Live in Harlandale

Harlandale was mostly farmland south of the city when, in 1930, the San Antonio Express reported three factions there, independents, do-nothings and annexationists, fighting over whether to become a city of its own. The City annexed it in 1940 and took in more of the farmland around it into the 1950s. This guide covers the area the Harlandale-McCollum neighborhood association registered with the City in 2021: about 4,532 acres from Burcham Avenue to Ashley Road and from Interstate 35 to the San Antonio River, with both of the district's comprehensive high schools inside it. The 2020 census counted 27,018 residents there, 1.8% fewer than in 2010. It is not the school district, which covers about 60,000 city residents.

Most people own, and many own outright. Owners lived in 62% of the 8,792 occupied homes in 2020, and 2,785 homes were owned free and clear, more than the 2,709 with a mortgage. No price index follows the association's line. Zillow's figure for ZIP code 78221, which holds 89% of the residents and runs south past the boundary, was $176,880 in August 2026, down 3.6% on the year; the northeast corner, in 78214, was $137,401. The Bexar County median sale was $280,999.

The school rate is the county's highest, and the homestead exemption does most of the work. Every home here is in Harlandale ISD, whose 2025 rate of 1.2575 per $100 is the highest of the twelve school districts on the county's table, and the seven units together charge 2.542774. The state's $140,000 school exemption comes off first, so a homestead at the 78221 figure pays about $464 to the district and about $2,332 a year in all, while a landlord pays about $4,498. The exemption is not automatic, and a long-held house can be taxed on far less than its value until it sells; the city's own example is on the San Antonio page.

The airport and the creek are inside the line. Stinson Municipal Airport, where the Stinson family opened a flying school in 1915, sits on the east side along Mission Road; it is the second oldest general aviation airport in continuous use in the country. FEMA's effective map puts 6.9% of the area in the 1% annual chance flood zone, along Harlandale Creek and by the river, and census blocks holding 479 residents have their centers in it. One of the City's mapped low-water crossings is inside the boundary, and flash flooding reaches well beyond the mapped zone.

Getting around is by bus or by Interstate 35. VIA's 44 runs up Pleasanton Road past the neighborhood's center, the 43 along South Flores Street and the 46 on Commercial Avenue, and Primo 102 crosses the north side on Military Drive every 12 minutes on weekdays, with seven stops inside the line. Downtown is about 9 km north in a straight line. University Health opened its Vida clinic on Jaguar Parkway, south of the boundary, in November 2025, and plans a hospital with a 24-hour emergency department beside it in 2027; until then the nearest general hospital this guide could source is Mission Trail Baptist at Brooks, east across the river.

What this guide could not settle is the schools. Harlandale ISD publishes no attendance-zone map that could be read, so no zoned campus is given here for any address. A small strip by the river, 217 residents, falls in the City's Mission Historic District, where exterior work needs the Office of Historic Preservation's approval.