Volente, Texas.
Typical home $1,018,327 (+2.0% in a year). Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,867 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,982 +2%
- $998,344$1,018,327 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $59,002 -5%
- $1,077,328$1,018,327 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.
- Volente$5,345
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Volente, TX rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Volente, Travis County, Texas
Volente is a village of 561 people in Travis County. Half its households earn more than $178,750 a year and half less, against $99,611 across Travis County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Volente is a small village on the shore of Lake Travis, home to a very small number of people. Residents are older than in most places, incomes run well above the county's, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Homes here are among the pricier in the area, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, summers are long and hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, and a good number work from home. The commute is a fairly long one for many. Across Travis County, some of the largest employers are The University of Texas at Austin, Austin ISD and Samsung Austin Semiconductor, and the county has been adding jobs.
Things to do. Hippie Hollow Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town, and Lake Travis, a reservoir, and the Pedernales River are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin and Hamilton Pool Preserve, known for its waterfall, are a longer drive away.
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- 321households
- 60%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What residents 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 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 72°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Austin Great Hills weather station, 9 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; Volente has one 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Volente’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.
Volente home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Volente$1,018,327
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Volente18
Zip codes with a Volente address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Volente — 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.