Am I in the City of Austin?
Are you in the City of Austin?
Check any Austin-area address against the city's official full-purpose boundary - the line that decides which rules, taxes, and services apply.
Common questions
What does full-purpose jurisdiction mean?
It means the City of Austin is your city government: Austin's rules apply, you pay city property tax, you vote in Austin elections, and city services like Austin Resource Recovery and Austin 311 cover the address.
What if my address is outside the full-purpose boundary?
Then Austin's city rules may not apply to you. The address could be in Austin's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), a limited-purpose district, a neighboring city like Pflugerville or Round Rock, or unincorporated Travis County. This check answers the full-purpose question only; the county property-tax record is the place to check taxes.
Why does this matter?
It decides which rules apply to things like noise, short-term rentals, tree removal, building permits, and who picks up your trash. Reporting a problem to Austin 311 only works when Austin actually covers the address.
My mailing address says Austin. Doesn't that settle it?
No. USPS city names follow mail routes, not legal boundaries. Plenty of 'Austin, TX' mailing addresses are outside the city, and the only way to know is a boundary check like this one.
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