Austin ZIP code field guide 78726 West & Northwest

Travis County · #35 of 64 ZIPs in the 311 feed by all-time volume

In this northwest Austin ZIP, it matters which kind of green space you are looking at. Trailhead Neighborhood Park is in the city’s park directory, while Concordia’s nature preserve protects habitat and archaeological features under restricted access. A large green patch on the map is not automatically a public hiking destination.

78726 in context2020 Census ZCTA outlines · Postal-area approximations

The local field guide

78726: public parkland beside protected habitat

2 linked sources · Checked Sep 5, 2026

Make Trailhead your park reference

The city lists Trailhead Neighborhood Park at 10984 Boulder Lane, Austin, TX 78726. That named park is a more precise starting point for a visit than the center of the ZIP polygon.[1]

Understand the preserve’s purpose

Concordia describes approximately 250 acres of its campus as a nature and wildlife preserve under a conservation easement with Travis County. Its role includes habitat protection, research and preservation of archaeological features.[2]

Do not plan a walk-in preserve visit

The university explicitly states that the preserve is closed to the public. Treat its description as local ecological context, not as an invitation to enter or a substitute for an authorized access arrangement.[2]

Plan a little better

Before you go

Choose a destination with stated access: For a public park visit, start with the city’s Trailhead listing. Do not transfer the park’s public-access status to Concordia’s preserve.[1][2]
Read the landscape through its watershed: Concordia explains that tributaries on its preserve feed Bull Creek. That watershed context helps explain the emphasis on hydrology and habitat protection, without implying public access to those tributaries.[2]

A few things to know

Is Concordia’s nature preserve open for public hiking?

No. The university’s preserve page says it is closed to the public. Do not enter based on a map label or an old third-party trail recommendation.[2]

Where is Trailhead Neighborhood Park?

Austin’s official park directory lists it at 10984 Boulder Lane with ZIP 78726. Check the directory and posted park notices for your visit.[1]

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.

Park Directory | Austin Parks and Recreation | AustinTexas.govCity of Austin Parks and Recreation · Checked 2026-09-05
Nature & Wildlife PreserveConcordia University Texas · Checked 2026-09-05

As of September 17, 2026, Austin ZIP code 78726 had 107 open 311 service requests and 11 open code enforcement cases, out of 3,046 311 requests and 233 code cases recorded there since August 14, 2016, according to City of Austin open data (datasets xwdj-i9he and 6wtj-zbtb). Austin Public Health has scored 70 restaurants and food facilities in 78726, with a median most-recent score of 95.5/100 and 2 currently below 80 as of August 19, 2026; 6 businesses with a Texas mixed-beverage permit reported $344,081 in alcohol sales here in August 2026, per Texas Comptroller data (dataset naix-2893).

Map of 78726

The 2020 Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 78726, outlined against its 10 nearest neighbours, with 60 of the 70 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 19, 2026.

ZIP 78726Neighbouring ZIP (click for its page)Inspected 90 or aboveInspected 80–89Inspected Below 80

Boundary: 2020 Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 78726, 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.

1,256
311 requests, last 12 months: 36h
Median time to close11 hours slower than the city: 107
311 requests open now: 11
Open code casesof 233 ever opened: 70
Restaurants inspected: 93.6
Mean inspection scoreout of 100: 2
Restaurants below 80at their last visit, of 70: 6
Bars & restaurants reportingmixed-beverage permits, August 2026: $344K
Alcohol salesAugust 2026, alcohol only

78726 civic activity, month by month

Austin 311 logged 1,159 service requests in ZIP 78726 across the 11 complete months shown, with the busiest being October 2025 at 166. The final bar is the current month and is still filling.

311 opened 311 closed month to date (partial)

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Monthly civic activity in ZIP 78726. 311 counts exclude requests the city marked duplicate or cancelled; code cases are counted by the month they were opened. Newest 311 record: September 17, 2026. Sources: City of Austin 311 (dataset xwdj-i9he) and Code Cases (dataset 6wtj-zbtb).
Month	311 opened	311 closed	Code cases
October 2025	166	153	10
November 2025	84	87	9
December 2025	96	100	3
January 2026	82	85	4
February 2026	64	67	4
March 2026	82	68	11
April 2026	114	113	8
May 2026	119	107	6
June 2026	126	141	6
July 2026	115	126	6
August 2026	111	105	11
September 2026(to date)	62	55	6

What 78726 calls 311 about

The 8 most-filed request types in ZIP 78726, all time. Together they account for 1,590 of the 3,046 requests ever recorded there — the rest are spread across dozens of smaller categories, so this is a top slice and not a full breakdown.

Top 8 of every 311 request type recorded in ZIP 78726. Source: City of Austin 311 service requests, dataset xwdj-i9he.
Request type	Category	All time	Last 12 mo	Open
Garbage	Waste & Recycling	372	141	7
Bulk	Waste & Recycling	228	137	7
Recycling	Waste & Recycling	214	103	6
Request Code Officer	Code Compliance & Property	197	93	15
Non Emergency Noise/Alarm	Police & Public Safety	183	7	1
Traffic Signal - Maintenance	Transportation & Streets	143	49	2
Parking Violation Enforcement	Transportation & Streets	128	61	0
Compost	Waste & Recycling	125	59	1

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Code enforcement in 78726

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.

