Williamson County, Texas Eviction Risk: Low

Williamson County posts a county-wide average eviction-risk score of 3/10, placing it in the Low-risk tier, but that headline figure masks meaningful variation across the 17 cities that make up this fast-growing Texas market. Individual city scores span from 2.4 to 3.9, a 1.5-point spread that matters considerably when you are deciding where to place capital. With a total county population of roughly 472,500 and an average rent of $1,843, Williamson County draws landlords and investors who want proximity to the Austin metro without the regulatory friction of Travis County.

Despite that Low overall rating, context is critical: at rank 15 of 254 Texas eviction laws counties, only 14 counties carry higher eviction risk. That puts Williamson County solidly in the higher-risk third of the state, not the comfortable middle. A rent burden rate of 30% of income and a renter share of 32.4% of households signal a rental population that is stretched, not insulated. Landlords who do their city-level homework will find genuinely favorable pockets, but the county average should not breed complacency.

The cities inside Williamson County

Hutto is the highest-risk city in the county at 3.9/10, with a population of 35,483. Just below it, Thrall scores 3.6/10, followed by Brushy Creek and Taylor, both at 3.5/10. These eastern and outlying communities share higher poverty concentration and thinner rental demand than the county seat, giving landlords less pricing power and a narrower margin for absorbing a contested eviction.

The contrast toward the west is sharp. Round Rock, the county's largest city at 127,786 residents, scores just 2.4/10, the lowest in the county. Cedar Park at 2.9/10 and Georgetown at 3.1/10 are comparably favorable. Risk here is genuinely hyper-local: a landlord owning in Round Rock eviction risk operates in a materially different environment than one two ZIP codes east in Hutto, even though both properties sit inside the same county line.

State-level laws that apply here

Every property in Williamson County operates under Tex. Prop. Code § 91 and § 92 (Residential Tenancies). The Texas eviction process is among the faster ones in the country: Texas requires only a 3-day notice for non-payment of rent, lease violations, holdover tenants, and end-of-lease situations. Squatters and unauthorized occupants receive a 0-day notice under Tex. Prop. Code § 24.011, as added by SB-38. An uncontested case typically resolves in 21 to 30 days; a contested case runs 45 to 90 days.

On Texas eviction costs, landlords should budget a court filing fee of $54 to $125, a sheriff lockout fee of $50 to $175, and attorney fees that commonly run $500 to $3,500 depending on complexity. Texas has no just-cause eviction requirement and no rent control, and state law explicitly preempts local rent-control ordinances under TX Local Gov Code § 214.902. For a full breakdown of Texas security deposit limits and Texas tenant protections, the statewide guides on this site carry the current statutory detail.

With a county poverty rate of 6.6% and renters making up 32.4% of households, Williamson County's low average score is real but uneven, and the city-by-city grid above is the fastest way to pinpoint where risk concentrates.