{"id":318188,"date":"2026-06-01T21:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/318188\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:46:19","slug":"austin-has-the-3rd-fastest-growing-renter-market-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/318188\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin has the 3rd fastest-growing renter market in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Texas&#8217; ever-growing population generates more demand among regional housing markets, one Central Texas ZIP Code has seen more growth than many others in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The 76537 ZIP Code in Jarrell (north of Georgetown) ranks No. 14 in RentCafe&#8217;s new study that analyzes the 50 fastest-growing &#8220;new neighborhoods&#8221; in America &#8220;that barely existed a decade ago.&#8221; Two more local ZIPs in Liberty Hill and Austin also made the cut.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/rental-market\/market-snapshots\/us-newest-neighborhoods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study<\/a> reviewed housing inventory and population growth across 32,000 U.S. ZIP Codes. It then narrowed down the search to the top 50 locales that experienced a 51 percent minimum surge in new housing units from 2014-2023.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Texas dominated the list with 17 of the nation&#8217;s 50 booming new neighborhoods. <\/p>\n<p>RentCafe determined that 76537 in Jarrell saw a 218 percent population growth over the last decade. To keep up with the city&#8217;s growth, housing inventory soared by 193 percent during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, there were just 3,939 residents living within the bounds of 76537, which stretches across both sides of I-35. During that same year, there were only 1,547 housing units in the area, which has since spiked to 4,538 units as of 2023. The ZIP Code now boasts a population of more than 12,526 residents, the study found.<br \/>Elsewhere in the Central Texas area, 78642 in Liberty Hill and 78738 in Austin and Bee Cave respectively ranked as the 31st and 38th fastest-growing ZIPs in the U.S. over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>The report&#8217;s findings revealed the Liberty Hill area has more than doubled its housing inventory to 8,399 units, up from about 3,500 units in 2014. The area&#8217;s population has also more than doubled, from 9,867 to 24,146 residents as of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The West Austin and Bee Cave-area population in 78738 has surged 108.7 percent over the last decade, from 13,794 to 28,790 residents, and housing inventory soared 135 percent to keep pace with the growth.<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 &#8220;newest&#8221; neighborhoods in the U.S., says RentCafe, are:<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 \u2013 Chino, California (91708)No. 2 \u2013 Timnath, Colorado (80547)No. 3 \u2013 Colorado Springs (80927)No. 4 \u2013 Fulshear, Texas (77441)No. 5 \u2013 Ponte Vedra, Florida (32081)No. 6 \u2013 Jersey City, New Jersey (07311)No. 7 \u2013 Fort Worth (76177)No. 8 \u2013 Colorado Springs (80924)No. 9 \u2013 Prosper, Texas (75078)No. 10 \u2013 Melissa, Texas (75454)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Texas&#8217; ever-growing population generates more demand among regional housing markets, one Central Texas ZIP Code has seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,113981,111,49381],"class_list":["post-318188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-movebuddha","tag-real-estate","tag-renters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}