Texas · Census place 4872578

The Hills, Texas

The Hills is a village in Travis County, Texas with an estimated 2,342 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 561st largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,342
#561 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
-10.4%
-272 people
Land area
1.1 sq mi
Density
2,189 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: The Hills. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

The Hills population, 2020 to 2024

The Hills lost 272 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -10.4%. In the latest year it moved by -54.

2,61420202,52820212,46120222,39620232,3422024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,622. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

The Hills covers 1.07 square miles of land, for 2,189 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so The Hills is denser than the typical town.

What county The Hills is in

All of The Hills's residents live in Travis County, which had 1,363,767 residents in 2024. The Hills holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in The Hills

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps The Hills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 78738. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where The Hills is

The Census internal point of The Hills is at 30.346500, -97.986400. Austin, the capital, is 15.5 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lakeway, TX (19,056 people), 0.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Austin, TX, 14.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
30.346500, -97.986400
DMS
30°20'47.40"N 97°59'11.04"W
UTM
14N 597420.5E 3357616.8N
Geohash
9v6kdk2mp
Plus code
862482W7+HC

Daylight in The Hills

At 30.35° N, The Hills gets about 14 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near The Hills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Lakeway, 0.6 miles away, with 19,056 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of The Hills, TX?

2,342 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 272 (10.4%) from 2,614 in July 2020.

What county is The Hills in?

Travis County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover The Hills?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 78738.

How far is The Hills from Austin?

15.5 miles (25.0 km) in a straight line, heading ESE from The Hills.

What is the nearest larger city to The Hills?

Lakeway, TX, with 19,056 residents, 0.6 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.