A typical home in each town, bought with 20% down at 6.3% for 30 years, plus property tax at the town’s own rate and insurance. Change the numbers to fit you.

Down paymentRate%

Cedar Park$3,090/mo

Typical home $462K (Zillow) · tax rate 1.73% · or rent about $1,846/mo · Housing →

Pflugerville$2,420/mo

Typical home $367K (Zillow) · tax rate 1.63% · or rent about $1,932/mo · Housing →

The difference: $670 a month, about $8,000 a year, between Cedar Park and Pflugerville.

Estimates, not a quote: your price, rate, tax bill and insurance will differ. Tax rate = the Census median tax bill over the median home value.

Report cards

Cedar Park places higher on 19 of 26 TX lists

Our letter grades for safety, schools and health, then every Texas ranking list both towns are on. A grade is one measure; read the page behind it.

Safety

BCedar ParkSafer than 56% of U.S. towns C+PflugervilleSafer than 41% of U.S. towns

Schools

A−Cedar ParkBetter than 79% of districts in the state B−PflugervilleBetter than 52% of districts in the state

Health

ACedar ParkHealthier than 92% of U.S. towns APflugervilleHealthier than 85% of U.S. towns

19Cedar Park

5Pflugerville

Lists won, of 26 where both are ranked. Ties go to nobody.

Most new homesHousing · 535 towns #476#114 Closest to a top hospitalHealth · 632 towns #227#7 Best schoolsSchools · 583 towns #126#261 Most trailsOutdoors · 405 towns #29#117 Fewest uninsuredHealth · 652 towns #69#195 Most-used librariesLibraries · 183 towns #42#76 SafestSafety · 470 towns #163#244 Rent easiest to affordCost of living · 180 towns #99#68

Left end = #1 in Texas. Showing the lists where the towns are furthest apart. All of Cedar Park’s rankings →

Life in each

What daily life feels like in each

The weather, the land, the history and the people, row by row. None of it is a grade: more snow is a plus to a skier.

Seasons

Cedar ParkPflugerville

Snow a year0″0″

Hazard risk (U.S. pctl)30th 34th

Outdoors & history

Cedar ParkPflugerville

Trails47 mi 18 mi

Conserved land7.5%7.4%

Settled1887 1965

National Register places—1

Archive photos9 —

Famous people born here1 —

Community

Cedar ParkPflugerville

Library hours a week66 hrs 60 hrs

Posts this month0 0

Neighbors joined0 0

A dot marks the most on each row. Climate: NOAA 1991–2020 normals at the nearest station. Hazard risk: FEMA National Risk Index, expected yearly damage vs U.S. towns.

Where they are

14 miles apart

And the people who already live in one and work in the other.

Cedar ParkPflugerville

Cedar Park ↔ Pflugerville14 miles apart

Who commutes between them

486 Pflugerville residents work in Cedar Park (1.4% of its workers)

408 Cedar Park residents work in Pflugerville (1% of its workers)

Work & commute in Pflugerville →

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Only big differences vs Texas average

Cedar ParkPflugerville

People

Population 78,301Highest 65,971Lowest

Growth since 20102010 → 2020 census +58.6%Highest TX: +15.9% +38.9%Lowest TX: +15.9%

Median age 37.7±0.7Highest 6% above TX 37.3±0.7Lowest 5% above TX

Cedar Park and Pflugerville are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Kids under 18 25.7%±1.5Highest TX: 25% 25%±2Lowest TX: 25%

Cedar Park and Pflugerville are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Age 65+ 11.3%±0.9Highest TX: 13.4% 9.1%±0.9Lowest TX: 13.4%

Bachelor’s degree+adults 25+ 55.6%Highest TX: 33.8% 43%Lowest TX: 33.8%

Enrolled in collegeshare of residents 5.2%±0.6Lowest TX: 6.2% 6.1%±1.4Highest TX: 6.2%

Pflugerville and Cedar Park are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Cost of living

Household incomemedian $129,545±$11kHighest 65% above TX $117,799±$7kLowest 50% above TX

Cedar Park and Pflugerville are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Home valuemedian, owner-occupied $513,600±$21kHighest 81% above TX $402,400±$12kLowest 42% above TX

Rentmedian gross, monthly $1,846±$55Lowest 32% above TX $1,932±$100Highest 38% above TX

Pflugerville and Cedar Park are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Property taxmedian, yearly $8,893Highest 110% above TX $6,543Lowest 55% above TX

Renters paying 30%+of income on rent 52%±5.2Highest TX: 51.7% 49.5%±7.6Lowest TX: 51.7%

Cedar Park and Pflugerville are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Below poverty line 5.9%Lowest TX: 13.8% 6.1%Highest TX: 13.8%

Housing

Homeownersof occupied homes 66.7%Lowest TX: 62.6% 69.9%Highest TX: 62.6%

Typical home builtmedian year 2005Highest 13 yrs newer than TX 2004Lowest 12 yrs newer than TX

Getting to work

Average commuteone way 26 minLowest 4% below TX 27 minHighest about the TX average

Work from home 29.9%±2.3Highest TX: 14.4% 23.9%±2.5Lowest TX: 14.4%

Work in townworking residents 7%Lowest 7.5%Highest

Typical commute distancemedian, straight-line 13.8 miHighest 12.8 miLowest

Jobs per working residentover 1.5 = a job hub 0.66Highest 0.61Lowest

Top workplaceoutside town Austin (47%)Austin (50%)

Between these townsresidents who work in the others 1% work in Pflugerville1% work in Cedar Park

Outdoors

Conserved landshare of the town 7.5%Highest 7.4%Lowest

Trailsmapped miles 46.5 miHighest 18.1 miLowest

Trail densitymiles per sq mi 1.8 miHighest 0.7 miLowest

Parks & preservesnamed on the map 45Highest 34Lowest

Street connectivityintersections per sq mi, a walkability measure 85.4Highest 75.2Lowest

Schools

Public school scoresrank in state, math + reading #126 of 583 in TX #261 of 583 in TX

School district HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - CENTRAL TEXAS · BASIS TEXASPREMIER HIGH SCHOOLS · IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

High school in town Vista Ridge H SHendrickson H S

Students per teacherat that high school 15.3Lowest 16.3Highest

Texas average“±” Census margin of errorACS 2020–2024

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2010 & 2020 censuses, LEHD commute flows; Zillow Home Value Index; NCES Common Core of Data; FBI crime reporting; CDC PLACES; FEMA National Risk Index; NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020; USGS PAD-US and OpenStreetMap. “±” is the Census margin of error; differences inside it are never called. Property tax is top-coded by the Census at $10,000+. There is no overall score: which town is better depends on what matters to you.

Cedar Park vs Pflugerville

Two towns, two different strengths

Where they part ways

A typical home costs $670 more a month in Cedar Park

Cedar Park places higher on 19 of 26 TX lists

What daily life feels like in each

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