Lost Creek, Texas.
Typical home $1,291,664 (+2.9% in a year), asking rent $6,250 . Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,951 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $36,884 +3%
- $1,254,780$1,291,664 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $106,126 +9%
- $1,185,538$1,291,664 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.
- Lost Creek$6,780
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Lost Creek, TX rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lost Creek, Travis County, Texas
Lost Creek, in Travis County, had 1,276 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $165,598 a year and half less, against $99,611 across Travis County. Unemployment in Travis County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Travis County work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lost Creek is a small community in Travis County, in the Austin area of central Texas. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and homes and rents are priced high, so it is a place of comfortable means. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are very hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, restaurants and hotels. The commute is short. Across Travis County, some of the largest workplaces are The University of Texas at Austin, Tesla and Austin ISD. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Lake Austin and Lake Travis are both a short drive away and offer time on the water. Among the museums close by are the Blanton Museum of Art and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, each a short drive from town. Circuit of the Americas, a race track, is a longer drive away.
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- 16 mintypical commute
What people in Travis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Travis County had 934,650 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 75°. About 36 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Austin-camp Mabry weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Travis County
- The University of Texas at AustinUniversity or college18,190
- TeslaAutomobile manufacturing13,620
- Austin ISDSchool district10,467FTE
- Samsung Austin SemiconductorSemiconductor devices manufacturing5,016
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury4,819
- Applied MaterialsSemiconductor making machinery manufacturing4,325
- Rosendin ElectricElectrical contractors4,291
- Facility Solutions GroupElectric contracting4,087
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,054 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 195,095 people in all across the county; Lost Creek has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lost Creek’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Travis County and the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
Lost Creek home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lost Creek$1,291,664
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Lost Creek listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Lost Creek16.60%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lost Creek22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lost Creek5
Zip codes with a Lost Creek address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lost Creek — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.