65 areas in this Austin neighborhood guide?
The saved City of Austin neighborhood-planning boundary file contains 95 polygons that merge into 65 named areas. It includes approved plans, suspended and future planning areas, and non-neighborhood areas such as Downtown and the former Mueller airport. A familiar district name does not always match a planning boundary. South Congress has its own guide explaining which mapped areas contain its civic data.
How should I compare Austin neighborhoods?
Start with the places and routines that matter to you: parks, libraries, cultural spaces and nearby destinations. Each guide links the original sources for local context, then shows dated construction permits, restaurant inspection scores and mixed-beverage receipts. These records describe specific activities; they do not rank an area’s quality of life, affordability or safety.
Is Mueller listed under a different name?
Yes. The city boundary file uses RMMA for Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, the site redeveloped as Mueller. The Mueller link takes you to that mapped area. Colloquial labels such as East Austin can refer to several areas, so check the boundary map before interpreting a neighborhood total.
Are ZIP codes the same as neighborhood boundaries?
No. Postal ZIP codes and city planning areas are different geographies. A ZIP can overlap several neighborhoods, and a neighborhood can cross ZIP boundaries. The local data on these pages is matched to the saved city polygons where coordinates are available; ZIP-based comparisons are labeled separately.
Can I see restaurant inspection violations by neighborhood?
The neighborhood pages show Austin Public Health inspection scores and inspection dates for mapped establishments. A score is a snapshot from that inspection, and this dataset does not provide a violation-by-violation breakdown. Use the linked inspection records to compare the published results and dates.
Looking for the South Congress district? See which planning areas cover South Congress (SoCo).