Travis County · #8 of 64 ZIPs in the 311 feed by all-time volume
Downtown’s public spaces offer several ways to read 78701: the small historic squares in the street grid, places along Shoal Creek and Lady Bird Lake, and Waterloo Greenway’s growing Waller Creek corridor. Use the named park entrances and current operator notices to plan a specific route.
Downtown’s public spaces offer several ways to read 78701: the small historic squares in the street grid, places along Shoal Creek and Lady Bird Lake, and Waterloo Greenway’s growing Waller Creek corridor. Use the named park entrances and current operator notices to plan a specific route.
4 linked sources · CheckedWaterloo Greenway follows Waller Creek through downtown. Its operator now reports the opening of Phase II, The Confluence, while describing the wider park as an ongoing project. That distinction matters: the complete corridor described in the long-term vision is not the same as the sections open for a visit.[2][3]
The City lists Republic Square at 422 Guadalupe Street and Brush Square, identified with the O. Henry Museum, at 409 East 5th Street. These give a downtown outing two concrete reference points without treating the whole ZIP as one attraction.[1]
Shoal Beach is listed at 707 West Cesar Chavez Street; Waller Beach at 30 East Avenue. The directory’s addresses are useful waypoints, but an address in 78701 does not establish the boundary of a waterfront park or every entrance to it.[1]
Its operator describes the system as opening in phases. Check current project notices: the trails page’s three-mile connected vision is expressly described as the completed future system.[2][3]
No. A postal ZIP organizes mail delivery, while a Census ZCTA is a generalized statistical geography. Neither should be substituted for the boundary of a neighborhood, park or trail.[4]
Local context is based on the sources below. Confirm current access, schedules, and reservations with the operator. Civic figures elsewhere on this page retain their own reporting periods.
As of September 17, 2026, Austin ZIP code 78701 had 648 open 311 service requests and 100 open code enforcement cases, out of 24,618 311 requests and 1,276 code cases recorded there since July 21, 2014, according to City of Austin open data (datasets xwdj-i9he and 6wtj-zbtb). Austin Public Health has scored 531 restaurants and food facilities in 78701, with a median most-recent score of 91/100 and 43 currently below 80 as of August 25, 2026; 161 businesses with a Texas mixed-beverage permit reported $19,477,687 in alcohol sales here in August 2026, per Texas Comptroller data (dataset naix-2893).
The 2020 Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 78701, outlined against its 10 nearest neighbours, with 60 of the 531 inspected restaurants here — the most recently inspected ones carrying an exact geocode — plotted at their own coordinates and coloured by their most recent Austin Public Health score, newest August 25, 2026.
Boundary: 2020 Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 78701, generalized for display. A ZCTA approximates the USPS delivery area — it is not the ZIP code itself, and nothing on this site assigns data to a ZIP using it. Restaurant points are geocoded on the Austin Public Health inspection record (dataset ecmv-9xxi). Bars are not plotted: the Comptroller publishes no venue coordinates, so they are listed below instead.
Austin 311 logged 10,271 service requests in ZIP 78701 across the 11 complete months shown, with the busiest being May 2026 at 1,132. The final bar is the current month and is still filling.
| Month | 311 opened | 311 closed | Code cases |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | 1,061 | 1,059 | 27 |
| November 2025 | 761 | 739 | 38 |
| December 2025 | 678 | 724 | 32 |
| January 2026 | 841 | 770 | 55 |
| February 2026 | 934 | 907 | 24 |
| March 2026 | 1,001 | 939 | 50 |
| April 2026 | 1,045 | 1,105 | 33 |
| May 2026 | 1,132 | 1,207 | 54 |
| June 2026 | 1,007 | 1,002 | 39 |
| July 2026 | 903 | 927 | 48 |
| August 2026 | 908 | 871 | 50 |
| September 2026(to date) | 498 | 524 | 30 |
The 8 most-filed request types in ZIP 78701, all time. Together they account for 12,904 of the 24,618 requests ever recorded there — the rest are spread across dozens of smaller categories, so this is a top slice and not a full breakdown.
| Request type | Category | All time | Last 12 mo | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parking Violation Enforcement | Transportation & Streets | 3,998 | 2,332 | 9 |
| Outdoor Commercial Venue Music Complaint | Code Compliance & Property | 2,285 | 1,083 | 30 |
| Non Emergency Noise/Alarm | Police & Public Safety | 1,411 | 94 | 13 |
| Other | Other | 1,327 | 653 | 1 |
| Parking Sign Maintenance | Transportation & Streets | 1,173 | 484 | 12 |
| Traffic Signal - Maintenance | Transportation & Streets | 1,000 | 543 | 16 |
| Shared Micromobility | Transportation & Streets | 882 | 326 | 165 |
| Request Code Officer | Code Compliance & Property | 828 | 465 | 72 |
Compare against every Austin ZIP on the Austin 311 explorer.
