Sunset Valley, Texas.
Typical home $920,354 (-4.2% in a year), asking rent $1,499 . Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,368 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $39,912 -4%
- $960,266$920,354 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $71,254 -7%
- $991,608$920,354 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.
- Sunset Valley$4,831
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Sunset Valley, TX fell 4.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sunset Valley, Travis County, Texas
Sunset Valley is a city of 683 people in Travis County. Half its households earn more than $190,893 a year and half less, against $99,611 across Travis County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sunset Valley is a very small city, with a population that skews older than most places. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and household incomes run well above the county's, with very few residents living below the poverty line. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and homes here are valued far above what is typical for the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Travis County, the largest workplaces include The University of Texas at Austin, Austin ISD and Tesla. Unemployment in the county sits a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Barton Creek Greenbelt, a park, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Zilker Park, a garden, and Lake Austin, a reservoir, along with the Blanton Museum of Art. Winters are mild and summers are hot, so the outdoor places are easiest to enjoy in the cooler months.
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- 77%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 25 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 59° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Austin 6S weather station, 5 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; Sunset Valley 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Sunset Valley’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.
Sunset Valley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunset Valley$920,354
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Sunset Valley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunset Valley — 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.