A walking golf course
GolfATX describes Hancock as a nine-hole, par-35 course with a pay-station operation, no pro shop and walking-only play. Check its current course instructions before arriving for a round.[2]
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Hancock is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas boundary dataset. The saved source records its planning status as plan approved. These mapped categories differ from colloquial neighborhood names. Districts people name in conversation, like South Congress, Rainey Street or the Sixth Street entertainment district, are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area or straddle two. This boundary is a single polygon in the city's file, with ordinance 20040826-056 recorded in the source, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as 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.
2 linked sources · CheckedGolfATX describes Hancock as a nine-hole, par-35 course with a pay-station operation, no pro shop and walking-only play. Check its current course instructions before arriving for a round.[2]
The city says Hancock Recreation Center sits within the golf course. Its facilities include a ballroom, classrooms, a covered playground, picnic tables, a basketball court and a small sports field.[1]
The GolfATX account identifies the grounds as the original Austin Country Club site and describes Harvey Penick’s early work there as a caddie.[2]
GolfATX describes a pay-station operation with no pro-shop operations. Use the current course page for payment instructions and other requirements.[2]
The center reserves court and field periods for youth and sports programs. Check the published schedule before planning informal play.[1]
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Boundary drawn from City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas, as last modified September 22, 2021. Markers are placed from geocoded street addresses, so a record whose address we cannot geocode is listed below but not pinned. The panels under the map are the full text equivalent.
The 25 most recently issued inside this boundary (page limit 25)
Austin Public Health · up to 15 most recent inside this boundary
We could not place any Austin Public Health inspection from ZIP 78705, 78751, 78722, 78756, 78702 inside this boundary. We match by geocoded street address, so this means none we can place — not none that exist.
Texas Dept. of Licensing & Regulation filings · up to 15 inside this boundary
Texas Comptroller mixed-beverage filers we placed inside this boundary
2 of 100 filers in ZIP 78705, 78751, 78722, 78756, 78702 placed inside this boundary. Each venue’s figure is its own gross receipts over its own filing months — there is deliberately no area total, because this is a sample, not a census.
Hancock is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin neighborhood-planning boundary dataset. Its status in the saved source is plan approved. Inclusion in this file does not by itself mean a neighborhood plan was adopted. Well-known districts such as South Congress, Rainey Street and the Sixth Street entertainment district are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area, or straddle two. The Hancock boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin ordinance number 20040826-056 is recorded against this planning area in the city's Neighborhood Planning Areas dataset, with planning status plan approved.
City of Austin Development Services has issued 3,015 building permits that it has geocoded inside the Hancock planning-area boundary, the earliest dated July 8, 1971 and the most recent September 21, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $544,032,933. Declared value is the figure the applicant put on the permit application, not market value or finished cost. Counted from the city's Issued Construction Permits dataset (3syk-w9eu), building permits only, over every issue date in that dataset. The boundary test needs a mapped coordinate, and about one building permit in seven (13.8% as published on 2026-07-26) carries no location, so those rows cannot be placed in any neighbourhood and are not in this figure.
No ZIP code centroid falls inside the Hancock boundary, so we search the 5 nearest instead: 78705, 78751, 78722, 78756, 78702. We match ZIP codes to planning areas by testing each ZIP's centroid against the boundary polygon, so a large ZIP can overlap an area without its centre landing inside it. Use the boundary, not the ZIP, as the authority.