Live in Windsor Park
One-story ranch houses of the 1950s and 1960s on lots of about 8,800 square feet, three times Mueller's, bought for the yard and a typical value Zillow puts $262,000 below Mueller's across 51st Street, where most residents are zoned to an elementary rated D and a middle school rated F for 2025.
Windsor Park is the City of Austin's Windsor Park neighborhood planning area, about 1,525 acres between I-35 and Northeast Drive from the Mueller edge north to US 290, and the western half of the University Hills/Windsor Park plan the Council adopted in August 2007. The plan records farmland until the 1950s and a late-1950s subdivision of one-story ranch houses on a grid, and the appraisal roll dates 2,637 of its 2,899 dated single-family houses between 1950 and 1969, on a median lot of about 8,800 square feet. The 2020 census counted 14,833 residents, against 15,086 in 2010, and 3,579 of the 5,937 occupied homes were rented. Zillow put the typical Windsor Park home at $446,063 in August 2026, lower than a year earlier and $262,023 below its Mueller.
The lot is what you are buying, for less than two thirds of Mueller's price
The City of Austin's Windsor Park neighborhood planning area, as its open data portal draws it and the Windsor Park Neighborhood Plan Contact Team's bylaws describe it: US Highway 290 East on the north, Northeast Drive and Manor Road on the east, Interstate 35 on the west, and on the south the Mueller planned unit development, with the land between I-35 and Manor Road that the PUD leaves out, among it the water tower site, Troublemaker Studios and Rathgeber Village; about 1,525 acres. It is the western half of the University Hills/Windsor Park combined planning area. Mueller lies south across 51st Street, North Loop west across I-35, St. John and Coronado Hills north across US 290, University Hills east of Northeast Drive, and Pecan Springs-Springdale south and east of Manor Road.
Windsor Park is the City's Windsor Park planning area, about 1,525 acres between I-35 and Northeast Drive from the Mueller edge north to US 290, and the western half of the University Hills/Windsor Park plan the Council adopted on 9 August 2007. The plan records farmland of maize, corn and sorghum until the 1950s, Wheless Lane jogging along the old farm lines, and a late-1950s subdivision of one-story ranch houses on a grid. The appraisal roll agrees: of 2,899 dated single-family houses, 1,797 were built in the 1950s and 840 in the 1960s, with a median of 1958. Capital Plaza, between I-35 and Cameron Road, was finished in 1960, and Reagan High, now Northeast Early College High, opened just to the north in 1964.
The lot is the asset. The median single-family lot is 8,819 square feet, against 2,597 at Mueller across 51st Street, and 99% of them are at least 5,750. SF-3 covers about 55% of the zoned land. The 2007 plan adopted secondary apartments of up to 850 square feet on lots of 5,750 or more, and HOME, adopted in 2023 and 2024, now allows up to three homes on an SF-3 lot and a house on 1,800 square feet. The plan found every University Hills subdivision deed-restricted to one home a lot, which is why only Windsor Park took the secondary apartment option; the City's HOME page warns that deed restrictions can still limit a project, so the title is worth reading. Change has been slow so far: 37 of the dated houses were built in 2015 or later.
The price is the other reason to look. Zillow's typical Windsor Park home, on its own boundary, was $446,063 in August 2026, lower than a year earlier, against $708,086 for its Mueller: a gap of about $262,000, for a lot three times the size. It peaked at $647,203 in June 2022. On the 2025 rates a homestead at Zillow's figure owes the five taxing units about $6,920 a year, and without the exemption about $9,129; the citywide arithmetic is on the Austin page. What the price does not buy is a walk to much. The Mueller H-E-B and Dell Children's are about two kilometers south across 51st Street, and the plan wanted Capital Plaza and Windsor Village, the small center on Berkman Drive at Westminster, rebuilt as mixed-use centers.
The creeks decide some blocks. On the City's floodplain layers, drawn on Atlas 14 rainfall, the 25-year and 100-year floodplains along Tannehill Branch and Fort Branch cover about 169 acres, 11% of the planning area, and 230 of the 2,902 house lots, 137 of them in the 25-year area. FEMA's map puts 140 in its 1% annual chance area. Westminster, Broadmoor, Belfast and Wellington drives have the most. Across 51st Street, none of Mueller's house lots is in it.
