Austin, TX — income, home value, property tax, and sales tax.
ZIP code 78615, near Austin, sits in middle-income territory, with a median household income of $80,938 and per-capita income of $33,785. Homes here carry a median value of $441,200, and the county-level effective property tax rate of 1.61% means owners pay a meaningful share of that value annually. Sales tax comes in at 6.25%. Together these figures describe a community where earnings are solid but not affluent, and where property taxes tied to higher home values shape the cost of living more than the sales tax rate does.
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