A code case records an allegation that Austin Code investigated. It is not a finding of wrongdoing, and no case addresses are published anywhere on this site — only these ZIP-level roll-ups.
| Violation type | Cases | Still open | Median days to close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Structure Condition Violation(s) | 558 | 50 | 6.0 days |
| Land Use Violation(s) | 348 | 36 | 6.0 days |
| Property Abatement | 289 | 4 | 7.0 days |
| Work Without Permit | 80 | 9 | 11 days |
| Unspecified | 1 | 1 | — |
See every violation type citywide on the Austin code complaints explorer.
Austin Public Health has scored 3,556 inspections at 531 facilities in ZIP 78701, averaging 88.5/100. Of those scored visits, 1,654 scored 90 or above, 1,586 scored 80–89 and 316 scored below 80. The average weighs every visit rather than every restaurant, so a facility inspected more often counts more toward it. Austin Public Health publishes in irregular batches with weeks of lag.
Counting each of the 531 facilities once, at its most recent scored visit: the median score is 91/100, 303 currently sit at 90 or above, and 43 are below 80 (8.1% of them). That is a different measure from the visit counts above, which weigh a frequently-inspected kitchen more heavily.
5 of 531 inspected facilities. Ties are common at 100, so this is a slice of the top, not a ranking of the ZIP.
The 5 most recent of 43 facilities in 78701 whose last scored visit came in under 80.
A score under 80 records what one inspector found on one day. It is routinely corrected at the next visit, it is not a closure, and it is not a statement about the food. Open a facility to see whether its next inspection has already landed.
Search every scored inspection by restaurant name on the Austin restaurant health inspection explorer.
78701 has 161 bars and restaurants reporting $19,477,687 in mixed-beverage sales in August 2026, per Texas Comptroller TABC data — #1 by those sales of the 47 Austin-area ZIP codes that reported that month. That is 28.5% of the $68,286,880 reported across every Austin-area ZIP for the same month.
| Venue | August 2026 receipts |
|---|---|
| JW MARRIOTT AUSTIN110 E 2ND ST | $1,114,300 |
| PROPER HOTEL600 W 2ND ST | $852,478 |
| WLS BEVERAGE COMPANY304 E CESAR CHAVEZ ST | $510,876 |
| FAIRMONT AUSTIN HOTEL101 RED RIVER ST | $478,864 |
| COMEDY MOTHERSHIP320 E 6TH ST | $435,037 |
Only businesses holding a Texas mixed-beverage permit file these returns, so beer-and-wine-only bars, BYOB restaurants, coffee shops and every unlicensed kitchen in 78701 are absent from this count entirely. “Top” here means alcohol receipts reported to the state, not quality or popularity. A venue that closed keeps appearing until it stops filing, and August 2026 is the most recent month the Comptroller has published — not the current one.
Compare every Austin-area venue month by month on the Austin bar and restaurant sales explorer.
1 City of Austin neighborhood planning area has a boundary containing the centroid of ZIP 78701. These two geographies do not nest. A planning area can straddle several ZIPs and a ZIP can cover parts of several planning areas, so read this as “overlaps”, never as “78701 contains” or “is inside”. The test here is a single point — the ZIP’s centroid — so a planning area covering the edge of 78701 but not its middle will be missing from this list.
Boundaries: City of Austin neighborhood planning areas. Overlap is computed by point-in-polygon against each ZIP’s centroid, which is a coarse test and is the reason this list is short.
This site publishes no economic figures at ZIP level — no ZIP-level income, employment or business counts are held here, and none are estimated from county numbers. What follows describes Travis County, the county ZIP 78701 sits in (100% of its 311 requests carry that county). A single county contains ZIP codes with very different economies, so treat these figures as the surrounding context, not as a description of 78701.
Unemployment and labor force: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (LAUS) via FRED. Population: U.S. Census Bureau annual estimate via FRED.
Across Travis County, Austin 311 has recorded 581,018 service requests spanning 61 ZIP codes, closing half of the last 12 months' requests within 25 hours. That corpus is City of Austin 311 only, so it counts requests made to Austin at addresses in the county — a meaningful figure for Travis, a partial one anywhere Austin is not the service provider.
