A large spring-fed pool
The City describes a pool of about three acres fed by underground springs. Depth varies substantially across it, so the whole pool should not be treated as a shallow swimming area.[1]
Austin ZIP code field guide 78704 Central Austin
Travis County · #1 of 64 ZIPs in the 311 feed by all-time volume
Barton Springs Pool is a spring-fed swimming destination within Zilker Park, with a deeper ecological story beneath the surface. Plan the swim around the City’s current visiting page and use the adjacent interpretation to understand the springs.
The local field guide
78704: Barton Springs, from the pool to the aquifer
Barton Springs Pool is a spring-fed swimming destination within Zilker Park, with a deeper ecological story beneath the surface. Plan the swim around the City’s current visiting page and use the adjacent interpretation to understand the springs.
3 linked sources · CheckedHabitat as well as recreation
Barton Springs is habitat for the endangered Barton Springs salamander. The site’s ecological importance is part of the reason to follow the pool’s specific rules rather than treating it as an ordinary outdoor pool.[1]
An introduction to the aquifer
The City identifies the adjacent Splash! exhibit as a place to learn about the springs and the biology and geology of the Edwards Aquifer. Check exhibit access alongside swimming plans.[1]
Plan a little better
Before you go
- Use the current swimming schedule
- The City’s visiting page distinguishes swimming periods and cleaning closures. Check that page for the day you intend to swim, including whether lifeguards are on duty.[2]
- Follow current entry instructions
- Ticketing and entrances can change during facility work. Use the City’s current Visit Barton Springs Pool page rather than older construction notices or saved directions.[2]
A few things to know
Is the entire pool shallow?
No. The City reports varying depths, including deep sections. Review the facility information and choose an area appropriate to your swimming ability.[1]
Does a ZIP code describe an exact neighborhood boundary?
No. Postal ZIP codes organize mail delivery. Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are generalized statistical geographies, and neither should replace a neighborhood boundary or a specific park entrance.[3]
Sources & research notes
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.
- About Barton Springs Pool | Austin Parks and Recreation | AustinTexas.govaustintexas.gov · Checked 2026-09-05
- Visit Barton Springs Pool | City of Austin Services | AustinTexas.govaustintexas.gov · Checked 2026-09-05
- ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs)U.S. Census Bureau · Checked 2026-09-05
As of September 17, 2026, Austin ZIP code 78704 had 853 open 311 service requests and 186 open code enforcement cases, out of 42,063 311 requests and 5,227 code cases recorded there since July 14, 2014, according to City of Austin open data (datasets xwdj-i9he and 6wtj-zbtb). Austin Public Health has scored 403 restaurants and food facilities in 78704, with a median most-recent score of 91/100 and 34 currently below 80 as of August 25, 2026; 83 businesses with a Texas mixed-beverage permit reported $7,393,330 in alcohol sales here in August 2026, per Texas Comptroller data (dataset naix-2893).
Map of 78704
The 2020 Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 78704, outlined against its 10 nearest neighbours, with 59 of the 403 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.
ZIP 78704Neighbouring ZIP (click for its page)Inspected 90 or aboveInspected 80–89Inspected Below 80
Boundary: 2020 Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 78704, 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.
- 19,547
- 311 requests, last 12 months
- 21h
- Median time to close4.3 hours faster than the city
- 853
- 311 requests open now
- 186
- Open code casesof 5,227 ever opened
- 403
- Restaurants inspected
- 91.3
- Mean inspection scoreout of 100
- 34
- Restaurants below 80at their last visit, of 403
- 83
- Bars & restaurants reportingmixed-beverage permits, August 2026
- $7.4M
- Alcohol salesAugust 2026, alcohol only
78704 civic activity, month by month
Austin 311 logged 17,987 service requests in ZIP 78704 across the 11 complete months shown, with the busiest being April 2026 at 1,856. The final bar is the current month and is still filling.
