Williamson, Travis and Bastrop counties
Towns We Serve Around Round Rock, TX
Eleven towns, each with its own ground, homes and rules.
We work across Round Rock and the towns around it in Williamson, Travis and Bastrop counties. The ground changes a lot in a short drive, from thin soil over limestone to deep black clay, so each town page covers that town's own soil, the age of its homes, its permit rules, its water provider's rules and whether it sits over the Edwards Aquifer. No two pages are the same page with a new name.
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What have you noticed?
Mostly on Limestone
- Cedar Park No very high shrink-swell clay in our USDA sample, and soaker hoses allowed at any time through three drought stages.
- Leander 47.1% of its homes built in the 2010s, and a city page that quotes the state's engineering law on slabs.
- Liberty Hill Shallow soils with rock less than 3 feet down under most of our sample, and most homes built since 2010.
- Georgetown 92% over the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, and a soil that shares the town's name.
- Brushy Creek Almost no very high clay, but a buried clay layer under nearly half our sample, and no city permit.
On the Break
- Wells Branch: chalk, limestone and clay side by side, with 38.8% of homes from the 1980s.
Mostly on Clay
- Pflugerville Nearly half our sample on Houston Black clay, and a drought plan that names foundations.
- Hutto 51.0% of homes built in the 2000s, much of it on deep Branyon clay.
- Manor None of the towns we serve has more very high clay; 92% of our sample points landed on it.
- Taylor The oldest homes we serve, and, per its city checklist, separate rules for pier and beam houses.
- Elgin Sandy topsoil over active clay, and an older stock of homes.
Why the Town Matters
Two towns on our list show the gap. Our USDA sample put 92% of Manor on very high shrink-swell clay, and 0% of Cedar Park. That's the difference between a slab resting on deep clay that moves with every dry summer and a slab with limestone a foot or less below. Our Round Rock soil guide compares every town.
The rules vary as much as the ground. Round Rock charges $125 for a foundation repair permit and Georgetown $50 plus a $10 technology fee, and both want an engineer's stamp on the plan. Brushy Creek, outside any city, has no city permit at all. Our permits guide lines them up.
Don't See Your Town?
Call and ask. A town gets its own page when we've finished researching that town, and not before.