The people have changed more than the houses. The census counted 15,086 residents in 2010 and 14,833 in 2020, while homes rose from 6,528 to 6,562, and the Hispanic share fell from 48.6% to 43.2%. Six in ten occupied homes are rented. Schools weigh on the choice: most residents are zoned to an elementary rated D and a middle school rated F for 2025, and the plan itself recorded that schools were seen as the main reason young families left or stayed away. Route 300 runs on Cameron Road and 51st Street, and Highland station on the Red Line is about four kilometers by road.
- Pull the City's floodplain map for the address, above all on Westminster, Broadmoor, Belfast and Wellington drives
- Check the zoned schools on Austin ISD's 2026-27 map: Harris or Andrews and Webb for most blocks, Blanton and Lamar for the rest
- Ask what HOME allows on the lot, and read the title for deed restrictions
- Work the tax out on your own price, because the seller's capped value ends with the sale
How Windsor Park got here
- 1928The year the City's parks layer gives for acquiring the land of Bartholomew District Park; the 2007 neighborhood plan says instead that the park was dedicated in 1958, and this guide does not settle the difference.
- 1950sHouses begin to go up on farmland that grew maize, corn and sorghum. Wheless Lane keeps the jogs of the farm road it was, and the Windsor Park subdivision of the late 1950s lays one-story ranch houses on a grid. The appraisal roll dates 1,797 of today's single-family houses to the decade.
- 1960The Capital Plaza shopping center between I-35 and Cameron Road is completed, the area's first large center, four years before Hancock across the interstate.
- 1964Reagan High School opens just north of Windsor Park in the fall, then Austin's newest high school; its football team wins state titles in 1967, 1968 and 1970.
- 1970sThe school board begins busing students between Anderson High in East Austin and Reagan, which the neighborhood plan says some residents still blame for families leaving the area.
- 1982The 18-hole disc golf course opens in Bartholomew District Park, the oldest in Texas still open, by the City's count.
- 1999Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, across 51st Street, ends airline service; the 2007 plan later gives the redevelopment of the site a chapter of its own.
- 2007On 9 August the Council adopts the University Hills/Windsor Park Neighborhood Plan and its zoning (Ordinance 20070809-055). Windsor Park takes the small-lot amnesty and secondary apartment options, and the plan asks for mixed-use centers at Capital Plaza and Windsor Village.
- 2010The census counts 15,086 residents in 6,528 housing units inside the planning area, 7,338 of them Hispanic or Latino.
- 2012The City takes on the 4.5-acre Tannehill Branch Greenbelt at 2403 East 51st Street, which is still undeveloped.
- 2019On 25 February the school board renames Reagan as Northeast Early College High School from the 2019-20 year, part of its review of campus names tied to the Confederacy.
- 2020The census counts 14,833 residents in 6,562 housing units; 3,579 of the 5,937 occupied homes are rented and 6,405 residents, 43.2%, are Hispanic or Latino.
- 2022Zillow's typical value for Windsor Park peaks at $647,203 in June. The City adds Westminster Pocket Park, 1.4 acres at 5900 Westminster Drive.
- 2023On 7 December the Council adopts HOME Phase 1, allowing up to three homes on a lot zoned SF-1, SF-2 or SF-3; Phase 2 follows on 16 May 2024 with a 1,800-square-foot minimum lot.
- 2025On 20 November the Austin ISD board votes to close ten schools, among them Winn Montessori, whose zoned students go to Andrews or Pecan Springs from 2026-27.
- 2026Zillow's typical value stands at $446,063 in August, against $454,576 a year earlier.
Bartholomew is the neighborhood's park, and the rest are pocket parks
The City's parkland inside the planning area comes to about 66 acres, and Bartholomew District Park is 57 of them: at 51st Street and Berkman Drive, with Bartholomew Pool, a splash pad open from May to October, fields, courts and an 18-hole disc golf course opened in 1982, the oldest in Texas still open by the City's count. The rest are pocket parks on Westminster Drive, Patton Lane and Sweeney Lane and the undeveloped Tannehill Branch Greenbelt. East of Northeast Drive, Dottie Jordan Park in University Hills adds a pool and a walking trail.
