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%

Pflugerville$2,420/mo

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

Cedar Park$3,090/mo

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

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

Schools

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

Health

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

5Pflugerville

19Cedar Park

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

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

Left end = #1 in Texas. Showing the lists where the towns are furthest apart. All of Pflugerville’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

PflugervilleCedar Park

Snow a year0″0″

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

Outdoors & history

PflugervilleCedar Park

Trails18 mi 47 mi

Conserved land7.4%7.5%

Settled1965 1887

National Register places1 —

Archive photos—9

Famous people born here—1

Community

PflugervilleCedar Park

Library hours a week60 hrs 66 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.

PflugervilleCedar Park

Pflugerville ↔ Cedar Park14 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

PflugervilleCedar Park

People

Population 65,971Lowest 78,301Highest

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

Median age 37.3±0.7Lowest 5% above TX 37.7±0.7Highest 6% 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%±2Lowest TX: 25% 25.7%±1.5Highest 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+ 9.1%±0.9Lowest TX: 13.4% 11.3%±0.9Highest TX: 13.4%

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

Enrolled in collegeshare of residents 6.1%±1.4Highest TX: 6.2% 5.2%±0.6Lowest 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 $117,799±$7kLowest 50% above TX $129,545±$11kHighest 65% 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 $402,400±$12kLowest 42% above TX $513,600±$21kHighest 81% above TX

Rentmedian gross, monthly $1,932±$100Highest 38% above TX $1,846±$55Lowest 32% 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 $6,543Lowest 55% above TX $8,893Highest 110% above TX

Renters paying 30%+of income on rent 49.5%±7.6Lowest TX: 51.7% 52%±5.2Highest 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 6.1%Highest TX: 13.8% 5.9%Lowest TX: 13.8%

Housing

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

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

Getting to work

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

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

Work in townworking residents 7.5%Highest 7%Lowest

Typical commute distancemedian, straight-line 12.8 miLowest 13.8 miHighest

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

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

Between these townsresidents who work in the others 1% work in Cedar Park1% work in Pflugerville

Outdoors

Conserved landshare of the town 7.4%Lowest 7.5%Highest

Trailsmapped miles 18.1 miLowest 46.5 miHighest

Trail densitymiles per sq mi 0.7 miLowest 1.8 miHighest

Parks & preservesnamed on the map 34Lowest 45Highest

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

Schools

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

School district PREMIER HIGH SCHOOLS · IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLSHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - CENTRAL TEXAS · BASIS TEXAS

High school in town Hendrickson H SVista Ridge H S

Students per teacherat that high school 16.3Highest 15.3Lowest

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.

Pflugerville vs Cedar Park

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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