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Wyldwood, Texas.

A community in Bastrop County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Bastrop County’s.

Living in Wyldwood, Bastrop County, Texas

Wyldwood, in Bastrop County, had 3,694 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $88,399 a year and half less, against $86,226 across Bastrop County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Bastrop County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bastrop County work in schools and health care, then construction.

People 3,694 in the 2020 census
Household income $88,399 the median, give or take $18,206 · Bastrop County: $86,226
Unemployment 4.0% Bastrop County, August 2026; 4.1% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Wyldwood for the Census survey to measure.
  • 1,445households
  • 4%below the poverty line
  • 40 mintypical commute
  • 14%work from home

What people in Bastrop County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care19%
  • Building trades14%
  • Professional and business services12%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Manufacturing9%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bastrop County had 23,427 jobs in 2025, 3.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 62° and 37°; warmest in August, 97° and 73° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 62° 37° F M A M J J A 97° 73° S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 62° and 37°; warmest in August, 97° and 73° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 62° 37° F M A M J J A 97° 73° S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 73°. About 38 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cedar Creek South weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Bastrop County

  1. Space Exploration TechnologiesGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing3,528
  2. Bastrop ISDSchool district1,578FTE
  3. Space Exploration TechnologiesSatellite communications equipment manufacturing1,486
  4. Elgin ISDSchool district791FTE
  5. H-E-BRetail736
  6. Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and SpaAuslp533
  7. TCS MechanicalProcess piping installation435
  8. H-E-BRetail332

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,740 people in all across the county; Wyldwood has one of its own. School districts come 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

  1. TornadoesVery high
  2. Inland floodingRelatively high
  3. Winter weatherRelatively high
  4. Heat wavesRelatively high
  5. LightningRelatively high
  6. Strong windRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wyldwood’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 Bastrop County.