Driftwood, Texas.
Typical home $914,074 (+0.7% in a year). Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,661 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,727 +1%
- $907,347$914,074 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43 +0%
- $914,031$914,074 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Driftwood$4,798
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Driftwood, TX rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Driftwood, Hays County, Texas
Driftwood, in Hays County, had 106 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Hays County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hays County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Driftwood is a small community in Hays County, Texas, where most people know their neighbors and the pace of life is quiet. The weather is shaped by the Texas heat: winters are mild with little or no snow, and summers are very hot. Rain falls fairly often across the year, so the landscape stays green for much of it.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services. Others work in retail shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Jobs in Hays County grew over the past year, which gives people in the area a steady base to work from.
Things to do. For a day out, the Circuit of the Americas, a race track, is a longer drive away. The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away and is a pleasant place to walk among native plants. Hamilton Pool Preserve, a waterfall, is another longer drive away and makes a good destination for a quiet afternoon outdoors.
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What people in Hays County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hays County had 98,495 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 36 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dripping Springs East weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hays County
- Texas State UniversityUniversity or college4,255
- Hays CisdSchool district3,139FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,349
- San Marcos CisdSchool district1,346FTE
- The Paradies ShopsSouvenir shops1,193
- Dripping Springs ISDSchool district1,074FTE
- H-E-BRetail908
- Rrh-denFamily restaurants, full service787
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 183 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,387 people in all across the county; Driftwood has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Driftwood’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Hays County and the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
Driftwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Driftwood$914,074
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Driftwood listings — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Driftwood26.76%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Driftwood61
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Driftwood8
Zip codes with a Driftwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Driftwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.