Full jobs, wages and housing figures are on the Travis County economy page.
Ranked by distance between ZIP centroids, so these are the nearest centres rather than a strict list of bordering ZIPs — a large ZIP can share a border and still sit further out on this measure.
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ZIP code 78701 is in Austin, Texas, in Travis County. On this site it is grouped under Central Austin. City of Austin neighborhood planning areas whose boundary contains the 78701 centroid include Downtown. ZIP codes are postal delivery geographies, not city or council-district boundaries, so a ZIP can cross both.
This site publishes no crime data and no safety score for any Austin ZIP code, so it cannot answer that question and does not try to. What it can tell you is what residents reported and what the city acted on: 11,170 311 service requests were filed in 78701 in the most recent 12 months of data (through September 17, 2026), 1,276 code enforcement cases have been opened there in total, and 100 of those are still open. Report counts are not a safety rating and should not be read as one: a ZIP that files more 311 requests may simply have residents who report more, and a code complaint is an allegation the city has not necessarily upheld. Source: City of Austin open data, datasets xwdj-i9he and 6wtj-zbtb.
648 311 service requests in ZIP 78701 were still open or in progress as of September 17, 2026 — 618 open and 30 in progress. Residents filed 11,170 requests there in the most recent 12 months of data and 871 in the most recent 30 days. Source: City of Austin 311 service requests, dataset xwdj-i9he.
Half of the 311 requests opened in ZIP 78701 in the last 12 months and since closed were closed within 11 hours, and nine in ten within 8.0 days. That is 14 hours faster than the citywide median of 25 hours. Both figures are computed the same way — median hours from opened to closed, over requests opened in the same 12-month window — which is what makes comparing them meaningful. A median describes the middle case, not the worst one. Source: City of Austin 311, dataset xwdj-i9he.
Austin Code has opened 1,276 enforcement cases at addresses in ZIP 78701, of which 100 are not yet closed. Closed cases took a median of 7.0 days to resolve. A code case records an allegation that was investigated, not a finding of wrongdoing, and this site publishes no case addresses. Source: City of Austin Code Cases, dataset 6wtj-zbtb.
Austin Public Health has scored 3,556 inspections at 531 distinct facilities in ZIP 78701, averaging 88.5/100 across those visits. That average weighs every inspection equally, so a restaurant inspected more often counts more toward it. Austin Public Health publishes in irregular batches with weeks of lag, so the newest score on file is not necessarily from this week. Source: City of Austin Open Data Portal, dataset ecmv-9xxi.
Taking each restaurant in ZIP 78701 at its most recent scored visit, the median score is 91 out of 100 across 531 facilities. 303 of them currently sit at 90 or above and 43 at their last visit came in below 80 — 8.1% of the ZIP's inspected facilities. The highest most-recent scores on file here include Alfred Coffee (100), Dean's One Trick Pony (100), Line ATX Restaurant, The (100). This counts one score per restaurant, not one per visit, so a frequently-inspected kitchen does not pull the figure on its own. A score grades a single inspection on a single day against a checklist — it is not a rating of the food or of the restaurant, and a low score is routinely corrected on the next visit. Newest inspection on file in this ZIP: August 25, 2026. Source: Austin Public Health, dataset ecmv-9xxi.
161 businesses holding a Texas mixed-beverage permit reported sales in ZIP 78701 for August 2026, totalling $19,477,687 in alcohol receipts — #1 by those sales of the 47 Austin-area ZIP codes that reported that month. The highest-grossing that month were JW MARRIOTT AUSTIN ($1,114,300), PROPER HOTEL ($852,478), WLS BEVERAGE COMPANY ($510,876). "Top" here means alcohol sales reported to the Texas Comptroller, not quality, popularity or crowd — and only businesses with a mixed-beverage permit file at all, so beer-and-wine-only bars, BYOB restaurants and coffee shops are absent entirely. Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Mixed Beverage Gross Receipts, dataset naix-2893.
No economic data is published on this site at ZIP level, so the honest answer is the county one: 78701 sits in Travis County, where unemployment was 3.9% in July 1, 2026 with a labor force of 877,417. A single county contains ZIP codes with very different economies, so treat this as context rather than a description of 78701. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).
This site holds civic data for the Austin-area ZIP codes covered by City of Austin 311, code enforcement and restaurant inspections — roughly the ZIPs from 78701 through 78759 plus a ring of suburban and extraterritorial ZIPs such as 78617, 78653, 78660 and 78613. The full list, with 311 and code-case counts for each, is at austintexasthings.com/zip.