The 5 most common violation types of 233 cases recorded in ZIP 78726. Source: City of Austin Code Cases, dataset 6wtj-zbtb.
Violation type	Cases	Still open	Median days to close
Structure Condition Violation(s)	105	5	4.0 days
Land Use Violation(s)	61	3	1.0 days
Property Abatement	54	1	1.0 days
Work Without Permit	12	1	3.0 days
Unspecified	1	1	—

See every violation type citywide on the Austin code complaints explorer.

Restaurant health inspections in 78726

Austin Public Health has scored 349 inspections at 70 facilities in ZIP 78726, averaging 93.6/100. Of those scored visits, 286 scored 90 or above, 58 scored 80–89 and 5 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+

Scored 80–89

Scored below 80

Where 78726’s restaurants stand today

Counting each of the 70 facilities once, at its most recent scored visit: the median score is 95.5/100, 54 currently sit at 90 or above, and 2 are below 80 (2.9% 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 70 inspected facilities. Ties are common at 100, so this is a slice of the top, not a ranking of the ZIP.

Most recently scored below 80

The 2 most recent of 2 facilities in 78726 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.

Bars and restaurants in 78726

78726 has 6 bars and restaurants reporting $344,081 in mixed-beverage sales in August 2026, per Texas Comptroller TABC data — #34 by those sales of the 47 Austin-area ZIP codes that reported that month. That is 0.5% of the $68,286,880 reported across every Austin-area ZIP for the same month.

Permit holders reporting

$344K

Alcohol sales, August 2026

$57K

Mean per reporting venuea few large venues pull this up

The 5 highest-grossing of the 6 mixed-beverage permit holders that filed for 78726 in August 2026. Alcohol sales only — a restaurant doing most of its business in food reports a fraction of its revenue here. Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, dataset naix-2893.
Venue	August 2026 receipts
MOVIEHOUSE & EATERY8300 N FM 620 RD BLDG B	$104,012
FLORES MEXICAN RESTAURANT8300 N FM 620 RD	$96,043
SHOOTERS BILLIARDS & SPORTS BAR11416 N FM 620	$58,406
AUSTIN RESORT BEVERAGE, LLC13500 FM 2769	$49,390
BELLISSIMA8300 N FM 620 RD STE 200	$32,376

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 78726 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.

Economy and county context for 78726

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 78726 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 78726.

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 78726

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 78726

Where is 78726 located?

ZIP code 78726 is in Austin, Texas, in Travis County. On this site it is grouped under West & Northwest. ZIP codes are postal delivery geographies, not city or council-district boundaries, so a ZIP can cross both.

Is 78726 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: 1,256 311 service requests were filed in 78726 in the most recent 12 months of data (through September 17, 2026), 233 code enforcement cases have been opened there in total, and 11 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 78726?

107 311 service requests in ZIP 78726 were still open or in progress as of September 17, 2026 — 104 open and 3 in progress. Residents filed 1,256 requests there in the most recent 12 months of data and 107 in the most recent 30 days. Source: City of Austin 311 service requests, dataset xwdj-i9he.

How fast does Austin close 311 requests in 78726?

Half of the 311 requests opened in ZIP 78726 in the last 12 months and since closed were closed within 36 hours, and nine in ten within 15 days. That is 11 hours slower 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 78726?

Austin Code has opened 233 enforcement cases at addresses in ZIP 78726, of which 11 are not yet closed. Closed cases took a median of 2.5 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.

How many restaurants in 78726 have been inspected?

Austin Public Health has scored 349 inspections at 70 distinct facilities in ZIP 78726, averaging 93.6/100 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 78726 score on health inspections?

Taking each restaurant in ZIP 78726 at its most recent scored visit, the median score is 95.5 out of 100 across 70 facilities. 54 of them currently sit at 90 or above and 2 at their last visit came in below 80 — 2.9% of the ZIP's inspected facilities. The highest most-recent scores on file here include HEB #024 (100), HEB #27- Anderson Mill (100), Spec's Liquors #77 (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 19, 2026. Source: Austin Public Health, dataset ecmv-9xxi.

What are the top bars in 78726?

6 businesses holding a Texas mixed-beverage permit reported sales in ZIP 78726 for August 2026, totalling $344,081 in alcohol receipts — #34 by those sales of the 47 Austin-area ZIP codes that reported that month. The highest-grossing that month were MOVIEHOUSE & EATERY ($104,012), FLORES MEXICAN RESTAURANT ($96,043), SHOOTERS BILLIARDS & SPORTS BAR ($58,406). "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 78726?

No economic data is published on this site at ZIP level, so the honest answer is the county one: 78726 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 78726. 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 19, 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 (11.6 sq mi of land in 78726). 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.