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| Month | 311 opened | 311 closed | Code cases |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | 1,842 | 1,933 | 122 |
| November 2025 | 1,378 | 1,314 | 115 |
| December 2025 | 1,314 | 1,422 | 106 |
| January 2026 | 1,487 | 1,457 | 164 |
| February 2026 | 1,426 | 1,386 | 108 |
| March 2026 | 1,706 | 1,577 | 144 |
| April 2026 | 1,856 | 1,860 | 185 |
| May 2026 | 1,803 | 1,846 | 180 |
| June 2026 | 1,828 | 1,850 | 128 |
| July 2026 | 1,760 | 1,776 | 181 |
| August 2026 | 1,587 | 1,623 | 146 |
| September 2026(to date) | 864 | 917 | 90 |
What 78704 calls 311 about
The 8 most-filed request types in ZIP 78704, all time. Together they account for 19,850 of the 42,063 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 | 5,175 | 2,875 | 19 |
| Garbage | Waste & Recycling | 3,317 | 1,616 | 44 |
| Request Code Officer | Code Compliance & Property | 3,061 | 1,542 | 190 |
| Non Emergency Noise/Alarm | Police & Public Safety | 1,984 | 129 | 11 |
| Recycling | Waste & Recycling | 1,871 | 864 | 31 |
| Other | Other | 1,668 | 861 | 5 |
| Compost | Waste & Recycling | 1,525 | 776 | 21 |
| Park Maintenance - Grounds | Parks & Trees | 1,249 | 623 | 47 |
Compare against every Austin ZIP on the Austin 311 explorer.
Code enforcement in 78704
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land Use Violation(s) | 1,757 | 51 | 2.0 days |
| Property Abatement | 1,695 | 35 | 4.0 days |
| Structure Condition Violation(s) | 1,491 | 83 | 5.0 days |
| Work Without Permit | 283 | 16 | 4.0 days |
| Unspecified | 1 | 1 | — |
See every violation type citywide on the Austin code complaints explorer, or the repeat offender landlord registry behind the 344 flagged cases here.
Restaurant health inspections in 78704
Austin Public Health has scored 2,105 inspections at 403 facilities in ZIP 78704, averaging 91.3/100. Of those scored visits, 1,467 scored 90 or above, 484 scored 80–89 and 154 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.
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Scored 90+
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Scored 80–89
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Where 78704’s restaurants stand today
Counting each of the 403 facilities once, at its most recent scored visit: the median score is 91/100, 245 currently sit at 90 or above, and 34 are below 80 (8.4% of them). That is a different measure from the visit counts above, which weigh a frequently-inspected kitchen more heavily.
Highest most-recent scores
5 of 403 inspected facilities. Ties are common at 100, so this is a slice of the top, not a ranking of the ZIP.
- Athena Montessori AcademyAugust 4, 2026 · 9 scored visits100 out of 100 — Scored 90 or above
- Dawson Elementary SchoolMay 27, 2026 · 13 scored visits100 out of 100 — Scored 90 or above
- Travis High SchoolMay 19, 2026 · 12 scored visits100 out of 100 — Scored 90 or above
- Travis Heights Elementary SchoolMay 14, 2026 · 13 scored visits100 out of 100 — Scored 90 or above
- HEB Corp #755April 2, 2026 · 3 scored visits100 out of 100 — Scored 90 or above
Most recently scored below 80
The 5 most recent of 34 facilities in 78704 whose last scored visit came in under 80.
- Barton Hill Food MartAugust 24, 2026 · averages 90.2 across its history75 out of 100 — Scored below 80
- Bluebonnet Food MartAugust 19, 2026 · averages 82 across its history74 out of 100 — Scored below 80
- Toss Pizzeria and PubJuly 29, 2026 · averages 80.8 across its history70 out of 100 — Scored below 80
- Barley Bean South LamarJuly 13, 2026 · averages 85 across its history70 out of 100 — Scored below 80
- OpaJuly 9, 2026 · averages 84.4 across its history78 out of 100 — Scored below 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.
Bars and restaurants in 78704
78704 has 83 bars and restaurants reporting $7,393,330 in mixed-beverage sales in August 2026, per Texas Comptroller TABC data — #2 by those sales of the 47 Austin-area ZIP codes that reported that month. That is 10.8% of the $68,286,880 reported across every Austin-area ZIP for the same month.
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Permit holders reporting
$7.4M
Alcohol sales, August 2026
$89K
Mean per reporting venuea few large venues pull this up
| Venue | August 2026 receipts |
|---|---|
| MATT'S EL RANCHO, INC.2613 S LAMAR BLVD | $716,892 |
| ABA AUSTIN1011 S CONGRESS AVE STE 180 | $409,829 |
| PERLA'S SEAFOOD & OYSTER BAR1400 S CONGRESS AVE STE B100 | $282,530 |
| LORO ASIAN SMOKEHOUSE2115 S LAMAR BLVD | $250,522 |
| THE PALAZIO501 E BEN WHITE BLVD | $216,366 |
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 78704 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.