What the map does not show: the sources disagree on Bartholomew's age. The City's parks layer gives 1928 for the land and the 2007 plan says the park was dedicated in 1958, and this guide does not settle it. Mueller's lake park and greenbelts, across 51st Street, are open to everyone.
Elsewhere in Austin, not Windsor Park
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Every gym within reach
No City recreation center with a gym stands inside the planning area. Bartholomew Pool on 51st Street is the one City pool, the Dottie Jordan Recreation Center in University Hills has another but keeps weekday hours, and the nearest indoor gym is the Virginia L. Brown Recreation Center, north of US 290.
- Bartholomew Pool, 1800 East 51st Street: $5 for a resident adult from spring break through October
- Virginia L. Brown Recreation Center, 7500 Blessing Avenue: gym and weight room, closed on Sunday
- Dottie Jordan Recreation Center, 2803 Loyola Lane: weekdays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Bartholomew Pool open | The City's pool at 1800 East 51st Street, in Bartholomew District Park: 25 yards and four lanes, with the lap pool kept open from October to March while the recreational pools close, and $5 a day for a resident adult from spring break through October. | 4–6 min |
| Dottie Jordan Recreation Center open | The City's center at 2803 Loyola Lane in University Hills, open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and closed at weekends, with a swimming pool, two lighted tennis courts, a lighted basketball court and a walking trail. It lists no gymnasium or fitness room. | 5–7 min |
| Virginia L. Brown Recreation Center open | The nearest City center with an indoor gymnasium and a weight room, both open to the public, at 7500 Blessing Avenue north of US 290. Open to 9 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 6 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday; closed on Sunday. | 6–8 min |
| John Gaines Pool open | One of the two Mueller association pools south of 51st Street, open to the public for a per-use fee from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend. | 6–9 min |
| Bartholomew District Park open | The free option: the 18-hole disc golf course, opened in 1982 and by the City's count the oldest in Texas still open, and the park's fields and courts. | 4–6 min |
| Givens Recreation Center closed | The City's center at 3811 East 12th Street, with a full-size gymnasium and a weight room, closed for renovation since 14 February 2025; its programs moved to the Chestnut House at 1183 Chestnut Avenue. | 8–12 min |
The free option is Bartholomew's disc golf course and fields.
Most blocks go to Harris or Andrews and then Webb, rated D and F for 2025
Schools are the Austin Independent School District's. On its 2026-27 boundaries the elementary is Harris for 6,422 of the 2020 residents, Blanton for 6,053 and Andrews for 2,358 in the east, where four blocks moved to Andrews when Winn Montessori closed. The Harris and Andrews blocks go on to Webb Middle, rated F for 2025, and the Blanton blocks to Lamar Middle, rated A; Harris and Andrews were rated D and Blanton B. Most blocks then go to Northeast Early College High, the former Reagan, and the Andrews blocks to LBJ Early College High, both rated C.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Harris Elementary School | Austin Independent School District | Thomas G. Harris Elementary: the zoned elementary for 54 census blocks and 6,422 of the 2020 residents on the district's 2026-27 boundaries. Its school page gives 6105 Berkman Drive and the boundary layer 1711 Wheless Lane. Pre-kindergarten and dual language; rated D for 2025. |
| Blanton Elementary School | Austin Independent School District | Annie Webb Blanton Elementary, 5408 Westminster Drive: the zoned elementary for 68 blocks and 6,053 residents, mostly in the south of the planning area. Pre-kindergarten to fifth grade, with dual language; rated B for 2025. |
| Andrews Elementary School | Austin Independent School District | Fanny M. Andrews Elementary: the zoned elementary for 14 blocks and 2,358 residents in the east, 197 of them in four blocks newly reassigned to it for 2026-27, when Winn's zone was split between Andrews and Pecan Springs. Its school page gives 3500 Susquehanna Lane, Winn's address, while the boundary layer still gives 6801 Northeast Drive. It carries out Winn's state-mandated turnaround plan; rated D for 2025. |
| Webb Middle School | Austin Independent School District | 601 East St. Johns Avenue, north across US 290: the zoned middle school for the Harris and Andrews blocks, 8,780 of the 2020 residents. It runs an English Language Development Academy; rated F for 2025. |
