City of Austin neighborhood planning area
Old Enfield
Thinking about moving here? This page shows what the public record says about Old Enfield: the building permits the city has geocoded inside this exact boundary, the restaurant inspections Austin Public Health has published, the venues filing mixed-beverage receipts, and the registered construction projects. Every figure below carries the date and the agency it came from.
Old Enfield is one of 65 City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas — a zoning geography adopted by council ordinance, not a colloquial neighborhood name. 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, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as OLD ENFIELD.
What the public record says about Old Enfield
- City of Austin Development Services has issued 1,275 building permits that it has geocoded inside the Old Enfield planning-area boundary, the earliest dated October 8, 1979 and the most recent August 12, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $82,760,646. Declared value is the figure an applicant puts on the permit application — not market value and not finished cost. Counted over every issue date in the city’s Issued Construction Permits dataset (3syk-w9eu), building permits only. Placing a permit inside a boundary needs a mapped coordinate, and about one building permit in seven (13.8% of them, as published on 2026-07-26) carries no location at all — those rows cannot be placed in any neighbourhood, here or anywhere else, so this is a count of geocoded permits rather than of every permit issued. How busy it is now is a different question, and the list below is the honest answer to it: the 25 most recently issued permits here were all issued since December 5, 2025.
- None of the Austin Public Health inspections published for ZIP 78703, 78705, 78701, 78756, 78751 could be placed inside this boundary — we match them by geocoded street address, so this means “none we can place”, not “none exist”.
- Of the 100 highest-grossing mixed-beverage filers the Texas Comptroller lists for ZIP 78703, 78705, 78701, 78756, 78751, 0 sit inside this boundary. The Comptroller has not published a filing month for these rows. Per-venue figures are gross receipts reported to the Comptroller, summed over each venue’s own filing months — never a total for Old Enfield. Filings are monthly and land three to four weeks late.
These controls filter the records already on this page. They do not re-query the agencies.
Map of the Old Enfield boundary
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.
Building permits
The 25 most recently issued inside this boundary (page limit 25)
Restaurant inspections
Austin Public Health · up to 15 most recent inside this boundary
We could not place any Austin Public Health inspection from ZIP 78703, 78705, 78701, 78756, 78751 inside this boundary. We match by geocoded street address, so this means none we can place — not none that exist.
Registered projects
Texas Dept. of Licensing & Regulation filings · up to 15 inside this boundary
Bars & restaurants filing receipts
Texas Comptroller mixed-beverage filers we placed inside this boundary
We hold geocoded coordinates for none of the 100 filers in ZIP 78703, 78705, 78701, 78756, 78751 that would place them inside this boundary. Placement uses our address cache, so this is a gap in our data, not a claim that Old Enfield has no bars.
Old Enfield: questions people actually ask
Is Old Enfield an official Austin neighborhood?
Old Enfield is one of 65 City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas — a zoning and planning geography adopted by City Council ordinance, not a colloquial neighborhood name. 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 Old Enfield boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
How much construction is happening in Old Enfield?
City of Austin Development Services has issued 1,275 building permits that it has geocoded inside the Old Enfield planning-area boundary, the earliest dated October 8, 1979 and the most recent August 12, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $82,760,646. 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.
What ZIP codes cover Old Enfield?
No ZIP code centroid falls inside the Old Enfield boundary, so we search the 5 nearest instead: 78703, 78705, 78701, 78756, 78751. 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.