Neighborhoods in and around 78704
1 City of Austin neighborhood planning area has a boundary containing the centroid of ZIP 78704. 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 “78704 contains” or “is inside”. The test here is a single point — the ZIP’s centroid — so a planning area covering the edge of 78704 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.
Economy and county context for 78704
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 78704 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 78704.
- 3.9%
- Travis County unemploymentJuly 1, 2026
- 877,417
- County labor force56% of the Austin metro’s
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.
ZIP codes near 78704
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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Common questions about 78704
Where is 78704 located?
ZIP code 78704 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 78704 centroid include Galindo. ZIP codes are postal delivery geographies, not city or council-district boundaries, so a ZIP can cross both.
Is 78704 safe?
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: 19,547 311 service requests were filed in 78704 in the most recent 12 months of data (through September 17, 2026), 5,227 code enforcement cases have been opened there in total, and 186 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.
How many 311 requests are open in 78704?
853 311 service requests in ZIP 78704 were still open or in progress as of September 17, 2026 — 816 open and 37 in progress. Residents filed 19,547 requests there in the most recent 12 months of data and 1,411 in the most recent 30 days. Source: City of Austin 311 service requests, dataset xwdj-i9he.
How fast does Austin close 311 requests in 78704?
Half of the 311 requests opened in ZIP 78704 in the last 12 months and since closed were closed within 21 hours, and nine in ten within 12 days. That is 4.3 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.
How many code enforcement cases are there in 78704?
Austin Code has opened 5,227 enforcement cases at addresses in ZIP 78704, of which 186 are not yet closed. Closed cases took a median of 3.0 days to resolve. 344 cases are flagged as related to Austin's Repeat Offender Program for multifamily properties. 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.
How many restaurants in 78704 have been inspected?
Austin Public Health has scored 2,105 inspections at 403 distinct facilities in ZIP 78704, averaging 91.3/100 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.
How do restaurants in 78704 score on health inspections?
Taking each restaurant in ZIP 78704 at its most recent scored visit, the median score is 91 out of 100 across 403 facilities. 245 of them currently sit at 90 or above and 34 at their last visit came in below 80 — 8.4% of the ZIP's inspected facilities. The highest most-recent scores on file here include Athena Montessori Academy (100), Dawson Elementary School (100), Travis High School (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.
What are the top bars in 78704?
83 businesses holding a Texas mixed-beverage permit reported sales in ZIP 78704 for August 2026, totalling $7,393,330 in alcohol receipts — #2 by those sales of the 47 Austin-area ZIP codes that reported that month. The highest-grossing that month were MATT'S EL RANCHO, INC. ($716,892), ABA AUSTIN ($409,829), PERLA'S SEAFOOD & OYSTER BAR ($282,530). "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.
What is the economy like around 78704?
No economic data is published on this site at ZIP level, so the honest answer is the county one: 78704 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 78704. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).
What ZIP codes are in Austin?
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.
Where these numbers come from
- 311 service requests: City of Austin Open Data Portal, dataset xwdj-i9he. Newest request on this page: September 17, 2026. A 311 request records that someone reported something, not that the condition was verified.
- Code enforcement cases: City of Austin Open Data Portal, dataset 6wtj-zbtb. A case is an allegation that was investigated, not a finding.
- Restaurant inspections: Austin Public Health, dataset ecmv-9xxi. Published in irregular batches with weeks of lag. Newest scored inspection in this ZIP: August 25, 2026. A score grades one visit on one day against a checklist; it is not a rating of a restaurant.
- Mixed-beverage receipts: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, dataset naix-2893. Figures here are for August 2026, the most recent published month. Covers only businesses holding a mixed-beverage permit, and only their alcohol sales.
- ZIP boundary: U.S. Census Bureau 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, generalized for display (8.8 sq mi of land in 78704). Display geometry only: no figure on this page is assigned to a ZIP by this polygon — the ZIP on every record comes from the publishing agency.
- County economy: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. County-level only — this site holds no ZIP-level economic figures and estimates none.
- Twelve-month and 30-day windows are computed when the aggregates are rebuilt each night, not at the moment you load the page. This site publishes no crime data and no safety score for any ZIP, and no council-district figures — ZIP codes do not nest inside council districts.