{"id":54452,"date":"2025-11-18T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54452\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:58:12","slug":"which-austin-area-cities-are-best-for-texas-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54452\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Austin-area cities are best for Texas retirees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. News &amp; World Report <a href=\"https:\/\/realestate.usnews.com\/places\/rankings\/best-places-to-retire\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">unveiled its list<\/a> of the 250 best places to retire in America, a compilation that evaluated individual communities&#8217; quality of life, tax rates, senior care access and older population levels and migration trends. While Texas didn&#8217;t nab the top spot, it did cinch two Top 10 finishes courtesy two Houston-area suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>The Woodlands and Spring laid claim to the No. 4 and No. 5 rankings, with the Houston metro cities praised for their median home and rental values compared to some healthier median household incomes. Elsewhere in Texas, Victoria earned a No. 12 position, Pearland claimed the No. 17 spot, Conroe touted the No. 20 rank and League City rounded out the Top 25.<\/p>\n<p>Looking closer toward Texas&#8217; capital city, the report named the <a href=\"https:\/\/realestate.usnews.com\/places\/texas\/leander\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Austin-area suburb of Leander<\/a> No. 58 on the list, alongside other accomplishments like the third-best place to live in Texas, the No. 3 best small city in the U.S and a No. 8 ranking among the best overall places to live. Leander&#8217;s population skews above 81,000 people, with a median household income just shy of $141,000, a median home value of $492,064 and a median rental cost of $1,621 a month.<\/p>\n<p>North Austin&#8217;s tech hub, Round Rock, courted a No. 62 ranking, with Dell Technologies&#8217; stomping grounds praised as the No. 10 best place to live in Texas, the No. 9 best medium-sized city in America and the No. 28 overall best place to live. Its population inches above the 131,000 mark, with a median household income of $102,858, a median home value of \u00a0$446,967 and a median monthly rent price of $1,500.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the Austin area, Pflugerville ranked No. 75 among the best retiree communities in the U.S., with the suburb home to just shy of 68,000 people and a median household income of $121,424, a median home value of $411,902 and a median monthly rent clocking in at $1,679.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. News &amp; World Report unveiled its list of the 250 best places to retire in America, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2108,820,30063],"class_list":{"0":"post-54452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-mysaaustin","12":"tag-mysastaff","13":"tag-mysatravel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54452","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=54452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}