| Lamar Middle School | Austin Independent School District | 6201 Wynona Street, west across I-35: the zoned middle school for the Blanton blocks, 6,053 residents, and the district's middle-school Fine Arts Academy; rated A for 2025. |
| Northeast Early College High School | Austin Independent School District | 7104 Berkman Drive, just north of US 290: the zoned high school for 124 blocks and 12,475 residents. Opened as Reagan High in 1964 and renamed in 2019; an early college with Austin Community College and a P-TECH program with Dell; rated C for 2025. |
| LBJ Early College High School | Austin Independent School District | 7309 Lazy Creek Drive: the zoned high school for the 14 Andrews blocks, 2,358 residents, an early college with Austin Community College; rated C for 2025. |
| Winn Montessori Elementary School | Austin Independent School District | Closed. The elementary at 3500 Susquehanna Lane closed at the end of 2025-26 after the board's November 2025 vote. Its zoned students were reassigned to Andrews or Pecan Springs by address, and its Montessori program became a strand at Reilly Elementary. |
Check the exact address on the district's 2026-27 boundaries before you commit. The district's pages give two addresses each for Harris and Andrews, so confirm the campus too. Transfers open in February and depend on space.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- The appraisal district values every house as of 1 January, and a new owner's 10% homestead cap starts only on the 1 January after the exemption is granted
- Highs near 17 °C and lows near 5 °C at Camp Mabry, with about five nights at or below freezing on the 1991 to 2020 normal
- Enroll Austin opens for Austin ISD's magnet, dual language and academy seats
- Austin ISD's general registration and transfer window opens; most blocks here are zoned to an elementary rated D and a middle school rated F for 2025
- 48 mm of rain on the normal, the driest month, and highs near 19 °C
- Bartholomew Pool keeps its lap lanes open through the winter
- The general transfer window closes; transfers depend on space and are not guaranteed
- Highs near 23 °C and 73 mm of rain
- Bartholomew Pool starts charging with Austin ISD's spring break: $5 a day for a resident adult
- Notices of value arrive in spring; the seller's capped value is no guide to a buyer's, because the cap ends when the owner stops qualifying
- Highs near 27 °C and 61 mm of rain
- No night at or below freezing on the April normal
- 128 mm of rain on the normal, the wettest month of the year
- 230 of the 2,902 single-family lots lie in the City's fully developed floodplain along Tannehill Branch and Fort Branch, 137 of them in its 25-year floodplain
- The Bartholomew splash pad opens on 1 May, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. through September
- Highs near 34 °C, with about 24 days at or above 32 °C
- Mueller's two association pools, south of 51st Street, are open to the public for a fee from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend
- The Dottie Jordan Recreation Center's pool is in University Hills, and the center keeps weekday hours only
- Highs near 36 °C and about nine days at or above 38 °C (100 °F)
- The Windsor Park branch library on Westminster Drive stays open to 8 p.m. Monday to Thursday
- 50 mm of rain, one of the drier months
- The hottest month at Camp Mabry: highs near 37 °C and 13 days at or above 38 °C
- The University Hills/Windsor Park plan and its zoning were adopted on 9 August 2007
- 2026-27 is the first school year with Winn closed and its zone split between Andrews and Pecan Springs
- Highs still near 33 °C and 88 mm of rain
- About 20 days at or above 32 °C on the normal
- Bartholomew Pool's summer schedule runs to 30 September
- The taxing units settle their 2026 rates: the City's is 0.579948 per $100, against 0.524017 for 2025, and Austin ISD has proposed 0.9184, against 0.9252
- 99 mm of rain on the normal, the second-wettest month, and highs near 28 °C
- The splash pad closes and Bartholomew Pool's paid season ends with the month
- The school board voted on 20 November 2025 to close ten schools, Winn Montessori among them
- Highs near 22 °C and 74 mm of rain
- Less than one night at or below freezing on the normal
- The Council adopted HOME Phase 1 on 7 December 2023, allowing up to three homes on a lot zoned SF-3, which is about 55% of the zoned land here
- Only 28 of the single-family houses on the appraisal roll were built in 2020 or later
- Highs near 18 °C and about three nights at or below freezing
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