Four buzzy Austin neighbors – Cedar Park, Georgetown, Round Rock, and Taylor – have unlocked coveted spots in a new SmartAsset ranking of the safest suburbs in America for 2025.Cedar Park is Austin's No. 1 safest suburb, and it came in at No. 55 in the national rankings. Georgetown followed at No. 7

Some millennial Austinites already dread being locked in as renters for the rest of their lives. Now a new SmartAsset housing study has unearthed a surprising statistic that backs that fear up: Only 3.26 percent of Austin's millennial population used conventional mortgages to buy homes in the metro

Austin and three other Texas cities were just hailed in U.S. News & World Report's new rankings of the best places to live for their high quality of life.This new list, published July 11, is part of U.S. News' Best Places to Live rankings, but the 25 cities that made the list were chosen solely base